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Otago Witness, Issue 3869, 8 May 1928, Page 25

A householder taking part in the election of a new school committee at Grey Lynn drew attention to what he regarded as an act of unfair discrimination (says the Auckland Star). He said that when a sale of work was held recently in aid of funds for improving the grounds of the Grey Lynn School, the children were asked to bring gifts, such as jam. “And each child who brought a pot of jam,” he added, “ was allowed to go home half an hour early.” In the laughter that followed the householder raised his voice in further protest by declaring that it was not every parent who could afford to dispense free pots of jam. Hearty “Hear, hears! ” supported this contention, and in effect the new committee was asked to see that such a happening did not occur again. Evidently the Ranfurly Shield has some commercial value. At a recent meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Rugby Union, a tenderer for the right to sell sweets, soft drinks, and cigarettes in the park for the .season, offered £5 as her contract price. She stated that if Hawke’s Bay won the shield back his year she would willingly pay £lO for the monopoly. Members congratulated the lady on her business acumen and gave her the contract. One member remarked that the offer was tantamount to a donation of £5 to th< expenses of recovering the shield.