THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. THURSDAY, OCT, 7, 1909 DISTRICT PARS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 197, 7 October 1909, Page 2

THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. THURSDAY, OCT, 7, 1909 DISTRICT PARS.

Miss Pine's new quarter for music, painting and infant school begins on October Jtb.—Advt. tt will be seen by advertisement in another column that a 50 acre section at Tuhikaramea is to be submitted by the Commissione'r of Crown Lands at Hamilton on October 22nd. The section is situated four miles from Whatawhata, is well watered and has one acre in grass.

Attention is drawn to the fact that Messrs Smith and Caughey intend holding a special show of spring and summer goods in the Te Kuiti Town Hall during this month. The show opens on Wednesday, October 20th and concludes on Saturday the 23rd. Applications are invited by the Ohura County Council for the combined position of Clerk and Engineer to the Council. Full particulars will be found in our advertising columns. The running times of the Main Trunk second express arc announced in the new railway time-table. The train will leave Wellington at night, passing in daylight through the heart of the King Country. The time of the Auckland departure will be in the afternoon. Providing the train is a success in the summer time, it will be made permanent should its continuance seem warranted. The arrival of the express at Franpkton from Wellington will approximate the time of the Rotorua express from Auckland, and Southern passengers will thus be enabled to continue their journey to the Hot Lakes and the Thames district without delay. With reference to the obtaining of a section in Te Kuiti township for a site for County Council Offices it is gratifying to learn that there is every probability of the matter being natisfactorily fixed up at an early date. Mr J. Boddie, councillor for Te Kuiti riding, has adjusted matters with the president of the Maori Land Board so that the lease of the section can be obtains] at an early date and that the freehold of the property can be arranged for when desirable. Negotiation-! to this end had been commenced by the late chairman of the Council but owing to his sudden death proceeding l' af > h<-"'» suspended. j

The.sitting of the Maori Land Board at Te Kuiti is r.u'.v conchukd and Mr ' A. G. Hoilar.ri. i'rr-d< r.t of the Board.. prorpf'i? to T;.i.;:y,;;ri;;.!;i this afternoon to inFW'i a river c-nc'roafhrr.c ■:,'.. The next sittin;; of t;.'- .Hoard :.i To Kuiii wiil probably be h<dd immediately after Christmas. Probably never before has the East Road been in such a terrible state as it has got into this winter, says the Stratford Post. The negotiation of the Strathmore and Whangamomona saddles has been a task almost more formidable and certainly more risky to life ; and limb than a trip'round the world in \ a "wind jammer." The endurance of the men who are constantly driving on the road is wonderful. Native school teachurs have been given a bint as to the line of policy to be adopted with regard to the difficult and delicate problem of tohungaism, In a circular letter. Sir E. O. Gibbes. Secretary for Education, says: "The attitude that teachers must take up in respect to tohungaism must necessarily depend agreatdeal upon circumstances, but seeing that their principal business is the maintenance of efficient schools, it may be said generally that this object will not be promoted by any action on their part that would directly ofTend the prejudices of the Maoris. It will probably be necessary for them, as a rule, to treat the tohunga question with a very light hand. The aim should be to overcome the difficulty as a whole in time by means of steady, patient, well-directed effort : towards the general enlightenment of the people. Nevertheless, the professI ing or pretending to possess superj natural powers in the treatment or cure of any disease is a matter that ; may well be found to interfere prejudicially with the duty, which is also cast upon teachers, of caring for the sick, and therefore, if any flagrant case of the kind should come under their notice it should be reported to the Department, with as much circumstantial detail as will afford the means of determining whether or not a prosecution should be initituted, In other direcrtions, offences against the Act are not the concern of teachers." The Taranaki Petroleum Company "s No. 3 well, where the fire occurred recently, is again yielding a fair qantity of oil. On Thursday, after a spontaneous flow of about two barrels, a blowout occurred throwing oil over the derrick. Since then flowing has prvoc:eded intermittently.