IN TOWN AND OUT

Southland Times, Issue 25363, 15 August 1935, Page 6

IN TOWN AND OUT

NEWS OF THE DAY Schoolboy’s Injury. Through falling while on his way to school, a boy named Keith Williams, aged 11, of 237 Dee street, fractured his left leg yesterady morning. He was admitted to the Southland Hospital at I. p.m. and is reported to be making satisfactory progress. * * Hotel Again Burnt Down. Several weeks ago the Garston Hotel was destroyed by fire, and on Monday afternoon the temporary premises built in its place were also burnt down. Shortly after 1 o’clock the postmistress noticed smoke issuing from the house and quickly advised the licensee, Mr N. Green. The building consisted of a temporary bar and storeroom, and it is understood that Mr Green succeeded in getting the till out before the structure was destroyed. ♦ * * * Tree-planting at Ocean Beach. An extensive tree-planting scheme is in operation at the Ocean Beach Freezing Company’s works, where the necessary fences have already been erected to protect the pines through their early growth. On Wednesday the actual planting was begun'in the presence of Sir Robert Anderson, who planted the first tree. The management intends to grow several hundred pinus muricata in a long line between the residences near the works and the back beach, and in years to come they should provide excellent shelter against the prevailing westerly winds and at the same time make an attractive background for the residential quarter. —Bluff correspondent. ♦ * * * Programme for Ministerial Visit. A very full day’s programme has been arranged for the visit of the Hon. S. G. Smith, Minister of Education and Minister of Employment, who arrived in Invercargill last evening. Accompanied by the chairman of the Southland Education Board (Mr S. Rice) and one or two board members as well as his own party, the Minister will leave for Bluff at 9.30 a.m. to-day. There he will visit the Bluff School, returning to the Clifton School at, 10.20, St. George at 10.45, Invercargill North at 11. and Waihopai at 11.45. At each place he will discuss questions which have been the subject of representations to the department. At 12.15 he will confer with the Education Board. The afternoon’s programme will consist of a visit to the Boys’ High School at 2 p.m. and to the Girls’ High School at 2.30. He will proceed thence to the Technical College at 3 o’clock. He will receive a deputation from the Kindergartens’ Association at 3.30, and at 4 p.m. will attend a meeting of the Invercargill Unemployment Committee. He will give a public address in Smith’s Hall in the evening. To-morrow morning the Minister will visit Winton on his return north, later calling at Gore and Balclutha.