TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21998, 6 July 1933, Page 8

TELEGRAMS

(Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 5. A party of eight officers six men, and two sisters arrived at Auckland to-day by the Rnngitiki with the object of establishing a Church Army in New Zealand, an evangelical organisation of the Church of England. They will start in Christchurch diocese, and remain in New Zealand for two or three years. A man aged 55 described as a gardener, appeared in the Police Court to-day on a vagrancy charge. The police said that the doctors who had examined the defendant agreed that his feeble condition was due to shock caused by cold and undernourishment. The police knew him as a good worker who could not get work. He had been taken to the Salvation Army Home, but had wandered away. The magistrate suggested that it might be better to send him to prison “ so that they can feed him up,” but eventually it was arranged that the Salvation Army should take charge of him. WELLINGTON. July 5. The annual report of the Wellington Education Board states that at the end of the year 239 schools were open, against 242 the previous year. The average roll for 1932 was 27,705, against 28,388, and the average attendance 25,897, or 93.47 per centum, the highest ever attained in the Wellington district. The figures show that the raising of the minimum entrance age to six years had a far lees serious effect than was anticipated, and. as a result of an improvement in the regularity of the attendance, particularly in the last term, nearly all the schools were able to retain their full teaching staffs. CHRISTCHURCH, July 5. The Arbitration Court’s judgment in the Murray Creek gold mining dispute at Reefton fixes the wages at 15s a day, as offered by the company. Mr Monteith, the employees’ representative on the court, disagreed with the majority decision, which operates from April 18, 1033, to April 18, 1934. A cheerful note was struck in the report of the chairman (Mr W. G. Gallagher) at a meeting of the Lyttelton Harbour Board. He stated that an improvement in trade and revenue had been noted during June. The revenue had increased by £984 compared with June, 1932, and shipping had increased by 29,230 tons. This was in keeping with recent increases reported in northern ports, and was an encouraging sign.