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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18961, 11 March 1936, Page 15

The Arbitration 'Court, which is at present sitting at Dunedin, believes in doing things thoroughly. In one case where the state of the plaintiff's right eye was the deciding factor in a compensation claim, the bench bore no little resemblance to a doctor s consulting room. The plaintiff was seated in a chair customarily occupied by a member of the court. His Honour, Mr. Justice Pace, donned a pair of special magnifying glasses, and, in company with the other two members of the court, peered into the plaintiff's eye while a doctor who was giving evidence pointed out the injuries the man had suffered.

A proposal that a side-school for infants liqw taught at the Haiti School should he established in the more thickly-populated area of Haiti was referred to-day to Gisborne members of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board, Messrs. T. A. Coleman and J. S. Wauchop. AVhile neither member was prepared to deal with the proposal in detail, without consideration, it was pointed out,by both that it could expect little support from the hoard, and none from the department, as the -Haiti School' is in no worse a locality with regard to the concentration ,ol population than a great number of other schools in the Hawke's BuyPoverty Bay district. The difficulties or sending young children to the school nt Haiti are well recognised, Mr. Wauchop stated, hut they are no more serious jthan those faced by the parents of pupils in many other schools; and consideration of a. side-school project, for any one of these institutions would involve a complete of pdlicy,