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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8451, 30 May 1907, Page 5

According to the Eltham Argus there is great business going on .in Taranaki in the buying, selling, and exchanging of farms. The sentimental feeling of attachment to farms, of which politicians made much, is not very apparent in this district. To buy and sell is the great aim in Taranaki, the result being that changes of ownership are going on with bewildering rapidity. A great quiet has come over Little Bourke Street, Melbourne (states the > Melbourne Argus). A ween ago it would have been remarkable had there not been a constant stream of Chinese passing up and down the street, popping in and out the doors. Now there are no Chinese, and the sound of music and dominoes is stilled. This is the result of the quarantining under the Gambling Act. The Health Officer wrote to the Auckland Board of Education, says a Press Association telegram,- stating that a general idea was prevalent that as soon as a disease of an infectious nature appeared a school should be closed. This was a measure that seldom ought to be enforced except in the presence of an actual widespread epidemic, not even then as a matter of routine, nor unless there was a clear prospect of preventing the propagation of the disease such as could be looked for from a less comprehensive action. As to the exclusion from school of particular scholars, it might be laid down as a principle that all children suffering from any dangerous or infectious disease should be excluded from a school until there was reason to believe they had ceased to be in an infectious condition. Infectious disease seriously interfered with the average attendance, and under the present method of payment it was a strong incentive to headmasters to urge the closure of schools.