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Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1928, Page 3

There are plenty of evidences of returning soundness and elasticity all round; land is being inquired for. the prices of stock are rising, money is being invested in business premises, even the totaliator is showing n greater abundance of cash ; but tlio position is not yet as sound ns it might be, and a perusal of the banks’ policy might lead to a return of speculative methods and of the financial troubles which at the cost of much travail and) hardship the Dominion is now overcoming. Everyone would be pleased to see a°reduction of lending rates, but some caution is still necessary to thoroughly re-establish soundness.-- “ Taranaki Herald.”

The honour given to Miss Mary McLean, for twenty years principal of Wellington Girls’ College, is especially interesting in that it is, we believe, the first bestowed upon a woman teacher. When n few years ago Mr Firth, of Wellington College, and then Dilate Mr Tibbs, were honoured, the. thought of many was that such recognition of the place of the teacher in society was rather belated. It is time that the head of a girls’ school was similarly honoured, and a better choice could not have been made than the woman who presided so long and wisely over Wellington Girls’ College. Auckland “ Star,”