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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 105, 4 May 1920, Page 4

The Mount Eden Borough Council discussed at some length in committee last evening the City Council's proposals for ;increasing the tram fares. When the Council resumed, a resolution was passed jthat the Council refrain from expressing any opinion, and that, the niemhrrs decide to meet the other local bodies in conference at the Chamher of Commerce. The Mayor (Mr. C. Hudson) remarked that the Council felt it must liavo more data given to it as to the amount proposed to Tie realised by the changes, the number of passengers carried, etc. The passengers on the Niagara this morning included two naval officers from Toulon, 'who are on their wav to join the French sloop Aklebaran, "fitationed at Tahiti. "We must pet back to the lost art of nursing or in a few generations the race will bo extinct," said Dr. J. S. Reekie at the Leys Institute in the course of a lecture on food values. The. point cropped up at question time when someone wanted to know -whether milk and butter worn necessary in what is generally called a vegetarian diet. He said that for the young of each animal the mother's milk"wns thefood which could give the best and only the best results. If the prevalent system of artificial feeding was persisted in, there -would be no need for wars or pestilences to eradicate tho human race. When the question of alcohol was broached the lecturer said the daughters of drunkards were very rarely capable of lactation, and in one or two generations a drunkard's progeny would die. out. The city fire brigade received a call shortly after six o'clock this morning to >*os. 14 and Iβ, St. James' Square, the premises of Howard and Sons, cabinetmakers. The fire was confined to the second storey, the flooring of which was slightly damaged. The building is of wood, and of two storeys, and is owned iby Messrs. Smith a*d Caughey. The ! contents are insured for £580 with the j South British Insurance Company. TVJiile discussing road expenditure last night, .the Mayor of Mt. Eden, Mr. IC. "Hudson, mentioned that .tho work's committee, of the Council proposed that ii loan, of £50,000 bo authorised 'by the ratepayers .to put all the thoroughfares in the torough in good order. The money -would not be needed all at once but would foe epread over a period of 'five years, a sum of £10.000 being expended each yeaT. He said that many I hundreds of pounds were spent yearly In patching roads, whereas if they -were gradually placed in permanent order, the cost of saving in maintenance would j more than justify the expenditure. 'He considered tha-t if it cost not more than a -penny Tate for each £10,000, the scheme -would be a great ibenefit to the. borough and economical ito the ratepayers. On the Mayor's motion it "was decided to take steps to obtain the consent of the ratepayers to a loan of £50,000 for road improvement, the. loan to include. £1750 for the. laying out and improvement of Potter's PaT.k. % Among the passengere by the Niagara this morning who attracted some attention were four Tahitian soldiers, who ■were returning to Tahiti from France, where they had served under the French colours during the war. A deputation from the Returned Soldiers! Association waited on the Premier at Wellington yesterday to discuss the prevailing idea that advances for the purpose of placing returned soldiers on the land oroorj r finding homes for them in the centres of pouplation have been stopped or about to be stopped. Mr. Massey explained that nothing of the sort -was intended, that it had become necessary merely to slow down, and that it was impossible for the Government to go on finding money at the rate of over £1,000,000 a month, as it had done for the past eight months. Mr. Massey said !the Government would go on quite steadily, taking commitments.first, and when the House met sufficient authority would be asked for and. obtained to keep the department going.

Food is a subject which has a morbid fascination for tho unfortunate city dweller, wlin owing to modern conditions w robbed of the privilege of earning his daily bread by the sweat of his brow, as his forbears did when they lived nearer Mother Earth. The man who uses his body ac nature intended can gener ally eat anything, and does not suEfer from those qualms which beset the mortal doomed to paved streets and sedentary toil. At, the close of his lecture at the 1-iPys Institute last evening. Dr. .7. S. Reekie had to answer a pretty stiff examination paper at tho hands nt the. audience. On the question of Bait, which has as many adherents and opponents as free-trade, the doctor pointed to the craving of certain animals and savage races for it, and gave it as his opinion that it was an essential to human diet under the present day conditions. Tin' essential hydrochloric acid in the gastric juices was derived from common Bait. "No, I don't think a diet of entirely raw food would make the race stronger than it is," was his answer in regard to another fad. Hβ explained that some foods could bo advantageously eaten in tho raw state, hut man as at present constituted required the use of fire in preparing his meals. The doctor mentioned that he had seen photographs of come children in Mesopotamia drivpn to the diet of Nebuchadnezzar owing to the privations of wartime, and they had actually exploded. Their stomachs distended to bursting point. Before man could live entirely on raw food he would liavo to lie provided with a. new interior. Anions the resolutions carried at the meeting of .Mount Kflen householders last of the Education Act, providing that householders non-resident in the district are eligible for election to the committee. Another motion urged that assembly halls be provided in all large primary schools, and a third drew attention to the fact that while the schools were closed to guard against epidemic diseases among the children, tho picture Iheatrcs were allowed to remain open. Last year the Waikato miners took a. holiday for May Day, and they have done the same this year. But this day ofT followed the raihvav strike, and although May 1 was on Saturday, the men of the Extended, Rotowaro and Pukcniiro mines changed their holiday to yesterday, because Saturday was a mines were not working. But they are all at -work to-day, and both the owners and the railway authorities are co-opera-ting to distribute the output as quickly ac possible in order to make up the e.rtra shortage of fuel caused by tho strike. The Hikurangi mine.s started yesterday, when the railway arrangements became normal again. Tho Mount Eden Borough Council took exception last night to two of the clauses in the Public Works Department's proposed now tramway regulations. On** of the proposals ivas that cars should be licensed to carry standing passengers equal to f>o per cent of those sitting, while another throw on the local bodies the onus of providing street lamps to give " adequate view of full "width of road for at least 120 ft. in advance on clear nights and 100 ft. on dark nights." The Council decided to urge the deletion of these clauses. A small draft, comprising two officers and twenty-two of other ranks, will return to New Zealand by the lonic, which is due at Auckland on May 15th., The draft, which is under the command of Captain L. T. Gibbs, M.C.. of Reefton, includes ■'"crgt. J. G. Nilson. of Auckland. Mr. Justice Pini having left for Dunedin on Saturday, there is no judge of the Supreme Court at present in Auckland. The next civil sittings will hegin on Monday next. May 10. and the criminal sitting* on the following Monday. May IT. It is probable that Mr. 'justice Cooper, now nt the Court of Appeal in Wellington, will take the civil business, but what judge will try the criminal cases is not known nt present. The question of the grading of teachers will he discussed in Wellington next week at a conference of inspectors. Wellington members of the executive of the Xew Zealand Educational Institute, and of representatives of teachers in each of the education districts. The Auckland delegates will he eeloeted at a special general meeting of the Auckland branch to be held in the Training College, on Friday morning next. In the course of the year ended March •31st last, OS building permits were issued in the Borough of Mount Eden, the value of the buildings being ti1,380, while added to this amount was £14,743 for alterations to buildings. 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