NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2496, 21 October 1922, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Mr W. H. Field (Oiaki) intends asking the following question in Parliament: “Is the Minister of Finance aware tint; the imposition of land taxation on growing (lax which, on account o! its scattered nature and inaccessibility, is. in the condition of the market as existing for some years past, utterly unsaleable, is forcing fanners to destroy this valuable commercial plant, and so gradually accelerating the extinction of the industry?"

At the meeting held at M-istertnn on .Monday night to discuss the establishment of a junior high school, Mr W. T. Grundy made the statement that the teachers in the primary schools would not sillier through the establishment of a junior high school. The.,teachers of the stlt anti 6t 1 1 standards would in most eases be transferred to the secondary school, and would receive an increase in pity, amounting to at least £SO. At a meeting of members of .-el lool committees in the Masterion district, the board of managers of the Technical School, the Trust Lands Trust, and the Wairitrapa High School Board of Governors, it was resolved: “That application lie made for the establishment of a junior high school department attached to the Wairarapa High School, provided that the department makes provision (1) that the grants to the school committee-s concerned for upkeep of the schools remain unimpaired : and (2) that any teachers who may bo dis placed in consequence of the reduction of attendances at the primary schools shall not sillier in grade or -alary." “We are being taxed on land valuations that are 50 per cent too high,’’ said Mr W. It. Field. M.P., at the opening of the Paraparamnii Dairy Company’s new factory this week. “Those valuation- were made when dairy produce and meat prices were at the peak, and it is a wrong principle that in limes of low prices we should bo taxed at the same level as when high prices ruled." Monday lasi was the 61>t anniversary ol tho fon lining: of llii‘ Hank oi NVw /oakuKi, business having been commenced on Goto ber 16, 1861. in Auckland. That city continued to be the headquarters of the bank until about a quarter of a century ago, when the head office was removed to'Wellington. Swimming as a moans of giving liealth was remarked upon by Dr. W. K. Herbert in the course of a lecture in Wellington. “In my opinion,” lie said, “tin* facilities offered’ in Wellington in this respect are woefully inadequate. A large, up-to-date tepid salt-water hath is. I maintain, an urgent health necessity, for 1 know ol no way in which a larger section ol the population can get a refreshing exercise in as short- a time as in this way. It has been urged that such could never pay, but 1 would suggest that given adequate accommodation "(a small bath would never pay), good management, and a proper appreciation of its health value, il could hardly fail to pay."