CONDENSED NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17537, 14 May 1925, Page 10

CONDENSED NEWS.

OVERNIGHT SUMMARY. The releasing of the cyanide tanks at the Wealth of Nations Mine batier.v killed hundreds or fish in ihe Inangaliua River, and salmon trout as large as IGlb in weight were pick'd up in the siren in Last evening. Ai a meeting of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society last, night, a motion that the. incoming council be asked to consider the possibility of prohibiting netting for salmon in the Waimokariri next season was passed. At a meeting of the Ashburton Technical School Board of Governors vesterday. the director. Mr R_ .1. Thomp- - son. reiKirted on an increase in the roll number ol five, there now being t roll number of 232. No fewer than 141 new pupils, 60 boys, and 81 girls entered the day school this yenr, and 509 primary school pupils, and 16 high school scholars attended each week for cooking and woodwork, and a further 88 pupils were attending evening classes. At a meet in gof the Woolstmi Burgesses Association yesterday, a letter was received from tiie genera! manager of the Christchurch Tramway .Board (Mr Frank Thompson) stating that the cause of the depressions in the tram tracks was the loose metal with which repair work was carried becoming scatI tered by motorists. The roadway between the tracks was repaired in the same manner as the adjoining roadway.