GENERAL NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17113, 19 September 1917, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS

—•- -■g The monthly meeting of the Green Island 'P School Committee was 'held last Thursday '-$ evening, being presided over by Mr D. h Taylor (chairman). The acting head master : (Mr Turner) reported as follows:—The aver- '"•.[ age attendance for the four weeks were 325, 305, 329, 327, giving an average weekly attendance for the month of 325. During ; « the month the school was inspected Inspectors Bossence and Don ; and the re- *''■> suits showing their reports are very satis- "J factory indeed. The school band was a competitor in the B Grade band competition. • * The committee desire to congratulate Mr J<Buchanan (the conductor) for tno manner inwhich he has brought the band to its pre- Jj sent state of efficiency. On Friday evening "'' Mr Darling (secretary of the Navy League) gave his usual interesting lecture to a very .' large and appreciative audience in the \-. Volunteer Hall. The school children con- 3 tributed during the month the sum of £1 2s 6d for i dominion parcels besides giving ' treely to the London Air Raid, Fund. The following works have been recently ' , introduced into the Dunedin < Athenaum, >'{ Library :—" Years of My Youth " (by -W. < D. Howells), "Belgium" (Amedee JForester - y and George T. Ordond), " Figures of Seve- • j< ral Centuries" (Arthur Symons), "An ~. Evening in My Lobrary Among the English ,' Poets" (Stephen Coleridge), "Questions of ~ War and Peace" (L. T. Hobhoose), "What " Is Instinct?" (C. Bingham Newland), "Life ' • Without Servants" (A. Survivor), "' Her- *■ bert Spencer" (Hugh Elliot), "Grand - Fleet Days "• (Anonymous), "War" (Pierre -,> Loti), " Sixteen Months In . Four Gorman "j Prisons" (Henry ,C. .Mahoney), "Sjgns of * Vaster Britain" (Wilfred Campbell). Fkv "4 tion: " Myola " ' (H. Musgrave), " The - f Rainbow Mystery" (William Lo Qacnx), -' "Lydia o'f the Pines" (Honore Willsie), v i "Elliott, Limited" (D. S, Mann), "Tha ; Sweet-scented Name and Other Fairy "; Tales, Etc." (Feodor Sologub), " A Hill* g top on the Marno" (Mildred Aldrich), "„» "The Field of Honour" (H. Fielding- A Hall), "Gold Must be Tried by Fire" (Richard Aumule Maher), " Tho Long -* Lane's Turning " (Hallie Erminie Rives).