NEWSY PARS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14518, 8 May 1913, Page 4

NEWSY PARS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL, i ♦"'■■ ■■ -^

Mr Eichard R. Lloyd, of Karangahake, appointed secretary, and treasurer of the ,Thames Hospital arid Charitable Aid Board. '

Children delighted with their trip to Auckland and last night returned by train cheering and cheering again. Describe battleship as a "bonsor."

Twenty-nine applications from all parts of the Auckland province, received for the position of secretary to Thames Hbspital and Clharitable Aid Board.

There are 61 patients, 42 - males and 19 females, remaining in the Thames Hospital at date. Accommodation of late has been taxed „to the utmost.

The private arbitration case, in which Mr Stanley-Jeffries, the contractor for the building 1 of the Seddon Memorial Technical College, is claiming from the Auckland Board of Education the sum of £15,666 alleged to be due to him in connection with the building of the college, is practically concluded, . writes our Auckland correspondent. Proceeding were (begun- on Saturday, tat it is understood that the finding will not be available until about the end of the present week.

The Short-land and Grahamstown railway stations were scenes of wild enthusiasm last night, as the train with its freight of Thames dreadnought visitors steamed in. The youthful^ passengers were in happy mood", and sent ringing cheers and shouts out Jon the night air, as a signal to j|ai*6nts and friends that they were cdming. Hats and handkerchiefs were waved, as children recognised mother, father, or brother, and a perfect din of noise leigned until each had been claimed ,and talceri home there to racont to eager sisj ters and brothers, his or her city experiences. The sight.was one to be remembered, and a pleasing note* was strutk in the earnest solicitude of flic accompanying' teachers as to their charges' safety, while the railway officials helped considerably in restoring the returned ones to tKeir i respective parents. ' 'What was it like," queried one little fellow of his ! brother. "Decent sport," replied the traveller, with a proud swagger, but wait till I get home and get a feed. I'm starving/ and the two little chaps wandered off home, the one conscious of his superiority over the other in having viewed such a monster'(fighting machine as the New: Zealand, and the other' on the gui ■viv(e to learn of it-he pleasures of the trip and the wonders of the modern warship, which his kinsman had examined with all the fervour of ! youth. The scene of animation soon faded away as the tired but happy visitors filed off for home, and thus ended the 'first, and perhaps the last, Dreadnought visit of Thames scholars. The schools resumed duties today, and on all sides ' 'warship'/ sentences could be heard, denoting the interest displayed in the gift of this Dominion to her Motherland.,