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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5194, 21 October 1927, Page 2

The medical examination that is necessary for secondary school pupils who intend entering the teaching profession will henceforward bei conducted by the Government Health Department instead of by private doctors, as heretofore, The health authorities state that on being pronounced fit the students are allowed to partake of me superannuation fund without further examination. In the past few days some 200' pupils had been examined in Christchurch, and with a few exceptions their physical condition had been found to be good, and especially was this so in the case of girls, who showed the benefits of a sensible mode of dress and systematised culture,. Dr. Eleanor Baker-McLaglen said that the pupils she had examined showed a disti.net improvement generally on those she had examined when she first took up the work some ten years ago.

There should be a big demand for tliis week’s issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review,” as it is featured with a particularly fine array of topical illustrations. In addition is given away a double-page supplement of the- N.Z. Rugby football team for the South African tour. Racing patrons will be interested in views taken at the Auckland Racing Club’s meeting at Ellerslie and at the Randwick meeting in Australia. The first day’s events at the Auckland Trotting Club’s spring fixture; is also dealt with. The centre pages, are devoted to manoeuvres at Aidershot, Atlantic City bCjauty pageant, and unusual scenes in London and America. The stage, motion picture, and society sections are well represented, and the miscellaneous selection is of the usiual standard.