NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2811, 15 November 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

“We passed a British Cemetery containing 12,000 and a French one with 10,000, all white crosses, and a German one will contain 30,000, but with black crosses. These,” remarks a Wellington resident who has just returned from a visit to the war zone, “give an awful insight into the ravages of war, which we in New Zealand can hardly realise, it seems devilish when you see some of the towns.” The liability of the Government in connection with serious hisses at dried milk factories, as the result of interruptions of electric power, was pointed out at last week’s meeting of the Thames Valley l’ower Board, in a letter from the N.Z. Dairy Co., which stated that in the Awamutu factory oil one occasion the loss was 4,5001bs of milk, it was resolved to urge the duplication of lines by the Department to overcome this difficulty.

A teacher in a coastal town is reported (says the Ilawera Star) to have set out to suppress the slightest sign of the children under his care developing the nicotine habit. in opening the campaign, be asked all those children who had over smoked to stand forward. Aboul 50 per cent, of tile scholars including many of the gentler sex, admitted having at some time or other committed the “crime. ’ He thereupon took on the arduous task of supplying each culprit with six good and sound strokes with the strap. The offence had not been committed in the school surroundings nor was it shown that it had been in practice recently. Alany irate parents resent the action taken, and questions are now being asked as to how far the leacliei s jurisdiction extends.