NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1768, 22 December 1917, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

I±l a speech at the Wellington Technical College, Mr Hunan, Minister, for Education, remarked that it would come as a surprise to many people to know that about one-half of the pupils who left the primary schools last year did not continue their ..education, andof this number, approximately 75 per cent, reached • the age of 14 without having passed Standard VI. This was a most regrettable state of’ affairs. But whose the fault ? The low average intelligence of the children, or faulty instruction? The roll of the Second Division of the New Zealand ExpeditionaryForce is now complete, and the four volumes, containing the names of the married reservists in alphabetical order, may be consulted at any post office. The reservists, have been classified according to the information at the disposal of the Government Statistician, and the classification is indicated by letters against the names. Each reservist should satisfy himself that his classification is correct and also that his address is properly given, in order,'to save himself and the Defence Department trouble when his class is reached in the ballot. the American schooner R. S. Smith, who is now in Sydney, he is responsible for the wrecking of the German raider See Adler. He was one of the prisoners aboard the raided It was stratagem on his part that resulted in his being wrecked off Mopeha Island, in the Society Group. He gave Count Felix von Luckner, commander of the See Adler, a bit of advice, asked for it, as to mooring the raider off the island, and a few hours later she was drifting ashore, and ultimately came to grief. Mr Hugh Gibson, First Secretary of the United States Legation in Belgium, writing in the World’s Work about the last hours of Miss Edith ,Caveil, relates how he was Avitli Von Der Laucken the night Mis Cavell was sentenced, trying to stay the carrying out of the sentence, but met with nothing but rebuffs and sneers. He told Von Der. Laucken that the world would be stricken with horror at the shooting of a woman. • The German officer replied that, on the contrary, the effect would be excellent. At the moment Count-Harrach entered the room, and interrupted their conversation by saying he regretted they had not “three or four more English women to shoot.” A pathetic story is related by a recent visitor to the \\ ooroloo Sanatorium (.West Australia), an institution which has been erected by the State Government. Among the patients are some returned soldiers suffering from pulmonary troubles. Recently they became interested in a hut , situated about a mile away from the sanatorium. When told that it Avas the home of a young, girl suffering from leprosy, (hey immediately began Jo__deyisc means to relieve the tedium of her dreadful isolation. Finally a note Avas sent to the girl explaining the Morse code of semaphore signals. These she quickly learned, and now every day she carries on a conversation Avith the soldiers by the medium of flags. As showing that" the hearts of some of the Avomen in the Wairarapa. are in the right place, a ease that came under the notice of the Efficiency Board is worthy of notice. A small dairy farmer who milked fifteen cows night and morning Avas drawn in the ballot. His . young Avife was in a condition of health that would not permit of her to do the milking and manage the farm at the time. “Give him three months’ leave,” she said, “ and I shall then be in normal health and able to manage Hie farm.” The leave Avas granted. The farmer has since gone into camp, and the Avife is .bravely and patriotically doing the milking and managing the farm in her husband’s absence.

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