THE WEATHER

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2719, 14 March 1916, Page 4

THE WEATHER

1> 'SUMMARY AND FORECAST AT 4 P.M. YESTERDAY. Present indications are for variable breezes. •Weather mild and cloudy to overcast generally, with scattered showers, probably accompanied by electrical disturbance in various localities. Barometer unsteady, with a, falling tendenoy. An extensive westerly low pressure area passed in the south on Saturday night, but a sub-tronical "low"/ continuing in the north had a neutralising cffcct, though , cloudy skies and scattered rainfall have been widely reported.' D. C. BATES. Meteorological Office, Wellington. March 13, 1916. DISTRICT REPORTS. (From Our Special Correspondents.) Jfasterton, March 13.—Fine, mild day. Featherston, March 13.—Fine, but dull. x Oreytown, March 13,—Close and dull. ■

"I tope that I shall live long enough;" Dr. Waddell told a meeting of ministers and Sunday school superintendents in Dunedin, "to see a chair of pedagogy established at Knox College." 'Die wish there expressed met. with the hearty approval of his audience. It had boon said, continued Dr. Waddell, that the eisnteenth century, was the ago of man, the nineteenth century the ago of woman, and the twentieth century the ago of the child. The ciiild was everywhere in evidence. When they saw what the State was doing for more secular education, when they saw tlio study that was liccessary before a man could equip himself for a teacher there, that ought- to be a leading to the churches as to' what was absolutely essential in the Sunday school in these days. . He thought it was absolutely essential for the efficient discharge of the ministry that there should be a systematic course of training in pedagogy included in tlio divinity course.

Tho question whether it was good for school hoys to be employed on Saturday mornings and other spare time was briefly debated nt tho Wangamii Magistrate's Court during tlic hearing of an industrial case (says the "Herald"). The Inspector of Awards (Mr. .15. W. F. Gohns) considered it was not good for school boys to be running about butchers' shops and milk-runs. It f;avo them the habit of being always on the streets and did not have a good moral effect. The Magistrate did not apreo with this_ view of tho position. Ho thought it was better for hoys to bo employed in their spare time, lr, was his experience that if they bad spato time some of them would be sure to .;et into mischief. He did :>ot think the work suggested by Mr. G'dins would have a_ bad moral effect, but it was bettor than the hoys being idle and getting into mischief like one instance he knew of, where buys had | been appropriating eggs in 'argc c,ur,n- ---[ tities and selling thoni again.

"Don't kiss each other on the public highway; it's awful to see a woman doing a man's work," is one of tho "Don'ts" of nu Americim college for sirlfc