INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15316, 11 September 1920, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

— ♦' „ ' ' ■ (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Before the Arbitration Court the payment of 12 months' half pay as a lump sum was agreed upon by the parties in the case Sutton against the , Union Steam Ship Co. Plaintiff fell off a boat into the sea and received a shock which affected his heart. The company had been paying t compensation, but plaintiff ' now desired a lump sum. Judgment was entered for £128 14s. HUNTLY, this day. •The Town Board, in' the midst of the coalfield, is hard pressed to get sufficient fuel to keep. -the lighting services going.* There was no change in tka coal situation to-day. PALMERSTON N,, this day. A returned soldier, William Henry Whiting, aged 24, whose widowed mother resides at Palmerston North, was killed at a sawmill at Tangawai^ <m the Main Trunk line, on Wednesday.- The deceased, while • riding on a bush tram, fell under a truck. Hif body was terribly mutilated. He went to the front with the Third Reinforcements; he was wounded four times, and was awarded the Military Medal.' •.WELLINGTON, this rtay. A claim was recently made that the Shire line huilt the first steamer specially constructed for the. New Zealand refrigerating* trade. This was the Ellerslie, which was launched in April, 1884. The New Zealand Shipping Co., however, points out that the Tongaiiro, Aorangi and Ruapehu. specially built by it for this trade, had all been launched in 1883. The firstnamed was off the stocks eight months before the EllerslieDUNEDIN, this day. In reply to remarks made on Thursday at a conference of technical education representatives and Professor Boys, with the head of the domestic* science school ai Otago University, ifc was point-? ed out that no profession exists for training teachers in any secondary school although tho need for it lias been urgently felt for some time, and been, stressed many times by Mr Han an. formerly Minister of Education. Tho university authorities. feel that it is tha duty of the* Education Department, not tho university, to establish training colleges for teachers. It was generally' recognised that students at the Otnpo domestio science school had been excellently treatod so far as that science is concerned. The Otago Education Board,' realising tho. needs of the Dominion, recently granted facilities to domestic science students to prnotiso the teaching of cooking'. THE SHAREMARKET. WELLINGTON, this day. Banks— New Zealand, soller 5555; Union, buyer 280s, seller 2905: Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., buyer 475; insurnnco—New Zealand, seller 31s;' South British, seller 197s 6d; Huddart, Parker Co.. buyer 565, seller 56s 9d; Bums, Philp, buyer 425; Howard Smith nnd Co., buver 465; Leyland's, buyer 355, seller 365. . —Herald Special.