NEWS AND NOTES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 143, 19 February 1915, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES

The Medical Superintendent of UiWangamii Hospital reported on Wed",'..lay on the worK of the institution du--,i-g January, as fallow-: Number treated during the'moiitJi 1 tl. Amissions W 1 discharges 07. deaths number reu.i.ini:.g id end of nj *th "■'> ••■•jti ■S \ n der anaesthetics SI At the Tnihup; Hospital, the fo- da.! ,:uy wer;Number treat.r.l 2". udr.t'jSsL.as H ! , clis charges 13. d.wth.j 2, remaining 12 operations C. -U the latter Vispitn there wore 5 typhvid and "f. diptherl. cas.es. i The Methodist Conference of Nov. Zealand will be opened in Christchurcl an Thursday, February 2§th. Then will be no conversazione this yea'-, bu.< instead a monster old-fashioned Methodist tea meeting in the Salvation Arm;. Citadel. This will be followed by a bij: missionary meeting, at which Dr. GeoBrown, veteran missionary, -viil be the principal speaker. The conference v. ii have to deal with the question of the modification of the itinerant system On this question the synods have givea divided vote, and what the conference will decide is by no mean? certain

At tho Feilding A. and P. Associs tion's smoke social last week, Mr, W Perry, the well-known MasteUoi sheep-breeder, said he did not consldei the sheep of the Dominion were fleshenough, compared with those of Bii •.aim Climatic conditions were nor 'vr, s partly re.ip: ; ns lie, Lot he thou ;'al lh .: the lack of li-.no in I'hc s<il ' as < c tit .:•'•> nting facto". In view'of t!i« \n\'v. he was plca-rOd t-« SeO that :.i effort was being made to work the bic and important deposits of Manawatu Mr. Perry further stressed the ad van tages to the farming community deriv ed from agricultural education. All previous fish cr.tche's reported a having taken place in the vicinity o the King's Wharf, Wellington, wer eclipsed on Wednseday by a retrieve dog. Several visitors to the wharf, in tent on killing or wounding an eie pliant tish that was swimming near th surface, throw stones, but without e! feet. The retriever espied the objec aimed at, and, with a mighty [dunp off the wharf set out in pursuit, "catch-as-catch-cau" ensued, and end ed in a victory for the dog, whlcr. landed on the steps with an elephant fish that measured over four feet ii length. The unusual catch was afterwards displayed suspended from the rat-lines of a small coastal steamer till late in the afternoon.

The Wangamii Hospital Board has decided to invite ao;>! : eations for tinposition of disnenser at the local institution at !• salary of ±'2oo per \pj.r. At the meeting n«* (he luard yo-tevday the chairman (Mr. Bassett) said that there was an expenditure of sVOOO a year on driiff?, and \i \\\u& c n'.i'denrd that by employing a dh«|.viisf>r that amount could bo r.'.du ;ed to at Vast the extent of! th.* iriher's salary. r ' he chairman add id t.hit the dispenser would also perform the duties of collecting Recounts ivom palier.t'j. At N't w Plymouth Hospital, <vhero there was an official on the spot, •!$ per eon'., of the accounts were collect-.:i, but- at the yXnnganui Hospital the iimouat was '£') p-:j cent., or ven less. Mr. Bignell considered that the action was the best, thing to be done from an administrative point of view.

At the meeting of the Wanganni Board of Education on Wednesday, MiBennett asked for information in regard to a charge of ?>* a year made a' Palmerston North in connection with the girls attending the cookery classes. Tlie explanation was that neither the cookery nor the woodwork classes paid, and the instructors were expected to

make "two ends meet." The oiembtrs did not consider that a cookery thai go of 3d a month was an exorbitant one. The chairman (Arc F. Pirani) reminiseently referred to -i previous anangement at the Eltham school, where, v.hen "cooking day" arri, T :d, it was not unusual to see a pupil starling oft" for school with one carrot, one parsnip, one turnip, and one egg. "And one chop and one sausage,'' another member hurried to put in. On the face of the chairman's remarks the Board came if the conclusion that the arrangement of an annual charge was the more satisfactory one. fnci lentally, it was stated that t;■ ! s~!i< i larder was r.' some places replenished to some extent from the school gardens.