CONDENSED NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17181, 26 October 1923, Page 6

CONDENSED NEWS.

+ OVERNIGHT SUMMARY, The annual show of the Amber Ley Breeders’ Association wa« held at Amberiey yesterday. j The 1923-24 season of the Lyttelton. Bowling Club will be declared open tomorrow. When H.M.S. Laburnum leaves for Wellington, on November 12, she will carry five Lyttelton. »Sea Scouts with her on the trip. A. grant of £IOO for a teachers’ room at Sumner School was granted bv tho tlon G. J. Pa.tr, Minister of Education yesterday* The Jubilee celebrations of the Greendale Baptist Church were celebrated on Sunday and- Monday last by a series of gatherings. The Greymouth Boxing Association has decided to match Tommy Fairhall with either A. Bradley, G. Eagle or Havilah Uren for December 29. The directors of the Dunedin exhibition decided to recommend to the shareholders that the site for the exhibition should be Lake Logan. A deputation to the Minister of Education applying for increased playground accommodation at New Brighton main school was refused yesterday. A. motion that the Synod is glad to learn of the formation of a council for the direction of home training of children, was carried at the sitting of the Synod yesterday. The Her Canon C. G. Mutter, Archdeacon P. B. Haggitt, and Messrs W. C. Bean and G. ’H. sterling were elected to the Board of Nomination at the sitting of the Anglican Svnod jesterday afternoon. The chairman of the Ashburton County Railway Committee has forwarded to the District Traffic Manager at Christchurch a letter asking for better travelling facilities for farmers who attend the Addington Stock sales. The Canterbury School Committee's Association, at its meeting last evening carried a motion that the assooiaction strongly protests against the proposal of the Government to- reduce tho “ capitation to tho schools by 20 per cent: ' A deputation of set tiers from Mina, a township near Cheviot, waited on the Minister of Education yesterday with an application for a school in their township. The Minister said it would bo better for lira to arrange a busservieo to convey the children to Mackenzie, a distance of about throe miles. Tn a Napier telegram published on August 22, it was stated that a man accused of arson admitted that ho had set fire to the house in consequence of differences with the manager of tho estate. This should actually have been a married rouplc.” and not “ manager.” and this correction is made in ■ justice to the latter. i The annual report of the managing editor of the “Church News’ was presented at yesterday’s sitting of the Diocesan Synod. There was a credit balance of £73 7s 8d on the- year's operations. Tire present issue was 3400 and the paper would shortly be increased in hi a© to twenty-four pages. Regarding the mining trouble, tho secretary of the Mine Owners’ Association, Mr T. O. Bishop, says that tho award for the "West Coast does not expire until November 30, 1924, and the , owners refuse to alter it. as if that were done before the award expired there would l>e no settled conditions in industry. The Town Clerk's letter to the Canterbury School Committee's. Association stating that the association’* request that the concert chamber be made so, that films for school children could he shown, had been referred to the Offices Accommodation Committee, was read arid’ received at its meeting last evening. Members of the Dominion Executives of the New Zealand Farmers' Union conferred with Mr M’Villy, General Manager of Railways, yesterday in regard to reductions in freights on farming produce. Mr M’Villy said that no one would be happier than himself when be was able to get a | balance as between the two sides of | the ledger and then do something -in matter of concessions.