LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A special meeting of the Taranaki Education Board will be held on Thursday, January 10, 1918, for the purpose of making appointments of teachers, pupil teachers, and probationers. A request was received by the Education Board, yesterday, for permission for Plunket Nurse Dix to visit local schools, to give talks to the elder girls on hygiene and general health matters. Tt was resolved to grant the request, subject to the approval of the head teacher in each case.

A request came before the Education Board yesterday for the approval of some expenditure incurred by a school committee in the erection of a wire fence between the school grounds and a paddock adjoining. The chairman of the committee stated that the procedure waß irregular, and the board could not meet expenditure incurred without its sanction. The board decided to endorse the item referred to, and to reply to the committee that in future the board's sanction must be secured before expenditure is undertaken.

At the Magistrate's Court, yesterday, a married woman was charged with having received £1 Is, the property of Mr. W. W. Smith, from a girl, knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Quilliam, whoappeared for accused, the facts, but pleaded it was not till after the girl had left the house that accused knew she had the money. The folly was in spending it instead of making restoration. Accused was convicted, and ordered to,come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months, and to repay the amount. The case against the girl, who was charged with theft in the juvenile court, was dismissed.

A discussion took place at yesterday's meeting of the Education Board on a request from a school committee for the appointment of a soldier's wife to take the place of her husband during his absence at the front. Some members hesitated to establish a precedent, whilst others thought that the proper thing to do was to give every encouragement to the dependents of men on active service, fn the end, the board decided to reply to the committee that the matter would be considered at a later date. . It was pointed out that the lady in quesion had previously been a teacher under the board.

A breeze blew round the table at pesterday's meeting of the Education Board when an application for an increased subsidy for the purpose of improvements to their gymnasium was received from the Fitzroy School Committee, The grant made was £l6, and the increase asked for was £4. The proposal to grant the extra subsidy met with some opposition, and an amendment was moved to the effect that the amount be made up to £l7 10s. Mi'. Smith protested against the attitude of members of the board, which, lie said, was calculated to discourage school committees from keeping their buildings y.nd grounds in good repair, much less improving them. He said the Fitzroy committee had done a great deal in that matter, and were deserving of support, and he considered if the proposed amendment was carried, committees would lose lieart. The chairman said he thought Mr. Smith was not quite right, and that his statement was apt to give new members of the board the impression tliat the board had done little or nothing for Fitzroy. Mr. Smith replied that the chairman rather misrepresented him. Mr. White supported Mr, Smith, Mr. Wilkinson said ihe thought it ought not to be allowed to go out to the public that tho board did not support committees in such work. He agreed that the board lmd been liberal towards the Fitzroy committee. The amendment to make the amount of the subsidy £l7 10s was carried.

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Mr, Kin.t;, n member of the Hastings Borough Council, related to his fellowcouncillors on Thursday evening last that before his son went to the front he was presented with a wristlet watch. When recently in action a shrapnel shell burst near him, and a piece of shrapnel struck the watch and mangled it up completely without the wearer sustaining even a scratch. \ An Ashburton resicent, who has just returned from the West Coast, states that good progress is being made with the tunnel at the Otira. The engineer informed him that only q,bout 28 chains of the hill still remained to be pierced. The boring operations are being con ducted in two drives, one being overhead. The tunnel is perfectly dry, and the workmen are not hampered by water leaking in. At a meeting of freezing works" employees at Petone last week, the action of Australian slaughtermen in coming ,to New Zealand was discussed, and the opinion was expressed by a three to one majority that the Australians should not have come to the Dominion under the present circumstances. It is reported that in some works the New Zealand slaughtermen are refusing to work with the Australians, and some companies have decided not to engage the latter. The Auckland Star's Cambridge correspondent on Tuesday wrote:—A Learn, ington contractor named William Hogan had an exciting adventure with a bull yesterday. He had ridden out to drive some cattle from one paddock to another, and had just opened the gate, when the bull charged the rider. The animal gored the horse in the chest and it. fell back dead, Mr. Hogan was able to spring from the (stricken horse and make good his escape before the bull could continue hostilities. Mr. Hogan's only injury was a bruised leg. As showing that the hearts of some of the women in the Wairarapa are in the right place, a case that came under the notice of the Efficiency Board is worthy of notice. A small dairy farmer who milked fifteen cows night and morning, was drawn in the ballot. His young wife was iji a condition of health that would not permit her to do the milking and manage the farm at the time, "(live him three motnhs' leave," she said, "and I shall then be in normal health and able to manage the farm." The leave was granted. The farmer has since gone into camp, and the wife is bravely and patriotically doing the milking and managing the farm in her husband's absence.

