EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27093, 30 May 1949, Page 4

EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

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DUNEDIN, MAY 30, 1864.

Great inconvenience was again experienced on Saturday evening through the failure of the supply of gas. For three or four hours, there was either none obtainable, or only so little as to be practically useless; but about half-past 11 o’clock, there was something like a moderate pressure. We have not heard the cause of the failure.

The Taranaki News of the 19th says: “We have heard it hinted that a proposition has been forwarded to headquarters from this place, initiated by a Melbourne officer, to form a corps of Forest Rangers, well armed with weapons for fighting at close quarters, whose business would be to take to the bush for a week or so at a time and operate in the rear of the enemy’s position and otherwise to disturb him by cutting him off from his supplies, and interrupting his communication. Also, suggesting that an increased pay. should be substituted for the promise of land as being what the description of men required for the service would cofisider more desirable.”

The Arrow School Committee held their sixth annual meeting on the 18th instant, when the following resolutions with regard to the management of the school were adopted: (1) That the school fees shall be Is a week for each child attending the school, and that the money should be paid weekly. (2) That the hours of attendance at school shall be from 10 to 12 a.m., and from 2 to 4 p.m., and that Saturdays shall be holidays. 13) That two ' members of committee visit the school once a week, with a view to ascertaining the manner in which it is conducted, and that a public examination of the children take place every ?ix months. The school was opened on the 19th instant, and is held m full work with an average attendance of 16 children.