Fiats in Keen Demand.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 137, 10 May 1940, Page 6

Fiats in Keen Demand.

Three hundred applications have been received for seventeen of the fifty flats being built by the State at Berhampore (Wellington). Assistance To Sailors.

In view of many calls for assistance ivbich would be made on the British Sailors’ Society, it ivas decided at a meeting of the Shipwreck Society of New Zealand to make a donation oi £IOO to the funds of the society.—Press Association. Kowhai Tree in Bloom.

A kowhai tree in a garden in Maori Hill (Dunedin) is in bloom. This tree has been flowering for more than 20 years and invariably breaks out sparingly in the early winter, generally in early June, continuing right on till the spring when other kowhai trees have their short season. Justice Mocked. In communistic Russia and Nazi ery, said Hon. J. A. Hanan, Clianery, said the Hon. J. A. Hanan, Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, in his address at the capping ceremony at Canterbury University College. Might had supplanted human rights. To exercise principles of liberty was to experience the firing squad or the concentration camp. Waikato Hospital Plan. Expenditure likely to be £400,000 to £500,000 Avill be made by the Waikato Hospital Board on a building expansion scheme. Most of the works are to be treated as urgent, and Ministerial consent will be sought immediately. The projects include extensive additions to the nurses’ home accommodation, a new residence for the superintendent, and the erection of an infirmary in Hamilton. A new hospital and nurses’ home are also to be erected in Rotorua, while Taupo is to have a hospital for the first tune. Improvements at Matamata and 'i’e Kuiti are also planned.—Press Association. Chaplains For Abroad. The following appointments of chaplains in connection with the Second Echelon are gazetted: Chaplain to the forces, 2nd Class, lit. Rev. Bishop G. V. Gerard, M.C., Senior Chaplain. Chaplain to the Forces, 3rd Class, Rev. J. Hiddlestone. Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, Rev. Li D. C. Groves, attached Headquarters, Railway Construction and Maintenance Group. Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, Alev. N. E. Winball, attached No. 1 N.Z. General Hospital. Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, Rev; H. 1. Hopkins. Chaplain to he 'Forces, 4th Class, Ilev.i W. E. W. Hurst. Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, Rev. K. Harawira, attached 28th (Maori) Battalion. Chaplain to the Forces,"4th Class, Rev. R. T. Dodds, attached No. 1 General Hospital. Chaplain to the Forces. 4th Class, Rev. W. Slieely. Chaplain to the Forces, 4tli Class, Rev. E. A: Forsman, | attached No. I N.Z. General Hospital.; | Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, Rev. j R. J. Griffiths. j

Colonel-1 n-Chicf. A letter lias been received by the Governor-General from the secretary to the King intimating that the Princess Koyal has accepted the appointment of Colonel-in-Chief of the New Zealand Corps of Signals. Marketing of Tallow. Authority for the marketing Department to purchase all tallow in the Dominion intended for sale to the United Kingdom is contained in an order gazetted last night. Hitherto tallow destined for the United Kingdom has been shipped by individual consignors. Tasman Flight. Iteturning from her first service flight to Sydney, tho Tasman Empire Airways flying-boat Awarua arrived at Auckland yesterday at 1.50 pan., with nine passengers and 3501 b of mail. The trip occupied eight and a quarter hours, cold and rainy conditions being encountered in the early stages. Missing Men Found. Four missing pig shooters from Morrinsville, Messrs J. Fussey, A. ; Chilton, L. Box, and A.. Smith, were found in McLaren’s Bush, behind Okoroire, at about 1030 o’clock on Wednesday morning. They had been three nights in the bush. Aji Okoroire party located the men, who had wandered many miles in the wrong direction. Bowling At Paraparaumu. The centre of bowling activities in the Paraparaumu district in future will be the greens of the recently-form-ed beach club. The club in the township, which has been in operation for several years, is linking up with the beach club, which has two full-sized greens. The bowling green in the township will in future be used for croquet. The Army Invitation. “I can’t go to camp on May 15, as we have sent out invitations to a big party on May 18,” was the reason advanced by a recruit when telephoning the Army authorities at Wellington after receiving notice that he was to entrain with the Third Echelon. The officer at the other end of. the telephone looked sympathetic—he was, too—and his reply, “Yes, but I have sent out invitations to a much bigger and much more important gathering,” must have also made the about-to-be-wed rcci'uit smile. ’

Candidates For Teaching. The present method of selecting candidates for entry to teachers’ training colleges was discussed at the annual meeting of the Educational Institute, and, after delegates had expressed the view that the system was unsatisfactory, a remit was carried urging that the medical inspection of prospective students and the interview by the selection committee, which shall consist of the senior inspector, the principal of the training college or his deputy, and one woman member, shall be held as early in the year as possible in order to enable a candidate who may be considered unsuitable to change his course. University’s Task.

The University, if it wished to continue as a major influence in secondary education, should attempt to make itself acquainted with the present philosophy and practice of secondary schools, with the high standard of academic attainment and technical skill among post-primary school teachers, and with the stagnating influence of restrictions even now imposed by an authority not charged with care of the schools. It might also realise that a maximum of 10 per cent, of secondary pupils who later went to a university did not constitute the schools’ sole responsibility or limits of endeavour, said the president of the Secondary Schools’ Association, Mr E. N. Hogben, who is also principal of the Dannevirko High School, at the annual meeting of the association.