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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 218, 9 June 1919, Page 4

"I don't say that acid drops cure sea sickness'' mil Bishop Sudlier in an address" to Die Noisun Senior Cfldets, "but 1 <i'o know that during the first few days ot the voyago it wns part of the padre's duly to biiiiu acid drop:, round nmoiif; the seasick boys,'and they derived great comfort from them." A young officer who lias reached England' from the Murman Coast on sick leave and hns volunteered for the Relief Force describes tho country as ono in which continuous twilight and continuous daylight alternate, and tho temperature varies from iifldeg. to <lodog. below zero. The only sport until recently was an occasional shoot of ptarmigan and a kind of hare. Bear tracks are very exceptional. Life indoors is mado almost unbearable by' hordes of big-sized mosquitoes and by bugs. The only device found effectivo for destroying the'l'atter was that of opening doors and windows and lulling them by cold. Finns, Lapps, and refugees from all parts of Russia form the inhabitants; they are being kept on British Army supplies. A pound of sugar thero easily bought a fine silver fox skin, afterwards sold in London for £M. Thero is much privation in tho district, and much stealing of Army stores. Thieves have been known to get .at low tide under a.pier which was under sentry guard and empty boxes into sacks by means of an auger. The great shortage of labour, owing to the stoppage of tho importation of indentured Indians, is threatening tho. colony with a grave crisis (reports the Suva correspondent of the "New Zealand Herald"). Certain visitors have made damaging statements abroad as to tho treatment of the Indians here, and raised a storm of hostility in India among the official natives, which it will take years to overcome. Some of these statements aro half truths—always dangerous. On the other hand, there are evidences of comfort and well-doing everywhere among the Indians., The women—even those indentured—are seen wearing silver and gold jewellery on arms, ankles, necks, and noses, and ears, and many aro dressed in silks. . During their second five years, the Indians can Lake up land, and many have cows and horses, and sulkies, while some, who camo here without an anna, own motorcars. The lack of labour is threatening both the sugar and the copra industry There aro copra estates of great area Ono planter has 68,000 acres undercuts, with hardly enough labour for half that area. The sugar drop this year has been severely affected by hurricanes, so that 'the output this coming season must b& light. A letter received by Mr. Harry li-een ing, of Napier, from his son, Captain CI. S. Kcesing, Australian Engineers, dated London, March 29, states that his dosign had been accented for the Divisional and Battle Memorials, that he was leaving for Franco to choose the sites, and on returning to London would visit Gallipoli with Sir John Gnrnett, the British representative. Ho anticipated that tho necessary work would delay his return to Australia and New Zealand for four months. The Lord Chancellor (Lord Birkenhead), speaking at a meeting in.London of the Barristers' Benevolent Association, said that their profession was essentially a'single-man business, and they had suffered as much as any profession by the wari' For two days ho interviewed for work in relation to courts-martial an incalculable number, of members of the Bar who were, top old to go to the trenohes but to whom the small stipend afforded'a very great temptation. "Our profession," he proceeded, "while it lias dazzling prizes, is in many ways one of the saddest in the world. It is strewn with failures at every stage." Lord Justice Bankcs said that he . wondered whether, in these changing times, they mi"U not see the beautiful Middle Temple Hall transformed into a creche whero female barristers would leave their babies while they went to perform their duties at tho Courts. (Laughter.) Now that the married men are coming back one of the cheeriest sights is to se& "Digger's" children meeting him at the wharf. On tho other hand tho saddest cases in Now Zealand aro those oi the children whoso fathers will never come back. It is for these children that tho Trentham Dominion Scholarships Art Union has been founded. To give them a first-class start in life, is to build a finer memorial than any, of bronze or stone. Trentham Art Union tickets aro only Is. each, aud every shilling is tor tho soldiers' kiddies. First prize valued at. .£IOOO. ' The action taken by Councillor T. Bloodworth in objecting to the Auckland Corporation expending, several hundred pounds on illumination in connection with tho peace'celebrations has teen endorsed by tho Auckland District Council of tho United Federation of Labour. Councillor Bloodworth suggested that beyond £50 the.money could-be better expended, in relieving distress amongst returned soldiers and dependants of soldiers. Tho resolution of the Council of the United Federation of Labour was as follows' "That tho members oi this council endorse tho attitude taken up by Mr. Bloodworth on tho question of peaco ana tho celebration thereof." The uricsts of the 3lelanosi(ra Mission, both white and native, will probably meet at Norfolk Island, in August to elect a bishop in succession to Dr. Wood, who lately resigned (states the Auckland "Star"). They will also draw, up a scheme for tho division of the diocese of Melanesia into two parts, and for tho financial control of tho dioceses thus created This scheme will bo brought before a commission sitting at Wellington later in tho same month, at whioh 'representatives of tho Anglican Church m Australia will lio present, and also members of tho mission. The recent New Zealand General Synod very fully discussed tho difficulties under which tho mission is now labouring, notably the depletion oi its staff aud revenuo by the war, the increased cost of working, tho.need for extensive repairs to the mission steamer Southern Cross, and, finally, tho resignation of. the bishop. Tho disappearance of the German flag from the Solomon Islands hns added considerably to the field of tho mission, and this fact,, combined with the necessity for appointing two bishops and making an the headway lost during the war, has led the administrator of the mission (Rev R. P. Wilson) to make n general appeal for funds to meet the crisis. < The cuestion of the dressing of young children, and tho practiceof sending girls to school with legs bare to tho thighs was strongly condemned at tho annual conference of the Otago brnnohof tho Educational Institute (aiys tho ;Otngo limes). Mr. Tyndall moved: That in cold weather- young children should not be sent to school with the. greater part of their legs bare." Ho said that the tendency of the dress of some unfortunate voun'gsters-especinlly young girls-who oame to school was to keep them in constant ill-health.. Little girls came to ins school with nothing on their legs at all. At the same timo their fathers-great powerful men-did not go out without at east two wrappings round their legs(Laughter). What surprised him wis that the medical profession had not taken tho matter up. Ho could not tap noticing and admiring the Albany Street School Band on the street tho other day, but he would have felt more proud ot them if they bad had trousers on, instead of , tho shorts they wore. (Renewed laughter) He was afraid that, these newfangled methods of dressing', children meant trouble in tho future. How, he aoked, could the poor creatures hope to keen worm when the blood in its passage from the heart had to pass .through a frigid zone? Miss Andrew said that tie expression some of them had .tor the clothing of tho children described was "lamp shades." In a warm climate a certain oxposuro of the legs and body to the sun was beneficial, but in a climate like this tho mode of dress referred to was altogether wrong. One of the medical officers had taken up tho matter in (he north, and how much more necessary was it that tho practice should be discouraged in Otago? Mr. G. W. C Mcdonald said ho had had to deal with this Question of how the girls-nnd especially he younger girls-wwn dressed. No ewher could help noticing how much children thus dressed suffered. Mr. Bennett said there was also a moral aspect. He lintl seen eirls of 13 or U years exposed to indecent remark through this folly of their mothers. Tho motion was carried. The winter season has now sot in, and prospects point to very wet, cold wenflier. Our special display of warm winter Overcoats is worth your attention. TTish-irrndo stylish Trench Coats £1 Is We offer swat value in Coats. Davis and Clater, 21G Lambtou Quay, Wellmgton.Advt,