DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 26, 1 October 1913, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

SLY CROC.

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Greymouth, September 30

In the appeal in the Waiutu and Big llivor sly grog cases, in which the magistrate, Mr Hewitt, held that there being on premises more liquor than was reasonably required for persons residing therein was a prima fa ic evidence of sijle, the appeal was dismissed by Mr Justice Chapman. App dlants relied principally on the fact that there was no evidence of sale and no particular date, the information alleging between two dates within three months of the laying of the information.

THE CUSTOMS REVENUE.

Wellington, September 30. 'flic Customs revenue collected at

Wellington during September totalled £85,328 lls' 9d, and the excise duty £ll Id, compared with £70,989 13s O.i and £lOl4 respectively in September, 1912. For the July-Septnnher quarter the Customs revenue shows an increase of £31,628. compared with the same period in 1912. THE “EVERY MEMBER” CAMPAIGN. Christchurch, September 30. ,

The results of the “Eypry Member” campaign for the Canton -mission to Sepetmber 30th are , as' follows: Auckland and Waikato £7(O, Wanganui and Taranaki £703, Hawke’s Bay £l3, Wellington and Wairarapa £519. "Westlandj* Nelson and Marlborough £21(1, Canterbury £1660, Otago £1536, Southland £359; total £SBOO. None of the £4600 acknowledged before the campaign is included, but at the end of the campaign all will be included.

VITAL STATISTICS.

Dunedin, September 30

The births registered in Dunedin during September ‘numbered 160, as against T 43 in September of last year. The deaths for the same period const'tut cd a record since the beginning o! the local office, numbering 101, as compared with 80 in September of last year. The 'marriages numbered 38, as against 42 for last Septe'mber. The returns for nine inonths’-afe as follow, th.> figures, for last year being given in parentheses :—l}ir&is, 5 1267 (1335); deaths, 727 (633) j, marriages 518 (508). , .'V . ; / .. 1; ‘'ltt rrfh ;..D -.rvH TARANAKI TEApHERS. ( i ."uc'n'ij ' t ) j'- i: ) i ; - 'i , , , j 30. ■; The Wellington Ed(itpa^jop.BparpV.to T |day co,ps\deyed a lettpr,,fyjom the Tarainalf), p, aitin)hpi>'Or nncortificated teachers, suggesting the formation of observation schools to give such teachers the advantage of some months’ Inspector Fleming said,, that the proposal would entiul additional expense, and 'only parfial yeanedy. - The I proper, was foy.rtjje, teachers to I go. to a training college;. Thp ho.nrfls should rather, seek to improve tlie conditions un|lpr which teachers enter training ; colleges and raise their salary's, so as tp t induce tepphers ,t,o take: a college course. My Fleming suggested., and the Foard decided, that the Taranaki Board be invited to send un-

co-tificatcd teachers .to the Wellington Training College. ...

THE CHILDREN’S HEALTH.

Wellington, September 30

A deputation from the Headmasters’ Association waited on the Wellington Education Board to-day regarding the medical examination of school child-

ren. Mr W. T. Grundy pointed out the position tlio medical inspection had readied in the schools. The inspection was divided into two parts, the first being principally concerned with the medical officer, who appeared at intervals to examine certain children, and records of these examinations were kept. To that part the teachers had no objection, but what they wanted to bring under notice was the work that they (the teachers) were required to do from the beginning of the year. They now found that this examination took '"a good deal 1 of time and trouble, and they wished the Board to take this into consideration. He had brought some of the cards that the teachers wei'e expected to fill in, which would show what had to lie clone. Those cards each took from fifteen to twenty minutes to fill in, and. therefore, a teacher could only examine about four children an hour. The Board would therefore see that in a school with 700 or 800 children it took a very great deal of time during the year to got through that examination, and, in

consequence, the school work suffered. Other teachers spoke on siirnhu linos and the Board referred the matter to the chairman, and the town members to prepare a report.