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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXII, Issue 2790, 15 May 1911, Page 2

A somewhat novel proposal has been made with regard to the Timaru High School, a proposal that shows which way the wind is blowing nowadays, in regard to rural education. It has been proposed to specially devote the Timaru High School to agriculture. It would, in reality, become an agricultural high school. The ordinary continuation course, English, arithmetic, and so on, would still receive attention, but any boy wishing to take up farming as a pursuit would receive a good scientific grounding. This scientific knowledge, aided by the practical experience he would gain on the farm after he left school, would doubtless aid him a good deal in his struggle with Nature. He would, of course, receive, as well, a good general education.

In the election ot Hawke's Bay County Council representatives on the Napier Harbour Board a peculiar point arose. The returning officer declined to furnish details of the voting at the various booths because in places where there are only two or three votes, and they plumped for one candidate, publication of details would violate the secrecy of the ballot.

" I have come to the conclusion that there are two landlords in this country that ought to be taxed very heavily. One of them is the State and the other the Maori." This is the opinion ot Mr C. H. Ensor, a Canterbury farmer, who has been spending a holiday in the North Island. Mr Ensor continued to justify his remarks by saying that the two landlords he had quoted were holding in the North Island the largest amount of undeveloped land he had ever seen, and that land was getting over-run with weeds and rabbits. The worst feature of it was that the land was lying idle and creating no wealth at all. There were millions of acres of sucli land in the Rotorua and Waikato districts that could be brought easily into cultivation, and some of it was splendid soil, as proved by a few isolated patches that have been cultivated.