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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 194, 30 June 1903, Page 3

As already stated Mr W. J. Moffatt, Chairman of the Motueka School Committee waited upon the Nelson Education Board yesterday with reference to the non-receipt of the usual quarterly allowance for January-March and the contracts recently let under authority of the Board ; also, asking for the Board's endorsement of Committee's application to the Education Department for a sum of money equal to the allowance withheld. It" was resolved, on the motion of Mr Phillips, that the endorsement be given. In speaking to an application from a Committee for a grant for firewood, Mr Franklyn and other members spoke appreciatively of the action of the Motueka people in liberally lesponding to the Committee's appeal.

A Carriage, suitable for elderly persons, good as new, in first-class order, for sale. A Bargain at WALKER & SO.N'S, Coach Works, Takaka. Full particvlars on application. The poultry industry in New Zealand is assuming large dimensions. During the last financial year 75,000 birds were killed dressed and graded at the Government depots, the . majority of them for the South African market, as against 38,000, for the year ending 31st March, 1902. In addition to. the .poultry which passed through the during the last financial year several thousand birds were exported without being graded by the Government experts. The Agricultural Department intends to seek legislation to prevent the export of any poultry unless it has been graded by Government officials.

Alcoholism is reported to be showing an alarming growth in the schools of Normandy. The teachers report that the children .frequently come fuddled to school, usually as the result of the celebration of a family festival over night.

Tiie Eketahuna Express is of the opinion that it is a moral certainty that the days of the totalisator are numbered. The people are coming to recognise the obvious injustice of prosecuting Chinamen for playing fan-tan, whilst men, women, and children are encouraged by the State to squander their substance on the totalisator. If gambling in any shape or form is right, it snould not be restr-icted to the °one channel. Our virtuous Legislature has declared that it is criminal to gamble. That being the case, it is morally wrong that the totalisator should be licensed. The matter will probably j form.the subject of a warm controversy jin the House during the coming sesI sion.