NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2462, 3 August 1922, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

New Zealanders consumed more sugar in 1921 than in the preceding three years. The amount per head X>f the total population was 107.31 b. The big sugar consuming year of the past 20 was 1915, when 124.81 b per head was reached.

It is stated that New Zealand will be visited by a considerable number of tourist's from the United States and Canada during the coming season. One party has already booked accommodation at various hotels in the Dominion for January next. When a remit concerning the terra of teachers’ appointments was being discussed at a meeting of the Canterbury School Committees’ Association, it was mentioned that the possibility of woman teachers marrying would interfere with the smooth running of the proposal. “They couldn’t get married if the men didn’t ask them,” said Mr W. Jones. “I don’t know so much about that,” said another member, meditatively. When a debtor’s name was called at the Auckland Magistrate’s Court, Mr Wyatt, for the judgment debtor, said: —“At one time this man was on a farm. The mortgagee came down, took away all his property and his assets. The only thing they did not take away was his tlih-st. Under such circumstances I cannot ask for an order.

“I would like a definition of ‘a capable woman,’ ” said a member at a meeting of the Christchurch School Committees’ Association, when the members were asked to give support to a remit urging that “The time has come to appoint capable women to some high administrative offices of the Education Department.” The meeting decided to support the proposal. “We could not go home if we did not support this,” remarked one member cautiously.