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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 187, 5 June 1903, Page 3

Owing to pressure ou our space we are compelled to hold over till next issue a quantity of local news, including report of socials, at Motueka and Riwaka, reports of meetings, etc. Messrs Baigent, Beuke and Frank - lyn, the committee appointed by the Education Board, to deal with the local committee's application for improvements visited the school premises last Tuesday accompanied by the Chairman, Mr W. J. Moffatt, and decided to grant sufficient money to erect a new fence fronting High Street, a shelter shed, partition one room in the school, repair firewood shed, spouting and windows, and several other minor repairs. It will be noticed that the committee are already inviting tenders to do the work referred to

Messrs Gray and Parker's representative will visit Motueka on Monday and Tuesday next and may be consulted at the Post Office Hotel.

Members of the House are expected to fulfil some "curious requests nowadays, butMi A; W.Rutherford, M.H.R awards the palm to a. lady living some where between Blenheim and Kaikoura who asked his assistance in securing a thrice weekly mail service, a telephone and a visit from the Government poultry expert. The Tapanui branch of Educational Institute has passed a resolution expressing the opinion that the introduction of the Bible into the State schools would be opposed to the best interests of the education of the State and of religion itself. The Otago institute is to be asked to discuss matter at the annual meeting. From time to time we hear tif record milk tests, but here is one tnat will be pretty hard to beat. Mr E. Bannister, a supplier to the Masierton Dairy Company averaged a test of 7.1 during the past month, although the weather has not been congenial to the best interests of the cow. Mr Bannister, it may be mentioned, stables his cows, and also feeds them on green oats chaff, and molasses, and no doubt the care he thus takes of them is responsible for the very high test. Individual tests for the month were 7.6, 7.1, and 6.5, butjthe average was 7.1.

• Americans are notorious for their prudery, but they have outdone themselves by raising and seriously debating the question of whether a lady may speak to a gentleman over the telephone if she happens to be dishabille, the American practice of having a telephone in the bedroom rendering this event quite possible. Perhaps, it has been suggested they recollect Mr Punch's picture of Jones in his bathroom listening to Brown's shouted invitation to dinner: "Don't trouble to dress. Come just as you are."

The estate of the late E„ W. Dee Nelson, has been proved at .£7,590. The wood ofgthe redwood tree never decays, it said, and fallen trunks which have been overgrown by old forests are as solid as the day they fell. The muscles of the human jaw exert a force of about 5001 b.

The final census returns shows that the population of India is 296,266,701. A French pianist played for 27 hours and 4 minutes and then became insane.

For Children's Racking Cough at night take Wood's Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6d.

A lame shoulder is usually caused by rheumatism of the muscles and may be cured by the use of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. This liniment is unequalled as a soothing lotion. One application gives relief. Try it, A, Manoy sells it For Influenza and Cold inHhe. Head take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6d.