NEWS BREVITIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 143, 7 September 1927, Page 1

NEWS BREVITIES

Cursive Writing in Schools,—A resolution urging that cursive writing fnould be made a compulsory subject m all standards is receiving the attention of the Education Department. Fine for Sly-grog Seller.—At the .ore Police Court to-day William Rofcuns was fined £2O for sly-grog selling, onatables rang up his house and purnased whisky. A police raid later repealed a small stock.—Press Association. I T® ac h ep s’ Library. —Further considtau°n of the proposal to establish a . t»T y * or teachers was recommended th Auckland Education Board by department to-day. The board deto * interview the Director of Eduior, who will be in Auckland shortly. Alt/*'.? 8 for W l ian3arei on Saturday.— t T ain arrangements between 'vUk E ? arfi and Auckland in connection jah the football match, Whangarei v. ! OlPura, at Whangarei on Saturday lre advertised in this issue by the Kauway Department. svdn Work.— On his return from JrJ; to which city he had been h a n - y summoned in connection with -ne serious illness of his daughter, Mr. ‘ Robertson last evening received in rty welcome from liis fellow Board** of the * Mount Koskill Road

On Fire. —A wash-house \ fl ll a Bouse in Rowan Street, Hr , Roskill - owned and occupied by liiv,' i \ C * ° was damaged by >’ es *terday afternoon. It is n eC an iron was left EWm v Caused the blaze. The Mount brigade extinguished the fire.