The Empire Theatre management has secured a splendid attraction for Christmas Eve, Christmas night and Boxing night in the old English classic by Thomas Hughes "Tom Brown's Schooldays." This great story of the making of an Englishman through the Old Rugby school is the first, picture to be honored by a command performance before His Majesty the King,, at Windsor Castle, since the war commenced.

A boy of 10 played a mischievous trick in Albert street, Auckland, (says the Star). He went quietly into the doorway to the clothing factory of F. M. King and Co., and with a pair of pliers cut the wires carrying the electric current to the motors of the machinery. He then went to the office and said his employer had received a telephone message to the effect that the motors had stopped, and asking him to send someone to locate and repair the trouble, and had sent him. the lad. Enquiry was made at the office and it was found that the machinery had stopped, but nobody had sent the telephone message. A policeman was called in, and the boy admitted his trick. He was put on probation for three months.

Picture patrons will be interested to learn that Mary Pickford has decided to leave her own company and p'lay in motion pictures for iPatlie. Douglas Fairbanks and William S. Hart will probably do the same thing. Frank Keenan, Bessie Love, Antonio Moreno, Trene Vernon Castle, Fannie Ward and Bryant Washburn have already done so. More are about to follow the same course. The reason for the change is that France is making a big effort to l.ring into the country some of the money which is at present being extended in America, With this idea the Pathe people have recently been backed up by the French Government to the extent of. some twenty million francs. Pathe are the pioneers in filmcraft and have now commenced to take everybody else's stars. They have purchased no fewer than four new studios, bought out tho Kalem plant, and with the stars named above and those already under their wing, viz., Pearl White, Mollie King, Frederick Ward, Jcannie Eagles and fifty others they will surely reap a just reward in the future. "May I beg most earnestly that greater thought be given to the girl's future life work, and that she be not pushed haphazard into some respectable occupation, however unsuited she may be for it?" said Miss Butler, head-mis-tress of the Auckland Girls' Grammar School, in her annual report. "So many girls who are utterly! unfitted to teach, try to enter the teaching profession—and not only do themselves a grave injustice, but also the children who are entrusted to them. To my mind it is all a part of the discipline and training of a girl that, she should be taught to choose her future career in those fields where she is most fitted to work, and where in consequence her work will benefit the community most. It is time that we cease taking a selfish outlook on life, each in our turn hunting for minimum work and maximum pay, and remember our duty to our State and our neighbor. Wc have paid a high price to learn the value of discipline, and if we mean to maintain our position as world leaders we must remember our responsibilities, and study community interests, and our children must have the best, and only the best, handed to them, and they must be taught that each lias his or her station in life, and the work that they will do best is the work for which they are best fitted. There must be no wastage of material. So, may 1 aak, that as part of your patriotism you will make it your business to find the niche in life into which your daughter will best fit."

Good old. Santa Claus is coming to the Big Store, Waitara. He wants tn meet all the children on Christmas Eve from 3 to 4, and from 7 to D o'clock. Bring all the eliililren. let them shake hands with "old Santa" aucl tell him what to put in their Christmas stockings.

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The manager of a prominent Wellington pork butchery «aid i.liero wan evidently a shortage of pigs, and he put it down to the operations of American buyers and the shortage of labor. The latter fact caused the farmers to go in for calves rather than for pigs.

The Wanranui Chronicle states that the returned soldiers have unanimously decided to build ,11 soldiers' clubhouse, and they are out to raise £SOOO by public subscription. Already one publicspirited citizen of Wanganui has donated a site.

A meeting of lite Citizens' Band committee was held last night. Mr. E. J. Sole presided, and there were present the Ven. Archdeacon Evans, Messrs W. H. Penn, A. Handley, A. Milne, C. Bond, and R. Kibby. Some final details were settled in connection with the forthcoming carnival. Mr. F. W. G. McLeod, bandmaster, was granted leave of absence for his annual holiday as from January 2. It was reported that the sum of £44 I had been subscribed for the bandsmen's Christmas benefit. A vote of thanks was accorded the chairman, and seasonable compliments were exchanged. A pathetic story is related by a recent I visitor to the Wooroloo Sanatorium (West Australia), an institution which has been erected by the State Government. Among the patients are some returned soldiers suffering from pulmonary troubles. Eecently they became interested in a hut situated about a mile away from the sanatorium- When told that it was the home of a young girl suffering from leprosy, they immediately began to devise means to relieve the. tedium of her dreadful isolation. Finally a note was sent to t>e girl explaining the Morse code of semaphore signals. Thes» she quickly learned, and now'every day she carries on a conversation with the soldier® by the medium of flags.

