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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 125, 24 October 1902, Page 3

The members of the Motueka Cricket Club at their adjourned annual meeting passed a hearty vote of thanks to Mr G. W. Jenkins, who for some years acted as Secretary and Treasurer and also made him a life member of the club. The compliment was well deserved, as Mr Jenkins spared neither time nor money to advance the interests of the Club. As justifying the action of those responsible for the establishment of the High School here it may be noted that the roll for this branch of the school is now 40. Mr Moftktt, and those \rho were associated with him, may be congratulated on having so correctly interpreted the needs as well as the capabilities of the district. Mr Jennings, who resigned his seat in the Legislative Council in order to contest the Egmont seat, is a compositor by trade, and was for many years a frameholder in the Auckland Star office, where he afterwards became foreman in the composing room. A leader in the Typographical Society, he became very prominent in labor circles in the Queen City. When the great wave of new unionism struck the colony in 1890—91, Mr Jennings was one of the four leadets who floated into the Legislative Council.

In a 1 eport to the Otago Education Board, Mr P. Goyen, Inspector of Schools, stated that the proportion of female to male teachers in Otago was increasing. In 1891 there were 242 males and 272 females, In 1901 there were 190 males and 294 females. For the whole colony there were in 1891 1328 males and 1742 females, and in 1901 1406 males and 2217 females. Mr D. J. McGowan, Government Dairy Instructor, has been on a visit to the Mataura district, in Southland, advising and reporting on several butter factories that are being erected there. It has been decided to build an up-to-date central factory at Mataura, with creameries at Tuturau, Middlevale and other places. This step is said to have been forced upon the Mataura Dairy Factory Company by the incursions of outside competitors upon the supplies of the district. The new departure will he watched with interest in Southland.