LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1419, 22 April 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Maheno, with mails aboard from via tinm, and from Australia, arrived in Auckland at noon yesterday. Thi) Wellington and southern portion «l the mails will arrive here by the Main Trunk express to-iiay.

The Postmaster-Gt'iit'ial has arranged formally to open the- new po>t ollice buildin It at l'orirua on Wedne.-day, at 3 p.m.

"Ari'aiiKPmeuls havo boon completed with tho City Council Library Committee," siys Mr. W. T. (Jrundy, headmaster of Ihe Clyde tjuay School, in his annual report to the eommittc-e, "to send supplies of library books (o the various elates from Standard HI upwards. Teachers and scholars are taking- a lively interest in this movement, which we hope may spread throughout the schools in tho i-ity ami suburbs and eventually even to remote country schools. Thanks to the courtesy and kindness of Mr. Unillie u-hief librarian) and Mri. SievwrigM. the lady in special charge of the children's' branch of the Public Library, very careful selection of books have been made by tha teachers of the classes interested, anil those will shortly bo in the hands of the children. lam very hopeful of good results from this movement, which will place the healthiest and best of good literature within tho reach of our pupils, thereby stimulating in them a love of reading which will be of everlasting benefit to them throughout their lives."

The "Mataura Ensifpi" is informed on good authority that tho Hon. J. B. Callan will be appointed leader of the Legislative Council, with a seat in the Cabinet on. Parliament reassembling.

Yesterday the collection at the. Men's Brotherhood seivice wns .£5 12s. The amount is to be deyoted to the relief of sufferers from the recent great coal strike in England.

An interesting note on the disinfection of schools is embodied in the annual report of the Mitehelltown School Committee. The report states that a system has been instituted whereby the school is disinfected daily by the sprinkling of tho floors each atternoon with sawdust, saturated with lysol or Jcyes' Fluid. To this, the committee believe that the school's freedom from epidemics or serious sickness is due, and they recommend tho continuance of this system to the consideration of the householders and future committees. Tho total cost of this work, including sawdust, disinfectant, and wages to boys for spreading same, onlT amounted to .£1 2s. for the eight months, during which tho system has been in voene.