OUR RESERVES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3042, 31 March 1917, Page 11

OUR RESERVES

ESTIMATED IN ACTUAL EXPENDI- ...;-: ;7-v. .: TUBE. .' .•;.■•;. ■;:•. • A return has been presented' to the City Council by the % Reserves Committee, showing the actual expenditure on the. principal city reserves for the eleven months of the financialyear ended February 28, compared with the estimated expenditnro for the year. The return, is ono of great iuterest,_,-inas-much as it shows that /the estimates .cannot ,be accepted as a: very accurate : iuide'as to'what amount of'money is to be actually expended. y ..•.'.-'- : : ... -.The '■■return.'.is ! .as follows:— : ■ ■;:. the.zoo.- ••.••' ..: , Estimate ,:;>...-• v Actual, per year. ■ I'-'.---'.-''.---:.-'..', ' ■ £■■'■■ ■■■•'••£■;■-■ • "aS*.-;.:, 770' , : '-iOOOJ ■•■ :■ -Expendituro;;:;.;.-• 2693 •. :v2038. ■- •#;%- DAY'S BAY. '/■_ '',-\ \ '■ " 397 460 . ■Expenditure ...,'...: 2050 - 850: , ?;.::■ BASIN RESERVE./ . ''-Receipts.;.:..a.;:... 191 • v 250- ..'..... , 639;. :■,. - .730... BASIN -RESERVE IMPROVEMENTS. .......;.... 792 ■ — ' ' 'Expenditure" ...... 86" — . > RESERVES MOTHER THAN MENTIONED, •' ...'■.';' ! ;-.'.\;.'.- 693 ;;. 940 Expenditure ..-'..■ 5516 '...-■ 6385 ' GOLF LINKS (WORKING ' .; v.: v.;account).7 V - ' -Receipts ..;;;..:..'..; 242: ' ' 260 , 480 .. • .320 TherHori' J.^A.-Hanan,-replying to a-question brought before him on Wednesday: at - the Auckland Education Board meeting, said it was a lamentable fact 'that;- so many"of our future ■ citizens and workers wasted the golden time of preparation, between the ages .of .14 and 17.; The compulsory period, : Stopped'.at' 14"years, and between'this and ,17 ■ or 18 .was the most critical ■. time,.'., Many thought their-education-. . was'.finished:when, they left .the/ prim- . v ary school. The education which'closed j 'and'.gave"place to: wage-earning..when. ■ the"boy had reached the.age of 14 fell ,' short of: its", aim. The best results : % would. accrue if it were' continued : three [. or four years'longer. It certainly would .. be better, in the interests of their-iu-' '■- .tufo.;welfare ;and..'.the interests of; the 1 State,'-.if. young.people remained longer ,-. under, authority and instruction - than- ': thex'do; now., It would be some time ; yet before "this idea: gnin'ed 'general- ac- ; ceptahe'e.' He .would like, however, to : see public opinion so educated mid vitalised in order that compulsory day classes.should -be established for young people who had left school,and taken, up employment. Many boys drifted into ' the ..ranks of unskilled' labour—into ■ blind alley occupations—and in times of 1 depression thev suffered most from un- ' employment. The subject called for attention,.

Letters received from France by a recent mail give details of the exploit which won for Pte. J. Fitzgerald, of Wellington, the Military Medal. Pte. Fitzeerald, whose mother resides -in Murphy Street, left New Zealand' with the Mounted' Rifles '. Reinforcemonts, and. went from Fjgypt to Franco as a dispatch runner with the infantry. Capt.-.Tardine, writing to Mrs. Fitzgerald, says that her son was hilled on October 1, during the advance on the Sommo at Eaucourt VAbnaye. He was sent out beyond the position the com--pany had been ordered to take with a message to bring in a number of men who had gone bevond, and were lying in shell-holes and in danger from tho artillery barrage. He delivered his message, and many,men of .the company owp their, lives to his bravery. He was last seen making his way along the line in an endeavour to find more men.: The firing at this time was very heavy; and: Pte. Fitzgerald did not return. A Court of Inquire reported him n'q missing, believed to lie (lend. Pte. -Fitzgerald was recommended for his bravpry, and the Military Medal, was awarded. The deceased poldier was for some vars etnnlnyed by J: Staples and Co., Murphy Street.