CONDENSED NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17526, 1 May 1925, Page 5

CONDENSED NEWS.

OVERNIGHT SUMMARY. i -v m ! At a meeting of the Canterbury I School Committees Association" last * ; inght. letters were received from several ! country school committees, stating that t . they were against raising the school 1 ; leaving age to sixteen vears for country school* * *•* Christf/hur'd brae , the League . : i Nations Union was held in th on Wcdne.-'ia-' cvetiing In spite of the fil counter-attraction the municipal election figure ;, a Z'mxl attendance was ' present to hear address of the president Piofesi-or J B. CundHfte. who ;< spoke on the International Labou' Ur- .• , ganisation. Although workmen at feiwyq Huts have been working at the outlet of i the lake, there are no signs of the A water lowering round this part oi the lake. If the lake wav to I owe; now it would spoil the opening of the shoot- ] ing season, as there is ever;, indication of it being a good one The dticks and swans are near the shore, as there is a good quantity of feed. • Work ai the ■ tion erected by the Raugiora Borough 1 Council in Good Street, i.s nearing completion." The transformers and con- ; denser, together with the switchboard I und necessarv instruments have been * installed and the wiring completed It i.s expected that the change-over will I take place early this month. . The question oi the lease of the Christchurch Returneu Soldiers' Association club rooms, which has beer a matter of negotiation between the Nn- I tional War Funds Council and ike association for several month;* past, came before the annual meetingici ‘he association last night. After consider*, able discussion it was decided to accent '■? the offer of the council regarding the lease, namely, that the council should pay the interest on the mortgage on Ll-700 on the club, relinquish ail claims -J to the proceeds from the letting .if Jellicoe Hall, and to give the 1 tion the lease of the club for ten vears with the right of renewal tor a lurt'ner ten years, provided the member- ' ship of the association did not tail i>e- fa I'j\v 200 Ihe amuu.i rental 1.-, to lie ? jJI ; only £s^