ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43102, 8 June 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Speaking at the Tonbridge Technical Institute and School of Aits prize distribution, the socretajry deplored the fact .that for every five young women who joined an, art class only one could hie induced to join the cookery class.

<Aj woman named Mrs Eva Milieu, together with her mother, Mrs 1 Moore, and l ; her daughter Olga, were found poisoned by a gas escape in a room at Paddington (Sydney). The woman is .dead.

. An Ofoafcuna correspondent of the 'Taihape Post hopefully writes to the effect that although even the metalled roads rare all -slush and mud—in places feet . deep—the residents are better off than last winter. OuT Waihi correspondent writes: I “I am pleased to note that the young man Niooll®, whohadhis hand Severely crushed in the Junction battery, a few weeks ago, is making satisfactory progress.” The sanatorium for consumptives erected at Otaki by the Wellington Hospital Board, provides axxommodaiionfor thirty. inmates. The sanatorium stands in about 70 acre® of land, costing to build and equip. Of this sum, £.1700 was* raised by -'rivate subscription^. '■ Mr Ericson, lighthoUsekeeper at Jack’s Point, near Timiaru, writes : “One of the Exhibition seals liberated at New Brighton called in at this plaice. 'Ha had evidently not forgotten his 'association with man, as he allowed me to scratch his back, and would have gone to sleep had it not been that my dog was 1 fussing around and barking at him. H© wont to sea in the aftemoonn, and was steering south when' last seen.” Ait a large meeting at Reefton, called by the county it was resolved to ask the Government to institute a national 1 grant for the protection of consumers of bread, which . in Reefton is 8d per loaf cash. Back in the mining Camps, where it is the staple- artiole of food, the price is 9d. In ao article on the education of

mothers!, the Lytteltonl Times says: “Something of the sentiment which taboos babies and nursing as a topic of dis'auesioni prevents the Education Department from Insisting on- the inclusion oif motherhood and mother-

ing in the curriculum far the upper rrirls* classes of the schools. There is a vast amount of good to be done by instructing girls and young women ir the duties that will be theirs in later life. Possibly, if women were permitted to take a more active part ir, .our public works, Parliament woulr 1 •be compelled to give this question thf attention it demands.”

Presiding at a lecture in Christ churdb by Dr. Truby King, on “In fant Life Preservation,” Bishop Julim said: "Whether this colony was worsor better than its neighbors, there wa' no doubt a great deal of infant lif< was wasted, arid the waste would bmore likely to increase than to dim imSh unless the position were wiseh andf properly faced. -The influences o’ the. misuse of civilisation tender against the preservation of infanlife. Obeying the dictates of conven ience and fashion, women , were leawav from Nature’s'methods, the morse a® artificial methods were so read' ait, ha,nd. It was a matter of oommor dirity to help and encourage womei to turn back to Nature’s course, tr • Sionaur those that nursed their owr children, and to let them know thal to do so- was a dishonor, or at al l evpnts a thing to be -by no means prqud of.”

„.^ ur Pam>a correspondent writes: At the annual meeting of the Agri cultural Society the report stated that the . horticultural show resulted m a, deficit which however was more khan counterbalanced by the receipts •tom the agricultural show. It was dated that the Society had a suiccees'ul career in) front of it, and the opinexpressed that it was driino weful apd„ valuable work;. The eleo ton of office bearers and officials rewlted as under: Patron, W. G Wcholls, Esq.; president, H. Poland, 2sq.; vice-presidents, Messrs R. w’ iagnall, A L. Yule, and W. Marsh; reasurer, Mr J. Hanna; auditor, Mir '• Management Committee, ftwm S. Bai, H. Biros- , ®urihanan, B. Bromwich, S. Hraag, D. Craig, W. Dennerley, E Edwards, 'A. E. Fielder, L. B. Grimtjo.ne, W. J. Hall, A. C. Hubbard, J. r T - F- Moore, E. * T L ? abs6n ' W - H- Wight, nd W. 0. Wright.” A! resident on the Main Trunk rail'tij thinks that if, during the summer lonthfl, excursions were run to Rauipura good number of people would themselves of the opportunity f vitttang the rail head* and viewing be works. A correspondent- writes: “The little tJeainer Ido,' which lor some years a»t i has been, engaged in -the trade etween Russell and Opua. has been old: through the Ford Line, Limited, o Captain W. E. Allen, of Tairua. ‘aptaan Allen intends to use the faeampr for passenger, cargo, and towig traffic between Tairua and Mer'nry Bay, for which the steamer is dixurably ittitsd,” ~ ;