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Southland Times, Issue 18832, 27 May 1920, Page 4

The English Pierrots have been booked for a season in Invercargill next September. At Solway, near Mastcrton, on Friday morning there were fifteen degrees of frost. In accordance with a recent Gazette notice, Empire Day will be observed in conjunction with the King’s Birthday on June 3. The treasurer of the Wallace and Fiord Hospital desires to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of £1 Is from the South Hillend Social Committee as a donation to the funds of the institution. A Press Association telegram from Taumarunui states that residents going home from the theatre on Tuesday night at eleven o’clock witnessed anunusua! sight, a magnificent lunar rainbow with a perfect white arc from one horizon to the other.

• A deal of back country in the Horowhenua district is shortly to be opened up, and already arrangements are being made to erect sawmills in the ranges.—N.Z. Times.

The total tonnage in Lyttelton last Thursday, including the Renown, was over 62,400 tons, which is understood to be a record for the port. There were only two or three vacant berths.

The committee of the Otautau Winter Show have reason to congratulate themselves on the number of entries for this year’s show, which are 103 more than any previous year.

The Southland Times has received through tiie courtesy of the Prime Minister a copy of the Versailles Peace Treaty in book form. The work is the product of the Imperial Stationery Office, and it gives on alternate pages the text in French and in English.

Cr Sullivan had given notice to move at Monday night’s meeting of the Christchurch City Council that the proportional representation system should be adopted in future elections of the Council, but when the time for moving his motion came, Cr Sullivan said that as the Council was not at present at full strength, owing to the vacancy caused by the death of Cr Nicholls, he would defer his motion at least until the by-e!ec tion was over.

When one hears of £l5O per acre being lealised for properties on the PalmerstonAshurst road (says the Wellington Post), it is interesting to read the following extract from a letter written by the late Mr John T. Stewart, formerly district surveyor: “In 1871 Swedish immigrants arrived at Foxton per ship Go-ahead, and to each was allotted thirty acres of land between Palmerston and Ashurst. They were charged £1 per acre, which they paid out of their earnings at road-making.”

Although Invercargill people did not have an opportunity of hearing the Williamson Grand Opera Company it is announced that one of the most striking artists of the combination will come this way. This is Miss Gertrude Johnson, the soprano, whose singing caused a sensation during the grand opera season. Miss Johnson will be accompanied by Mr Horace Hunt as solo pianist, Mr F. Russell as flautist and Mr Eric Waters, accompanist. The Invercargill season will be two nights early in July.

The Wellington Post’s London correspondent mentions an interesting alteration in the rules of procedure governing courts-mar-tial. It is that a soldier acquitted shall be, so informed in open Court. Under the old system nothing so dramatic was provided for. While the members considered their finding, the Court was cleared, and if they decided on an acquittal, the accused man. would first hear of the matter when he found himself released from arrest. Now, however, the prisoner will be brought back and told all about it.

At the Ladies’ Kennel Association Show in London on March 25, Mrs Innes took a first prize for her Alsatian wolf dog “Latour,” of unknown pedigree, but of obvious beauty and perfect in almost every point. It was looted from General Ludenriorff by a French soldier. It came into Mrs Innes’s possession about six weeks before the show and was shown for the first time, beating till competitors. She describes it as “beautifully bioken to the house,” so General must have had it as a house peC

Notwithstanding the inclement weather a large ntayber of delegates from the various Labour unions assembled in the Labour Hall last evening, Mr Jacob Alsweiler presiding, to make preliminary arrangements for a Labour Carnival to be held in October next. Mr Alsweiler spoke at length on the necessity of the trades unions having an up-to-date Trades Hall in Invercargill, for which object the Carnival is to be held. It is also intended to hold a monster art union, for which £IOO will be given in prizes. Mr Alex. Sutherland was appointed organiser, and Mr Tom O’Byrne treasurer.

A word of appreciation of the “uncertificated” teacher was uttered by the Minister for Education (Hon. C. J. Purr), last week. He said the Department had 1400 uncertificated teachers, and he did not know what they would do without them. Sometimes he heard disparaging remarks, but the unccrlificated teacher was doing excellent work. In many cases the uncerf ificated teacher possessed a very fair general education, and what made up for a great deal—a love of children. In the lower standards he was not sure whether the uncertiflcated teacher was not doing better work than the one with a certificate.

On the evening of (he big military review at i'orhury Park, Dunedin, at which His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was present (he officer commanding the district (Colonel T. W. McDonald) was the guest of the Prince at dinner at the Royal residence (Fernhill Club). After dinner His Royal Highness personally presented Colonel McDonald with im autograph portrait of himself (the Prince of Wales) in the uniform of a colonel in the Welsh Guards. The portrait is signed “Edward P., 1920,” and was enclosed in a special envelope bearing the arms of the Prince of Wales. His Royal Highness asked Colonel McDonald to accept it as a souvenir of his very enjoyable visit to the Otago military district.

Referring to the question of “equal pay for equal work” at Saturday’s conference of the New Zealand Secondary Schools Assistants’ Association, the secretary (Mr F. M. Renner) complained that under the recent Education Amendment Act women teachers had benefited infinitely more than the male teachers. The average salaries of full time women teachers were increased by 43 per cent., whereas the salaries of male assistants were only' increased 28 per cent. The average increase of 28 per cent given to the salaries of assistants by the recent Education Amendment Act, stated Mr Renner, actually' amounted to only 16 per cent, for the majority of senior male assistants who were not p_rincipal or first assistants. In his opinion the amending Act was “a crude and embryonic scheme that merely perpetuated the existing chaos.”

