LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4486, 9 November 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha School Committee meet tomorrow (Wednesday) evening at 730 o’clock. Now that the filling in of Eenrick Street contract is completed, one of the most popular promenades both with visitors and residents, is across the new bridge and out into the country. The next meeting of the Wanganui Rifle Association is fixed for December 27th and 28th. A Championship Teams Match at 500,600 and 800yds has been added to the programme. The first meeting of the newly-elected Waitoa Drainage Board takes place on Friday next, 12th November, when a Chairman will be chosen. A telegram from Cambridge reports the death of Mr Joseph Gane, a wellknown farmer, of Kaipaki. No particulars are available. A Sunday School class has been comnuHced by Miss Fawcett amongst the Maori children at Tni Pah. The first visit was paid on Sunday last, and augurs well for its ultimate success. The infant son of Mr Jno. Neil, who met with a scalding accident last Friday, and was taken to the Waihi Hospital, succumbed to his injuries. The little one was laid to rest in the Te Aroha West Cemetery on Sunday last. On Saturday evening last Mrs R. B. Hines, while on her way to Te Aroha, was thrown from her horse and stunned. We are pleased to learn that she has completely recovered from the mishap. “There is a lot of nonsense talked about the poverty in England,” Mr Foster Fraser said to a Wanganui reporter. “It is inevitable 'that there should be poverty in a crowded society of over forty million people, but it is a huge mistake, too prevalent I think in the minds of distant dominions, to imagine that the working classes of England are badly fed and out of work. You will find these things, but the majority of the working classes at Home receive good wages and have comfortable houses (most of which they own). All round our big towns there are allotments with gardens, where men may work in the evenings after leaving the factories. It is quite true that in New Zealand you have got none of the poverty we have got at Home but, on the other hand, you have not got the wealth that we have.”

A reward is offered for the recovery of sheep dog, lost from Mangaiti. It is expected that Te Aroha will be well supplied with visitors from outside districts to-day. The tennis, croquet, and bowling green will doubtless be well patronised.

There was a very fair number of bowlers indulging in a roll-up on Saturday afternoon last. The green was on the wet side, but nevertheless, those on the lawn spent an enjoyable couple of hours.

The airship Espagna, which broke away with four people aboard, descended safely at Melum in France. Captain Scott, who is to lead another expedition to the South Pole, says he hopes to start from England at the end of July or the beginning of August, 1910, and does not yet know from what port he will sail in New Zealand—possibly either Lyttelton or Dunedin—but he expects to enter the ice in December, 1910.

A man at Paris profusely apologised to a man he bad stabbed on discovering that he was not the man he intended to stab. It was very polite, but doesn’t seem to have been appreciated even in France, for they arrested the man. The Thames Harbour Board has appointed its chairman (Mr W. Scott) as delegate to proceed to Wellington in connection with the silting up of the river.

A deputation from the Ohinemuri River Silting Association, consisting of Messrs Hubbard, Buchanan, and Brunskill, waited on the Ohinemuri County Council at its meeting on Thursday , with the request that the Council co-operate with other bodies in urging upon the Government the necessity for dealing with the evil caused by the silting up of the river. After considerable discussion the Council agreed to urge upon Government to take some action at once to aleniate the distress caused by the silting up of the river. Regarding the sleeping sickness or Look worm, which is said to be responsible for the unfortunate state of the poor whites ” of South America, it is said that the use. under prescription of 15 to 75 cents’ worth of two of the cheapest and commonest drugs—Epsom salts and thymol—the worst cases can be disposed of absolutely and permanently in from one to ten weeks.” Thi3 is the message that Dr. Stiles has brought to the “poor whites;” and Eockfeller has seldom put his vast accumulation of gold to better purpose than when he decided to assist in solving what the “ Atlanta Constitution ’’has rightly termed “the pre-eminent problem of the So^th.”

A novel point respecting the authority of a school-teacher over a pupil occupied the stipendiary magistrate at Gore for several hours recently (says the Mataura Ensign). The female teacher of a small sohool in the neighbourhood had a dispute with the school-cleaner, a daughter of the chairman of committee and the cleaner at the end of September refused to continue the work. On October 3th the teacher told one, of the boys, a son of the chairman, to sweep out the school, and ho did so. His father told him not to do it again, as he did not think it was part of school duty. The following Monday the defendant again asked the boy to clean out the school after it had closed for the afternoon, but he went home without doing so. The next morning the boy was thrashed by the teacher for refusing to carry out her instructions, and an action for assault was brought against her. The magistrate thought that the case would not have been brought before the Court had there not been the previous dispute with the chairman’s daughter. As to pupils cleaning a school, he thought they might properly be called upon to do it in an emergency, when the ordinary arrangement had broken down, as was the case here. As the boy had refused to obey her orders, tbe teacher was entitled to punish him,as it was quite apparent the.t ff teacher’s authority was not upheld $ school might as well be closed. Ho therefore 4>Sioi ßSe< J tjie case. Professional costs of M ?? W® #Q wt 'd against tho prosecution, *