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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 202, 28 July 1903, Page 3

Since the police provident fund came into force, the Government has saved the sum of ,£9646 in the form of retiring allowances, which would, no doubt, have bad to be paid had the fund not been in existence. At a meeting of the Arthur-street School Committee, Dunedin, it was pointed out, on the advice of a solicitor* that in the event of an accident to a. janitor or any casual labourer working for “the committee each individual member was responsible under the workers Compensation" for Accidents Act. It was "decided to bring the matter before the Education Board. Standard bred poultry ought to be found on every farm in the country. There ought not to be room for mongrels anywhere. The annual return of the world’s fleet shows that Britain is still ahead with 418 warships in being and 108 building ; but France, with g 34 afloat and 131 on the stocks, is only eleven behind.