NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20003, 31 July 1939, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Dog Pest in Walroa In the opinion of Cr. J. B. Cook, voiced at the monthly meeting of the Wairo'a Borough Council, dogs are becoming a pest on the main street again and a nuisance to the whole town. lie advocated the taking of drastic action, and this it was decided to do in cases where warnings had been issued. —Special.

29,000 Trees Planted On. publicly-owned land in and round Wellington, the Wellington Beautifying Society has been responsible for planting 29,000 trees in the last four years, stated the president of the society, Captain S. Holm, in reporting to its annual meeting on behalf of the committee. It was the society’s desire to restore as far as possible the native covering of the hills of 100 years ago. Maori Girl Nurses Disappointment that more Maori girls were not taking advantage of the opportunity to learn the nursing profession was expressed by Mr. E. L. Cullen, M.P., -ait the official opening of the new Rangi-ahua Native School on Saturday. He added that nursing was one .of the finest things they could take up, and he hoped to see more taking cu this work in the future.— Special. Native School Teachers Referring to efforts that bad been made to induce Maori girls to fake up the teaching profession, Sir Apirana Ng'ata, M.P., stated at the opening of the Rangiabua Native School on Saturday that about two years ago a number of Maori girls offered themselves for native schools, -but about half of them had to give up the idea because insufficient arrangements were made for their -accommodation. If accommodation could toe arranged, he felt that many more would take on the work. Those who had taken it up were doing excellent work.—Special. No Jobs For Brilliance Whether New Zealand really had benefited from sending two Rhodes Scholars to Oxford each year instead of one, as originally, in view of the lack of opportunities in New Zealand for the students on their return, was questioned by Mr. E. T. Norris, formerly registrar of the University of New Zealand, in an address to the Palmerston 'North Rotary Club.’ If the effect of the policy of the Government -in not providing openings for brilliant students who had completed the four years course was .hat the best talent would not seek the Rhodes Scholarships (there having been indications of this already), then -the present arrangement might be a doubtful favour. From Oxford great numbers of young men went into the British Civil Service. Rhodes Scholars could not come back from Oxford to minor positions in the New Zealand Civil Service. There had been a case of the Education Department refusing to recognise a Rhodes scholar’s four years at Oxford with even one extra grading mark. ‘Not ‘Britifeh’ in Outlook” One of the things that surprised him was that 'Americans were not “British” in outlook, but this was understood when one remembered that the population of the United States was composed of a great many elements, said Mr. J. E. Strachan, principal of the Rangiora High School, in -an address to the Canterbury Chapter of the New Zealand Institute of Secretaries, on his recent tour abroad. He expressed admiration of the p-a-rt America was playing in building up a new civilisation, and in adjusting social customs to the new technological environment. Eng. land, to his mind, impressed the visitor because of the impression he gained of -something enduring. There appeared to be great business prosperity. In Germany, Mr. Strachan said he found that he had to readjust his previous ideas. He said that if Herr Hitler had done nothing else he had given young Germans a motive, which they were sadly lacking previously, toeing born as they were after the Great War. and suffering the repercussions of that war although in no way responsible for it.