IN TOWN AND OUT

Southland Times, Issue 21661, 24 March 1932, Page 6

IN TOWN AND OUT

NEWS OF THE DAY. School Committee Elections. The date of the annual elections of school committees in Southland has been fixed by the local Education Board for Tuesday, April 26, at 7.30 p.m. in the respective schools. Instruction in Drawing. The Southland Education Board, at its monthly meeting yesterday, granted permission for the Technical College art master (Mr T. H. Jenkin, A.R.C.A.) to visit the city primary schools one half-day weekly to give his assistance and advice in connection with instruction in drawing. * * * * An Exceptional Yield. A remarkable yield of oats was obtained by a Charlton district farmer from an area of approximately eleven acres which threshed out at 135 bushels to the acre. The oats weighed 451 b to the bushel and were a good sample, although in common with the district oats they were slightly discoloured owing to fogs and dampness. The area was sown five bushels to the acre, half each way. No Dearth Of Applicants. Food for thought for those contemplating embracing the teaching profession should be afforded by the fact that the Education Board, at its monthly meeting yesterday, received* no fewer than 94 applications for the vacant position of sole teacher of the East Limehills School, which is Grade I. (the lowest), carrying a salary of £l6O per annum. ■ » * * * * Outboard Events Cancelled. Keen disappointment was expressed last evening by members of the Invercargill Outboard Club when the secretary (Mr E. J. Greenwood) received a telegram from the Queenstown Regatta Committee advising that the outboard events on the programme of the Easter Saturday fixture had been cancelled owing to there not being six competing boats. It was understood in the first place that unless six entries were received no races would be held, but this stipulation was later relaxed in favour of four Invercargill entries and one . from Queenstown. Five entries were duly forwarded to the secretary of the Regatta Committee and the local competitors assembled their craft yesterday in preparation for transportation to the Lake. The last minute advice now received has forced them to cancel their arrangements, but it is still the intention lof several members of the club, accompanied hv their families, to make the trip as a holiday jaunt.

Shades of Ben Hur! It was not so much its venerable antiquity as its unusual design which attracted public attention to a vehicle making its way along the city streets yesterday. In one breath it was suggestive of an old Roman chariot and a modern racecourse sulky, incorporated with which was a vague resemblance to an Irish jaunting car. The bodywork consisted of the back portion of an old motor car, the bloom from which had long since departed. This was ingeniously attached to a framework of sorts, mounted on two motor-car wheels, similarly decrepit. A pair of shafts sprouted out in front and in between these faithful old Dobbin slowly but surely plodded his way. The driver was a youth who, as he sat surrounded by a pile of fruit cases, seemed entirely oblivious to the attention he was attracting from passers-by. Cosmopolitan as the vehicle undoubtedly was, there was no gainsaying its utility, and not unmixed with the stares of the curious was a certain amount of admiration for the enterprise of its constructor.