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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXII, Issue 2788, 10 May 1911, Page 2

The question of holding a celebration of some description to mark the opening of the new school building was mentioned at the meeting of the Paeroa School Committee last night. It had been hoped that the function could take place about the middle ol next month, but it seems that the building will hardly be completed by that time. Probably when the new school is ready ior occupation, the Minister for Education, the chairman of the Auckland Education Board and Mayor, of' Auckland, and other prominent men will be invited to take part in the opening ceremony. As there is still plenty of time in which to make arrangements, nothing definite was decided upon at last night's meeting, but the business will again come before the committee at its next monthly meeting.

Mr Morris Upton, advertising representative of W. E. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure Co., Ltd., was a visitor to Paeroa yesterday. Mr Upton has been travelling lor the firm lor seventeen years past, and has visited almost every part of Africa, Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. The peppermint cure has a large sale, and in the six months ol last winter 1500 gross of bottles of this remedy were sold in Australia alone. " If there is one thing more than another that this census will emphasise, it will be the,, decline in the birth-rate." This is a'remark made by a census official.to a Wauarapa Daily Times reporter. He had studied his returns intelligently, and he dcclar.ed that, if the figures were analysed properly, and the size ot the family compared in every case with the position (or estimated earnings) of the head of the family, the result would startle New Zealand.

On opening a barrel of apples from Vancouver, British Columbia, recently, an Islington (London) fruiterer discovered the following among the contents : —"I am looking lor a good-looking-young man. Iftheanan that gets this Ijox of apples is half-way good looking send me a letter.—Yours as ever, Ellen M. Stafford. R. S. D. No. 4, Vancouver P. S. —He must be at least 30 years old, and must be able to support an automobile. See ?"