BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] SEX IN EDUCATION. LONDON, April 7. Mr Stniitoii-Sbariniin, the educationalist, and the winner of the Victorian Government's Travelling Scholarship, has completed his investigation in America on the subject of education. He says that America and England take entirely opposite views of sex education. America regards is as a subject which the schools must teach, whereas England does not touch Ft. This is chiefly for the reason that tlie English homes and the Churches still powerfully influence English children. These influences, apparently, arc losing ground in Anicrioa. with the result that they are responsible for teaching it.

Mr Stanton Shnrmiin expresses the opinion thr.it, in the hands of the right type of teachers, little harm is likely to result from sex education, lie points out, however, that it is not what is taught, hut tho tone of the school which counts. Commenting on the efforts of Mr Cyril Burt, Psychologist to the -London County Council’s .Education Department, to devise a. method of finding the vocation for which a pupil is best suited, Mr .Stanton Sharniaii says: “The filial judgment must still rest with the parent.’’

Regarding the Dalton Method ol individual time-tables, the object o| which is that the quicker pupils shall not he held hack by the slower ones, Mr .Stanton Sliannnn thinks that there is Letter promise in the Howard plan of combining the teaching with the idea of individual effort. He regrets that Victoria lacks sympathy with Hie training of teachers at the University and High Schools. It had prevented that State, he says, from retaining its lend over other Universities. Tie found this branch of workmaking headway in America, England and Scotland,

KANGAROO LOOSE IX KENT. LONDON, April (1. A kangaroo escaped from a private zoo at Deal and spent three days and nights roaming in Kentish villages, alarming tho inhabitants, most of whom had never seen such a creature. The kangaroo several times held up motorists at night time, bounding away before they were able to identify the 'mysterious “spring-heeled .lack.” 'the kangaroo was finally recaptured. LABOR PARTY. LONDON. April fi. independent Labor Bnrtv conference carried resolutions advocating complete revision of tho Versailles treaty, the withdrawals of the Reparations demands to Germany, mutual cancellation of war debts, full trading and political relations with Russia, a world conference of Socialist Labour and cooperative internationals to resistwnr, and calling on the workers to make clear that they wound meet the threat of war l>v organising general resistance. INFLUENZA DEATH®. LONDON. April 7. There, is an iiilliicnzn epidemic now raging in Glasgow City with heavy mortality. There were no fewer than 622 deaths recorded last week, and 478 deaths occurred there in the previous week. CALCUTTA RIOTS. DELHI, April fi. The gradual return to normal conditions in Calcutta was interrupted bathe attempt of some four hundred Mohammedan boatmen, who attacked the police outpost at Eden Gardens. After tho police had been subjected for some

time to a rain of missiles, reinforcements drove off the assailants with revolver lire, killing one and wounding four. The police authorities state that all is quiet throughout the city. Ruses and trams are runnning normally and the business life of the city is in full swing. Tho military, however, has not yet withdrawn from the streets. BELGIAN FLIGHT. BRUSSELS, April 7. The Belgian airmen have arrived at Athens from Cairo. JAPANESE DISASTER. TOKTO, April 7. Ten fishing boats from Hokkaido c-f>jv-si/.od off Muroran and eighty men arc missing. FTLTPTNO UNREST. MANILA, April 7. A force of constabulary stormed two native forts, killing teen Moros. Ten of the constabulary were wounded. NEW N.Z. LONDON OFFICES. LONDON, April 7. Owing to the inadequacy of the accommodation in the present High Commissioner's Offices, Sir James Allen. under outlioritv from the New Zealand Government, proposes to sell the balance of the 01) years’ lease, wiin a- view to purchasing from the British Medical Association tho freehold, and a block of offices at the corner of the Strand -and Agar Streets, containing six storeys. There is a fine ground floor and show windows. It is reported the purchase price is £160,000, which is much below Sir James Allen’s independent ruination. New Zealanders also regard the acquisition enthusiastically as comparing favourably as regards site, accommodation and cost with other Dominion's offices. TAXI-CAB WAR. HON DON, April 7. 'The appearainc of two-seater taxis rromise.s an interesting traffic wn: The whole of the 9,000 tuxi men have been circularised by the Motor-cah Trade Protection Society, urging a boycott of the two-seater, and asking tlie men not to drive, garage them, nor to purchase goods where they are garaged.

TTFNGARJIAN SENSATION. PARTS, April 7

“ Lo jMqjtin ” states the machinations of the Hungarian Nationalists to remove persons involved in the Hungarian hank note case, whose evidence is capable of damaging them, has been the cause of the death of a Hungarian deputy. According to “Lo Matin ” the Nationalists forced him to open a vein. He was taken to the hospital, and was progressing favourably when he was suddenly seized with violent pains and died muttering that he was dying as Schultze had died. Sehultze. who was involved in the note affair, died mysteriously, hut at the inquest a verdict of death from natural causes was returned. 'flie “Le Matin ” states that n medical investigation established that his death was the result of poisoning, and that the Hungarian Secret Society had instructed the doctor to get rid of him.

SERIOUS SITUATION. DELHI, April 7,

A serious situation ns arisen at Couripore, 25 miles from Calcutta where several thousand mill operatives went on strike in the afternoon, following a reported fatal assault on a coolie by a European. The situation is considered extremely grave. Assaults nre being committed on Europeans of Whom many were injured. Armed police hnvq been sqmmonqd,