N.Z. TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9073, 25 April 1908, Page 5

N.Z. TELEGRAMS.

BY TELEGRAPH— J KKH.S A.SaOCIATIO.\. NATIVE LANDS COMMISSION. WELLINGTON, April 24. Further legislation to facilitate the work of the Native Lands Commission will be introduced by the Government next session. It will, it is understood, be in the direction of providing for the work of 'the commission being carried on by Maori Land Boards. ALLEGED THEFT. WELLINGTON, April 24. John Sidney Hines, who has long been wanted by the police in connection with the theft of £lls froma deaf and dumb man named David Sutherland, who was afterwards found drowned in Wellington harbour, was arrested some days ago in Auckland, and remanded to Wellington, where he appeared before Mr Riddell, S.M., this morning. On the application of the police, a remand was granted to the 29th mst. The offence with which Hines was charged, the theft of £lls from David Sutherland, is alleged to have taken place on the 27th May last. NEW ZEALAND EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. A COMPARISON. AUCKLAND, April 24. Mr H. A. Millies, 8.A., Principal of the Training College, addressing the Auckland Educational Institute, said that it was a treat to come to New Zealand and see the people healthy and happy, with time to laugh. In some of the Home schools it was painful to see the suffering of the little children who had often to be provided with breakfast before an attempt was made to teach them. The New Zealand pupils in ths State schools were a better class, and possessed more intelligence than the children attending the Home schools. He regretted the strong; movement in England in favour of the abolition of corporal punishment. In his opinion it was impossible to do without it. In New Zealand physical geography was overdone, and singing was not properly attacked., The teachers status here was better than in England, but the salaries were *bout the same as here. Teaching infants here required special attention. To place 120 infants in one class was little short of criminal.