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Levin Daily Chronicle, 4 May 1918, Page 4

) Sir .Tosepli Ward yesterday announced that trustees in estates, provided tlio security was ample and the banks concerned approved, would be empowered to invest surplus moneys in local war loans. "Our faith in education'' .vas the title of an address delivered by Professor T. A. Hunter at the Alexandra Hall. Wellington, under the auspices of ilie Social Democratic Party. In the course of his remarks. Professor Hunter said that the prisent inadequate schooling accommodation and the under-pay-inent of teachers, ami the consequent a ('t rior type of teacher, were the result of an indifferent public. It was no use blaming Ministers or Governments, for the simple reason that if there was sufficient public pressure the a.iiiiisiir v. ould respond to the pressure. He w: of opinion that a £5.000.000 educalio-,, vole was not too much to ask for the educational needs of this country. This country was going back instead of ieading. The medical inspection was a farce considering the number of children attending the schools and the actual number inspected. In referring to the courage displayed by «S'ew Zealanders at the front. JJi ahop Clonry gave some personal reminiscences last night at the Anzac 7.7 ay smoke concert at the Town Hall. He said that on one occasion the front Xev.Zealand line was being so heavily shelled that the air was ''alive with she]]" and the line was being torn to pieces. In one place, where the carta was iying up like geysers, he saw six Xew Zealand soldiers. Four were playing -arils, and the other' two were discii-s----ing the merits <rl' a New Zealand racehorse. lie had been asked if the "grouser'' was not a "bit of a v.as iter?" He was not. The "grou-ei" was a man who boiw the higge.-t trials like a hero, and the smallest t? <■ 115■ 11 ; | like a child, lie would I'm , a boa wiiaour a tremor, but would groan at the

sting' of a mosquito.