LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 27 April 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Muriipfe At Sciiobl To be in the fashiori at the Bulls school, a pupil ftiust have the' frmmps. For some weeks pdst the uripleasant ailriiSrit has been doing the rounds ahd there is practically no household in the towri that has escaped. Qilite a nttriibet of parerits, have contrdcted the ailnieiit with' scmewhat unpieasarit consequences and have cbirie in for riO end of cnaffiiig. Public Has To Pay The public: has to pay for its privilege of patronising horse racing, butj.t is unconscious of.the exterit to which it ccntributes in. the way of taxation. The recent three -day Easter meeting in Feilding .provided the State with a cheque for taxation totalling £17,187 3s 9d; really the best dividend of the meeting! This cheque was made up as fol- • lows:— Amusement tax, £404 16s 9c>; totalisator, £8905 2s; dividend, £7790 13s; stakes, £36 12s; total: £17,187 3s 9d. Futiire of Liiiton CJaiiip The Mdybr of Palmerston Itforth (Mr. A. E. MaiiSfbrd) has re'deived a letter from the Prime -Mirtister (Rt. Hoh. P. Fraser) Cohfifmiiig that the pr'oposals7 for i|tiiising a portion of Liritori Militriry Crimp to ; edse the housing s-hortage wer# ■ receivirig ihiiriediate and ddre'fui j cOnsideratiori by the iState departmerits dohcerrie'd. * The Mayof o'utlined his suggesti'Oh iri a letter to ' Mr. Fraser on -April 18, arid the reply stated that.a copy df the letter had been forwar'ded to the Min'ister 6f- Wor'ks _dnd to' th'e Vo'mmis - sioher of Wofks for iriirnediUte ihvestigation. Overprinted Peace Stanrps The penny, twopenny, sixpepny and eightpenny denortiiriations of the Ne'w Zealahd jeeace staftips, overprifited for. use iri each" of the Island ferritbries' of Niue, C.ook Islands, and Western Samokj will be placed on sale in the Island territories bn June 4 next.' "From that date they will aisq be on saie at the chief post offices' at ' Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin and Wellington. The four dehominations nientioned are' the ones mbstly in use iii the island d'dpeiidencies and corisequehtly the remaihmg valiieS of the New zeaiand pfeabe series are not being overprinted for lsland use. RailWdy HdUsS§ As far as he' knew, there was no other country iri which such a proportion of houses for railway employees was pfoyided as in New Zeaiand, said Mr.-.K. G. Reid; of the staff br'anch of th'e Railways Tribiinal, replying to Mr. E. Casey, a Tribunai member. The Department, said Mr. Reid,- ptdvided 4182 houses at pr'esent, and at a generous estlmate there would be 12,000 married male employees; making one house available- for every three-' married men. Considerable research had been conducted in'to railway housing, biit the "railway systems, including Australia, the best protision was limited generally to houses for a few •employees in reffidte' or cO'untry districts. Teachers' Errors "A little humour in the letters which teachers write to the Education Board may be all right, but I think that teachers' shoul^l try at least to write cdrredtly," said Mr. A. Thomson, when replying at tne farewell ceremony tendered him and other recently retired headmasters at the annuai meeting of the SoUthland branch of th'e. New Zeaiand Educational Ins'titute. Mr. Thomson, who is now a member df the Southland Education Bbard, said that ohe teacher had Written to the board asking f'dr "a ne^ front wheel.for a wheelbarrow." Another tdacher informed the board that a motioh had been carried unaniniou'siy by nifie votes to two. Diitdh ^Clidcil Children Dutch children who have been broUght to New Zeaiand from Java urider the scheme for .enabling people- previously in Japanese hands td recuperate in thd Dominidn, and who hitherto have, received their education iA Nbw ZeUl'diid sChQSls are now to nave tlie-' oppiortuiiity of attehding specially .established schbols staffed by Dutch teachers. The schools are to be established by the Netlierlands .East.' Indies Welfare- Organisqtioh . for. Evacuees which has as its . pr imary c'pnsideration in taking tms s'fep, 4fhe .pi;ovision 6f eeiifleH scno'6lirlg' fdr children whose, parents^ are^not permahently settled in Neiw Ze'aland.and tehd to mdve ahbuu the cbuntr'y after they leave the camps to which 'they go when they first come here. One secondary school will be at Koloiiie, Mitafnaf , dhd® 0 brihiary schobf at OrbWa Hotel; hba'f Auckland. About 180 evaouees are of school age, 50 of them in Wellington schools. 4