Local And General

Chronicle (Levin), 4 November 1949, Page 4

Local And General

Disinhjeritance. "Disinheritance, even from our working-class point of view would be. abnoxious," said the Post-master-General, Mr. Hackett, when asked whether he believed. in the right of inheritance. Saying he hau. noc previously heard the "disinheritanee bogy" raised in the present campaign, Mr. Haekett added that people with money had to pay death duties. Methodism In Dannevirke. It is 50- years since the constitution of Dannevirke as a cireuit by the Wesleyan Conference, and in April of 1899 the conference appointed the Rev. M. K. Gilmour as the first resident minister to the church. This interesting event 'in the history of the Dannevirke Methodist Church is at present being commemorated in a series of services and functions. Employers Praised. Employers. had been a great help with equipment and material for classes for appxentice motor mechanlcs, said the principal of the Seddon Memorial Technical College, Mr. H. M. Scott, speaking to a special class held at the college to mark the end of the first year of the daylight training classes. There was no trade in Auckland which had given apprentices such help as the motor industry, he declared. Visiting York Aircraft. A York aircraft from No. 24 Commonweaith Squadron, which is on a navigational training flight from England to New Zealand and return, arrived at Ohakea yesterday at 4.30 p.m. The plane left Laverton (Melbourne) at 9.14 a.m. (New Zealand time) . It will stay at Ohakea until tomorrow morning, when it will depart for Whenuapai. From there the plane will leave for Australia on Tu'esday next on its return flight. The pilot is Flight-Lieutenant Churchill. Man-Made Flaw? Was the white dot un'der the figure "1" in the green health stamp, which started the biggest rush among philatelists in health stamp history, retouched out by •the printer? Mr. Campbell Pater- / son, Auckland authority on New Zealand stamps, believes this may be correct. "Under a glass, the place where the dot should be looks rather as if retouching had been done," he says. "There are, by the way, 46,666 of these "no dot" stamps."

Scout Jamboree. A proposal to hold a South Pacific scout jamboree in Canterbury next year as a centennial event was approved at a meeting of citizens in Christchurch. The County Scout Commissioner (Sir Joseph Ward) said that about 6000 to 7000 scouts from New Zealand, Australia, and countries bordering the Pacific were likely to atten'd the first jamboree in New Zealand for 24- years. The meeting recommended to the Dominion headquarters of the Boy Scouts' Association that the jamboree should be held from mid-January onward. Modern Education. • "I think my toias would be towards frills, provi'ded they are not too frilly," said Mr. R. R. Beauchamp, National candidate for ' Lyttelton, in an election address at Cashmere, when a questioner asked his views on education. The questioner said that Standard VI pupils today were- equivalent to Standard V pupils 15 years ago. "Education has change'd and the accent is placed on whafe we might call frills — civics, how the police force works, Woodwork, etc.," said Mr. Beauchamp. "If they tare able to repair a lavatory when it goes- wrong, or mix a taits of paint for the house, and consider sensibly some of the everyday problems which confront us, i think one can forgive the undoubted facts that their writing is abominable, their spelling bad, and their arithmetic negligible."