SOUTHLAND NEWS NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3117, 10 December 1913, Page 38

SOUTHLAND NEWS NOTES.

(From Our Own Corrkspondkkt.) INVERCARGILL. December 6. The forthcoming Summer Show has attracted record entries, the total being 1008, as compared with 951 laid year. The in-croa.-cs are principally in sheep, horses, and dairy produce, there being a slight falling off in cattle. Given good weather, the show should attract a large attendance, the ground being more central than the Queen’s Park, while its larger area admits of far better arrangement than has ever been possible in the past. For the third year in succession, the W.C.T.U. are providing a rest tent, which will ho placed just inside the gates. ’Tito tent (which will be built in lean-to shape) will be considerably bigger than last year, and groat preparations arc being made for the reception of mothers and their babies and small children. A recently-held entertainment netted £l2 for rest tent expenses, and local tradespeople are lending cots, nrams, and gocarts, and no doubt, as in former years, appreciative fathers of young families will do a little towards meeting the expense. The tent was a very groat boon last year, enabling scores of mothers to see the show in comfort while their babies wore safe in experienced hands. A.s before, the rest tent will bo in charge of Mrs James Hunter and an adequate staff of assistants. A new feature of the tent will be a cloakroom. where parcels, coats, etc., can be left and registered for a very small charge. A tea lent in another part of the grounds will also bo provided by the W.C.T.I . His Honor Judge Sim took charge of the Supreme Court here on Tuesday morning. and finished up on Saturday morning. At the annual meeting of the Invercargill W.C.T.U. on Tuesday a balance sheet was shown with a credit balance of over £SO. Mrs M'Kenzio (Northern!), who has been secretary for several years, was elected president, vice Mrs Macalister. who

I declined re-election on account of unsatia- | factory health. Mrs Walker was elected ; recording- .secretary and Si'stcr Moody Bell ; corresponding .secretary, while Mrs Hunter was re-elected treasurer. At yesterday's meeting of the Southland Education Board the following appointments were made :—Gore, Mrs M. Anderson, sixth assistant teacher; Gleneoe, Charles Collier, temporary sole teacher; The Neck, James D. Simpson, temporary sole teacher; Wairekiki, Stanley C. Millar, .temporary sole teacher; Pyramid Siding, Bessie Fraser, temporary sole teacher; Wairaki, Stannard Cole, temporary sole teacher, provided that he spends about a fortnight in Springhills School previous to taking up duties. The South School Committee, being unable to move the Southland Education Board from their determination to appoint Mr .lames Haiti to the position of head master of the South School, applied to the Supreme Court on Friday for an interlocutory injunction against the appointment. Mr \V. A. Stout, who represented the committee, contended that the board had not met the requirements of the law in that they did not send to the committee nil the information they had regarding Mr Ila.in. The committee (should have had extracts from the inspectors' reports, and the fact thai: they were not advised of his grade was fatal to the legality of the appointment. Mr William Macalister said the objection was only technical, as t'ho members of the committee knew Mr Haiti's qualifications. Inspectors' reports were not qualifications, and it would be a serious injustice to Mr Main if a technical omission by the secretary made the appointment illegal. In the case of a transfer j it was nor obligatory for the board to send extracts from the inspectors' reports. The I committee had misconceived its position. ! the board beinrr the body responsible for appointments. Decision was reserved. On Tuesday evening the Park School Committee decided to invite the co-opera-tion of parents in giving Mr Haiti a suitable send-off and presentation after his nia.ny years of faithful service. The recent band contest in Invercargill resulted in a loss of £250. which will require to lie made up by the guarantors.