NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3587, 15 January 1927, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Reference to what he termed the Jnhuman method of use of the strap for any and every offence was made by Mr. J. Caughley, retiring Director of Education, in replying to presentations from the Education Department in Wellington. Mr. Caughley said he was entirely opposed to the idea of corporal punishment, and mentioned schools where this was abolished and who had accomplished a high degree of oli’ti-ieney. He recalled a case where an irate parent had approached the school teacher concerning a thrashing his boy bad received. The teacher asked whether the father had ever hit the boy, to which the father replied, “No, never, except in self-defence.” The migration of whitebait has ever been an interesting topic to fishermen. Recently Mr. T. MacNoil, who attended to development works on his coal lease at Ton Mile, discovered whitebait above the falls in the upper reaches bf Ten Mile Creek (states the Greymouth Evening Star). They could not get up Ihc falls as the torrent of water was too strong. Mr. Mac Neil watched one day and in a pool at the bottom of the falls in the spray line, clear of the current, lie noticed myriads of whitebait gradually emerging from the water on to the wet, rocky surface with their tiny (ins spread and wriggling themselves forward and up the wet face of about 12 feet, as steep almost as the walls of a house.