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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 130, 4 June 1919, Page 8

"Personally," said Mr. A. H. Cockayne, speaking at an educational conference this morning, "I consider that tho greatest danger in any system of elementary agricultural teaching .is to view it from a vocational standpoint. What is needed is a sound uniform grounding in the fundamental principles of plant and animal growth and reproduction quite apart from any attempt at vocational training." A returned soldier named Frederick Charles Gibbe was charged before Mr.' F. V. Frazer, S.M., this afternoon with having attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself. He said the doctor in Auckland had advised him to take a little whisky, as he was suffering from gastritis, and he ascribed his mental condition to the liquor. Ho had been gassed and wounded while serving at the front. He was convicted and discharged, his son promising to look after him. Mr. A. T. Trendle will sell furniture at tho Central Auction Rooms, 53, Cubastreet, to-morrow, at 2 p.m., and on Saturday next surplus stock of a wholesale cabinetmaker.at 86, Taranaki-street, at 2 p.m. Son Pyung Hi, head of the principal native religious sect in Korea, has beon named President of the recently declared Kfinmn provisional cj'ivqcnmeut with headquarters in Manchuria, ■