An excellent example was set by Mr C. H. Johnstone, of Norwich Chambers, Colac, Victoria, in connection with the treatment of returned soldiers (says the Colac Herald). Three of his employees, Messrs Bruce Johnstone (his son), Charles S. Thompson, and John Hogarth Lee, enlisted and were accepted for active service, and each one of them was for several years with the Australian army. Mr Roy S. James enlisted twice, but was unfit for service. Recognising that men who had responded to the call of duty and rallied to the (lag when the bugle note of war sounded and the Empire was calling her sons throughout her farflung dominions to come to her assistance in her hour of need, deserved every consideration Mr Johnstone admitted each of the four men mentioned to a full partnership in his agency business. This has been carried on by him for the past 20 years with success, and will from now on be conducted under the name of the Royal Estate Agency.

The experiment of the Otago Expansion League in the direction of fostering immigration to the province bears fruit to the extent of an average of 20 applications per month from abroad (says the Star). Shme of the applicants seek merely general information; others, obviously requiring the smallest impetus to launch them on a new enterprise, ask the League to map their course, indicate shoals and quicksands, and mark safe anchorages. This month’s budget of inquiries comprises 21 appliejnts, 16 of whom are resident in England, two in Ireland, one in the States, and two in India. One is an Irish clergyman, 55 years of age, who describes -himself as a “loyalist,” and hints that life in Ireland as such is no “joke.” The list includes a school master, anxious to take up fruit farming; a dentist, engineers, a photographer, a miner, a nurseryman; a farmer, a railway carriage builder, and general labourers. Some of the communicants have capital to invest; one, seeking an introduction to a fanner, names the sum of £2OOO.

The wreck ,of the American schooner Defender on Nuku Suka reef, on April 10, was a boon to the natives of Fulaga. Captain Ericsen and his crew of six rowed to that island, which was ten miles away, and next morning when they returned to the wreck they were attended by about 22 canoes, carrying practically the whole population. The natives evidently considered a wreck ended private ownership for they helped themselves to the stores and any odd clothing. While the cargo of timber had no attractions for the natives, the paint "proved a great treasure, and before long their canoes were ail the colours of the rainbow.

Some years ago Professor J. MacMillan Brown instituted a set of prizes at the Waitaki Boys’ High School on novel lines, for the purpose of widening the ordinary interpretation of secondary school education. For the purpose of making these awards the staff are required to take into consideration the full range of the pupil’s development—physically, mentally and morally. The valuation is facilitated by a ballot vote from each form. Experience has proved that these awards, which are really a developed form of miniature Rhodes scholarships, have a far higher worth in the boys’ judgment than the ordinary class prices given for examinational work and testing the receptive faculty only. They constitute an admirable corrective of the narrow examinational view of education. Professor Macmillan Brown has now endowed these prizes by making a handsome donation of £l5O to the school for this purpose.

It is undoubtedly the age of the motor, and during his tour of America the Wellington city engineer was impressed with the fact that in some cities the motor had completely displaced the horse (says the Wellington Post). Mr Morton is of opinion, that it would be wise for the City .Council to consider at an early date the advisability of procuring one or more electric vehicles in order to demonstrate their suitability under local conditions, capable of carrying, say, three tons, and be for use in connection with the collection of rubbish. It is clear, he says, that petrol vehicles are unsuitable for collecting from door to door owing to the great consumption of petrol. The electric vehicles consume power only when travelling and are therefore, from the financial point of view, the most suitable for this class of work. They are .somewhat slow on the hills, but reliable, and two such vehicles could be used with great advantage over the flatter portions of the city.

Headers who know the work and worth of Rafael Sabalini, who remember the pleasant hours spent with his “Sea Hawk,’’ “The Tavern Knight,” etc., will be delighted with his “The Historical Night’s Entertainment.” Like everything Ihe author writes it is dramatic and well told. Order a copy at once, 5/-; posted, 5/6. Hyndman’s, Dee street, Invercargill.

Every penny invested in Drapery at THOMSON & BEATTIE’S returns a big interest in wearing qualities. This has built up for them a business that is known far and wide as the "Quality House.” Be sure and secure your Winter Costume there — they have them as low o as 84/- for a plain Tweed Costume, to 10 and 12 guineas for lovely stylish Gabardine and Serge Costumes. — (Advt.)

Flour cheaper; cost of living reduced— Finest Flour, 251bs 5/6, 50ibs 10/6, lOOlbs 20/0, 2001bs 37/-. The lower the price the quicker the sale. Superior Fowl Wheat, 34/- (sacks extra) at BAXTER’S. — (Advt.)

MASTERS, LTD., were tire originators o£ the 10 per cent, discount to returned soldiers. Other storekeepers have copied us and we now go one better. We now invite ail discharged soldiers and those waiting discharge to have their military hats reblocked, free of all cost, by the only hatter in Southland. We still give a 10 per cent, reduction to ail returned soldiers.--? MASTERS, LTD.. Dee street. — (Advt.)

Ladies’ Knitted Pure Wool Coats in grey, heather, drab, cream and black, with two side pockets and small turnback cuds, splendid cheap coat for the home or for cold nights. They are the very best obtainable in the Dominion. Call and inspect the values at PRICE & BULLEID’S, Ltd., Tay street. — (Advt.J (Advt.)

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all sizes, 5/11 to 49/6. If we cannot suit you from stock we will gladly make to your order. H. & J. SMITH, Ltd., Progressive Stores, Invercargill and Gore.— (Advt.)

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