Loyalty to Empire (and Catlins) carried

Owaka School, Catlins district, just raised to the status of district high school. - Otago Witness, 6.9.1921.

At the meeting of the Education Board yesterday morning, the Hon D. T. Fleming reported briefly regarding the meeting of the Council of Education.

He dealt principally with a motion moved by him that Education Boards, when appointing pupil teachers and probationers, should give preference to candidates who had received their education at the State schools of the dominion. The motion, he said, had been discussed at some length, and was enlarged in scope, the form in which it was finally dealt with being that it be a recommendation to the Education Department to take action to ensure that all pupils entering the teaching profession were loyal. In that form, Mr Fleming said, the motion appealed to every member of the council; at any rate, it was passed unanimously.

Council discusses noisy revelry

Sounds of revelry by night issuing forth from the George Street Hall to the disturbance of the neighbouring residents provided the subject of a good deal of discussion at the meeting of the City Council last evening. The matter was introduced by Cr Scott, who stated that a few days ago a petition came before the General Committee from the residents of this locality, asking it to make inquiries and endeavour to have the nuisance created by the holders of dances, smoke concerts, and other forms of nightly revelry abated. He considered that the matter should be put in the hands of the police with a view to having the trouble stopped. Cr Green pointed out that the General Committee had issued a licence to the school committee respecting the lease of this hall, and a legal opinion had been taken, but nothing had resulted. He desired to mention, however, that the school committee was obtaining a revenue of about £100 from the letting of this hall. After a good deal of further discussion the whole matter was summed up by Cr Hancock (chairman of the General Committee). It had been before the committee on a number of occasions, but nothing had been done except to refer the complaints to the police; a course, he said, that was of no use whatever. The only advice which could be given was for the persons concerned to take action against the offenders.

Print is king

“There is nothing can progress in this world unless it gets into the newspapers,” remarked Dr Thacker MP at a meeting at which the Christchurch Local Association of the Dominion Boy Scouts Association was formed. “It's no matter whether it is getting mud slung at it,” he added, “or whether it is being lauded to the skies. If you don't get into the paper people don't know what is going on.”

How to approach a farmer

A hint to canvassers on how to approach a farmer was given at a Wanganui Agricultural Association meeting. It was stated that to approach a farmer without knowing his name often meant that the latter treated the canvasser with suspicion, and the canvasser failed to get an order. On the other hand, if the canvasser addressed Mr Farmer by his name, the latter became communicative at once, and if he did not know the canvasser personally, pretended that he did, and this helped materially in touching his pocket. — ODT, 23.6.1921.

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