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Shannon News, 16 March 1928, Page 2

It is probable that a second policeman will be appointed for Otaki and district. • w

There are at present 18 eases of scarlet fever in the Palmerston North hospital, six having been admitted during the last few days. There are no diphtheria cases at the institution.

The pear crop in Greytown this year appears to be extremely prolific. Many of the trees are so heavily laden that props are being employed to prevent ■the boughs from breaking under the strain. 0

“Are we driving enough horse common sense into the rising generation?” was a question asked by Cr. Ryder at the Horowhcnua County Council meeting on Saturday, when the Levin District High School Committee’s application for a grant of £ls towards the commercial classes was being discussed. He remarked that in his experience, pupils came home from the high schools, not with any desire for hard work, but with a desire to make money and get on in the world. He contended) however, that the world was never going to be run without hard and laborious work. “The time has come,” he added, “when the heads should teach our children that it is not degrading to do laborious work it is uplifting, manly, and everything that is creditable td man. It is the man who keeps us alive that we have |to look up to. In the past, unfortunately, it has not been that man who has been looked up to, but the man who has the millions.”