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Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1930, Page 2

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GIRL FLYER’S SHORT’S

AM U SING R EFERENCE

LONDON', August 20

Alias Amy Johnson, who was the guest of Hull Rotariaus, convulsed the party •by relating how she came to wear her famous shorts.

Taking as her text a cartoon published in Sydney, representing her borrowing a leopard skin irom the natives while her own clothes were hanging out to dry behind the Jason, Miss Johnson explained that when she decided on shorts she had to borrow them.

“Since then,” she said, “every gentleman who owns a pair has laid claim to lending them. As a matter of fact, I was sleeping outside a hotel because of the heat in India, and found a pair of shorts and a shirt beside the bed when 1 woke up. I did not know tiie donor, but I proceeded to put them bn. The dimensions of the waist were enormous. Nevertheless, they had to> last me to Australia. “On iny way back a man boarded the ship, and said, ‘I am the man who lent you the shorts.’ I replied, ‘Well, you might, have hnt me your best pair instead of your worst, as my photograph in them has gone round the world.’ My benefactor apologised, and explained that his servant happened to be a Scotsman.”

ATAI EE’S “NERVES.”

QUARREL WITH AIOTHER.

LOS ANGELES, August 20

“I never would strike mother, never!” exclaimed Mrs Aiinee Semple MacPherson, the evangelist, after sending for the reporters to tell them exactly what happened to cause her nervous breakdown.

“We did have a slight argument,” continued Aimee, “but .she got. a broken nose when she threw herself on the floor, face down, in a tantrum.”

Her mother, “Ala” Kennedy, is still voluble about her injuries. She had come to the Amrelus Temple to help out with the business affair.

“I shall be the Mussolini of this affair while you run the religion,” she says she told Aimee. The latter objected when she “fired” some of Aimee’s friends round the temple. “She was furious. She struck me on the nose, and the next thing I knew T was on the floor. So I came into the hospital to have my nose stvaightcened, while ‘Sister’ (Aimee) got her face lifted in the same wav that T had done before,” added “Ala” Kennedy.

EXPENDITURE. The total expenditure on education, including endowment revenue, amounted to '£4,138,577, as against £3,962,279 in the previous year, an increase of £175,598. If from the total sum of £4,138,577 expended on education in 1929-30 is deducted the sum of £443,885 spent on buildings, the net amount remaining is £3,694,692, which is equivalent to £2 10s 2d per head of the mean population of New Zealand (1,472,925) for the year 1929. The cost per head in the previous year, excluding cost of buildings, was £2 9s 3d. The expenditure per head of mean population on the main branches of education in 1929 was exclusive o# expenditure on new buildings as follows:—Primary £1 11 s 9d, secondary 6s 2d, technical 3s, higher education 2s,

INSTRUCTIVE FIGURES. The following shows the destination of pupils who left high schools, district high schools and day technical schools at the end of last year. The figures are exclusive of pupils who left one school to enter another post-primary school. T'lie total number of boys who left school was 6218, and girls 5098. University 123 102 Teaching or training college 118 351 Clerical, Government or local body 421 56 Banks and insurance 190 4 Legal 54 18 Commercial 637 839 Engi neeri ng, surveying and architecture 348 0 Trades and industries 1083 164 Shops and Warehouses 850 532 Farming 1295 4 Home 390 2532 Other occupations ... 209 257 Unknown 530 239