: 'When were you married ?" was a question asked of fin appellant by the chairman of the Military Service Board in Wellington on Wednesday. "In 191 ft —no, in 15)10," was the reply, "Some of you men should bring your wives with you to remind you when you were married," said Mr. D, McLaren (a member of the Board), amid laughter. Mr. G. 0. G. Watson (solicitor) remarked that in a case the other' day a man had described himself as a single man, but suddenly remembered that he had been married the week before. (Laughter.) Passengers on a tram in Auckland re. cently had a rather unpleasant experience, evidently intended by the person or persons responsible for it as a practical joke. As the- car turned into Customs street two young men walked through the car and closed the door after them. There was immediately noticeable a pungent odour, which threw all the passengers into violent fits of sneezing. The eyes were caused to water. Sneezing, and scarcely able to aee, the passengers left the car at the terminus, and the effects of the irritant did not disappear for several hours. A search was made for the young men i suspected, but it was discovered that they had alighted at the stopping place before the terminus.

The purchase by the Nen; Plymouth Borough Council of an extra storage battery for the electric motor 'bus will enable the tramways department to run the 'bus throughout the day and evening. When charged, the batteries will run the 'bus for 100 miles. 1 Then the 'bus may be run into the charging station and pick up the spare bcuttery, charged for another 100 miles. The 'bus, which has a capacity of 23 passengers, can negotiate gradients like the Carrington road and High School hills at a speed of six miles, and on the flat can do 18 miles. It is proposed to serve Westown and Fraavkley road and also Carriugton road and Avenue road, thus bringing these desirable go-ahead suburbs into closer touch with the town.

One of the curious objects, which attracted everyone's attention when the British forces entered Kut was a monument which had been i erected by the Turks to mark the surrender of the place mid the capture of General Townshend and his men. The best of it was that the monument was still unveiled—it still had its wrappings round it, evidently awaiting the arrival of some Turkish big-wig to perform the august ceremony. At the base of the monument were two of the naval guns which had been destroyed by General Townshend and thrown in the river before capitulation. These had been dug out and exhibited as, a tribute to Turkish prowess. The monument is still there —the British sense of humour would not allow it to be destroyed, as the joke was on the Turk.

A New York newspaper eays:—A man was fined S2OO ( £4O) for flirting on the Broadwalk this week, with an alternative of three months in gaol. The violater of Atlantic City's rigid code had quite a shock when arraigned on the complaint of two Baltimore girls. But cell bars held no charm for him, and he paid over the money. Recorder Edmund C. Gaskill said that if he had his way all flirtß would repose behind prison bolts. He followed by exacting the heavy fine fox this breach of shore etiquette. This was the first conviction under the new edict. Several arrests have previously been recorded, bnt in each instance tinman was permitted to go W'th a reprimand and warning.

Archbishop O'Shea, speaking at a prize-giving at St. Patrick's College, Wellington, said no matter what other people might do, he hoped that Catholic I parents would not fee tempted by the immediate rewards to send tlieir boys I to work as soon as they had completed their primary education, but would conjtinue their education so that they might | be in a position to lace the most serious after-the-war problems and responsibilities with stout hearts and trained minds. (Applause.) He was prompted to make these remarks by the extraordinary indifference to educational needs during the war shown by some men, even by some of the leading men in the country. (Applause.) Travelling about New Zealand, he had found that there was great dissatisfaction in the country because .the Government had. allowed the ranks of the male teachers to be so sadly depleted. (Applause.) Even now Military Service Boards were refusing exemption to male teachers; and some of tli em were showing the most frivolous lack of a sense of the responsibilities of their position, judging by the flippant remarks addressed the other day to a teacher who came before them. (Applause.) But they could rest assured that the Catholic authorities would do ail in their power to offer their children, j not only a full and sound Christian education, but a more complete and < flicient general education no matter what »ome people might say or think. (Applause.) ENGLISH HISTORY. Sir Walter Raleigh braved the storm And discovered ,1 valuable tree, That grew into fame, and you know itsname, Ti» the renowned ARCADIA TIA.