DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL AND RAILWAY.
HAMILTON, June 22. A matter of very great importance to district high scbook was brought up by the head master of the Hamilton West High School. He stated that the Railway Department was cow refusine -to grant free railway tickets to district high school pupils unless they had obtained a scholarship. The fact was that those who had obtained a scholarship did not attend the schooL Half the high school pupils, came by rail, and the new reg-plations, if con- j tinned, -^rouid mean the ruin of the school, j It was explained that the Railway Departjnent did not carry tbe ouoiis free, but debited the Education Department with the cost, and it was presumed that the latter department was responsible for the change. The regulations wore only issued last Tuesday in an Ordar-in-Counoil. It was resolved to protest strongly to the authorities. Statistics inform us that Paris yearly | •wallows more than 300,000.000 oysters, a.n<l , London more than 1.000,000,000. I
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Otago Witness, Issue 2728, 27 June 1906, Page 60
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