AMUSEMENTS MEETINGS; ETC

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 12002, 20 October 1906, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS MEETINGS; ETC

The Turakinu Maori Girls' School will hold the sale of work on Wednesday next. The work, consisting of flax and lace bark kits, etc., will be sold in the school grounds, and afternoon tea will be dispensed. A concert will bo held in the evening in the Turakina Hall. A drag will leave St. Paul's Church for the school at 11.30 a.m., returning to Wauganui before 6 p.m.

There was only a small attendance at the Opera House last nisrht to witness,JJ_; performance given by Professor Czar and his company of wrestlers and weight-lifters. The Professor himself gave an interesting exhibition of posing, showing his splendid physique and enormous muscular development to advantage. With him were a number of young men, who indulged in wrestling bouts, physical exercises, weightlifting, etc. An exhibition of ju-jitsu by the professor and one of his pupils was exceedingly good.

Members of the Technical School orchestra are requested to be in their places punctually at 7 this evening, a.s the music to be rendered next week is to bo practised.

The Brown and Stubbs Assembly held a very successful dance in the Assembly Rooms last evening. There was a fair attendance, and a most enjoyable eveniug was fcpeut by all pre-ent. The catering by Mr. G. Cutteli was first-class.

The annual general meeting of tho Wanganui Sailing Club will be held at the Metropolitan Hotel on Thursday evening next at 8 o'clock. Business— To receive report and balance-sheet, election of officers, and general. Intending membrr.s are invited.

In the House recently, Mr McLaehlan, member for Ashbnrtou, asked the Minister of Education whether he will this session introduce legislation to provide for uniformity of school-books in public schools, so as to obviate the oft-recurring expense entailed on parents who have to remove their children from one school to another? The Minister replied that the matter is being considered in the direction indicated in his reply to a question put by the honourable member for Geraldine on the 19th September. He was not prepared to introduce legislation tl> : s session, or, indeed, at all, o provide for uniformity of school-books until it is absolutely clear lhat it is in the public interest to take away the discretion that Boards of Education now have to ohooi-e suitable books from the authorised list. This will no doubt interest the Aramoho .School Committee and others who have boon moving in the matter.