DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3275, 21 July 1911, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

THE COMING ELECTIONS. [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.! DUNEDIN, July 20. Mr G. M. Thomson, M.P., addressed a large meeting of his constituents at Dunedin North to-niglit. He touched on a number of political questions, speaking strongly in support of the programme of the Reform Party affd announced that he would again contest the seat in the Opposition interest. A vote of thanks and confidence was accorded to the speaker. PRESBYTERIANS AND DEFENCE. DUNEDIN. July 20. The Dunedin Presbytery again addressed itself to-day to the problem of tiie attitude it should assume towards the Government’s scheme of compulsory military training. A motion calling on the people cheerfully to acquiesce in the demands of the Defence Act was defeated and an amendment simply stating it to be the duty of the people to obey the law of the land was similarly treated. A motion that was finally passed by ten votes to 7 was one stating that the Presbytery did not deem it expedient to express any approval of the Government’s scheme. Five ministers asked that their names be recorded as dissentient from' the decision.

HEALTH OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. WANGANUI, July 20. At the annual meeting of the Wanganui School Committees’ Association a resolution was carried that the .Wanganui branch of the 'S'chool Committees’ Association approves of a system of dental and medical inspection of school children and that the cost he a charge on the State.