CONDENSED NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17028, 30 April 1923, Page 3

CONDENSED NEWS.

OVERNIGHT SUMMARY. At a fair held on Saturday afternoon and evening the sum of £l5O was raised in aid of the shelter sheds and maintenance fund of the Victory Memorial School. The total amount of rain registered at Kirwee since the weather broke on April 21 is I.IS inches. Farm work in the district has been interfered with. A suggestion that the mini gaum size of trout to be taken from file rivers should be increased was made to the \sh burton Acclimatisation Society by the Marine Department, but the society. after full discussion, decided to ask the department to leave the size as at present. Th© suggested size was up to twelve inches in nlace of the present nine inches. The North Canterbury School Corn mittees’ Association decided at a meeting on Saturday night to recommend committees to hare fires lit in schools when necessary. Thy discussion arose

out of a letter from Mr J. G. Poison, president of the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute, who stated that in a few cases arbitrary dates were fixed during which fires should be provided, and that caretakers could not provide fires even if the wee*her broke earlier than the fixed date. At a, meeting of the Sumner Burgesses’ Association on Saturday night a deputation was received from the Estuary Improvement Committee Speaking on behalf of the power boat clubs of Christchurch and New Brighton Mr W. J. Franklin emphasised need for an improved en trance at the Sumner bar. The idea was to drive a line of piles from the sandspit near Shag Rock to within a few chains of the Beacon Rock and to connect the scattered rocks lietween Cave Rock and Beacon Rock by means of concrete fillings for a distance of about one and a half chain. He hoped that the Burgesses’ Association would see their way to support the scheme. As the deputation retired at a rather late hour the association decided to hold over the discussion for the first business of the next meeting.