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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 71, 23 March 1923, Page 4

■ A complaint has been ma.lt: from native source?, pays <a Wa-Ujranui paper of indignity to which native children are thoughtlessly subjected by some Kuropean tcafhcVf.. 'Tile children are at tinios asked to perform hakas. sometimes 'in tlio presence of visitors, and. in some instances, have been ln-au-n by the , teachers because they have refused to j make "lie primares (juikuna) which render ■ tlie haka more effective. The sensitiveness of the native mind is not understood 'by Europeans. :ind n.itive parents greatly resent their children Ix-ins placed on exhibition, as they term it. The complaints do not apply to YVangranui. wlipre xhp school teachers very rijrlitly consult the parents wiien native eliildren art , risked to perform at school functions. The Director of Kdncation i.Mr. .1. < aughley) expressed great surprise when acquainted with (lie incident allejed in the paragraph, and. after consulting a senior ofiicial elo.'ely witli the native schools, said he' would endeavour to ascertain the locality referred to in the paragraph.

A woman who went to fill the position of housekeeper to a settler, sought an order for separation and maintenance this morning before .Mr. \V. 11. MeKean, *.M\ The husband was represented by Mr. Inder. and the wife by Mr. S. Clarke. The story of the wife was that she was (>.', years" of age when she married her husband, aged t>9. His first wile had been dead two months, when she wari married to him. She went to the farm a-s housekeeper at first. She alleged she only received 8/0 from her husiband. She was married in May and left in the following October. In answer to Mr. Inder, witness admitted having received a letter from her husband askins her to return home, also that he .-ent 20/ for passage money. She also admitted that her husband never struck her. 'Mr. MeKean said there was no need to call the husband, and dismissed the information. -Mr. Inder fraid to the applicant: "The home i.- still there for you to return to if you choose."

News was received at Samoa on Febniarv 25 by wireless of the death of Mr. A. P. Low-is, late of Samoa. "Pip" Lewis, as he was penerally called by his friends, took an active part in the war in Europe, where he was gassed. He returned to Samoa übottt two years uro in a civil capacity, and for some time was employed by "the Treasury Department, which he left for New Zealand a few months ago, after being several times in hospital, his heaJth having ■broken down. Evidently the Great Adventure was too much for the frail young man, as the sufferings he had gone through at the front is the indirect cause of his early decease. •■'Local bodies in the Kin:; Country are now completing arrangements for t'ne reception of the Parliamentary delepatinn coming to tour the di-trict for "enlightenment .16 to its requirements," 'writes our Tc Kuiti correspondent. "The tour if- expected *.o begin on -\V* V ;«- ami finish on .May f.th, during which ■jme, according to present plans. Wai--.omo, I Horohantra, Kajigitoto, Via l'io and Ana are to be visited. It U intended to let tiie delegation understand the many disabilities the district is suffering from (i»-in;» to native leases and land tenure, and to point out to it mc suitability nf certain parts of the tounty for immigrants." After conference with representatives of the School Committees' Association and the Headmasters' Association, in acI'ordtuice with instructions from a previous meeting, the \Y<llin<rton Education Board approved of the following recojnmendations from the executive commi'.tee with reference to school holidays:— ''That the school Christmas holidays extend over pix weeks with such additions, determined by the day on which Christmas fails, as the board shall from year to year determine, the date of resuming to be iid near as possible February !; that the date be fixed by the board, and announced before .lime 30 in each, year: that in relation to permissive holidays the intention of the by-law is that closing op. account of picnic shall not exceed one day; that the attention of school committees be drawn to the by-law and that they be requested to arrange their holidays in such a way as to come within the by-law." Apathy is apparent in connection with the Birkenhead Council election. Beyond the two members participating in the mayoral contest. Messrs. Alfred Bartlett, and K. I \ Walton, no definite decision to again come forward for another term has been made by the other members. Mr. A. Turner has decided to retire, in addition to Messrs. Thos. Smith, Robt. Taylor. F. \V. McCowan, and Phil. H. Hayward. leaving only the Mayor (Mr. A. Iladtleld), who lias decided not to seek re-election to that office, and Mr. Lester Moller as the only possible candidates as councillors from the present members. Amongst new candidates suggested. Mr. S. S. Rout, secretary of tlie Birkdale Fruitgrowers' Association, has declined nomination. A suggestion has been made for a public meeting to arouse interest in the forthcoming elee-

The Dunedin Chamber of Commerce is organising a preliminary meeting of delegates from various bodies to consider what action should be taken to force the Government to build a new building for public offices on the site of the old post office. "An eyesore" and

"a standing disgrace' , was how members described the tumbledown building that at present houses the Lands Department offices. "You see jumble sale on it. instead of post office." said Mr. A. If. Allen, "and just lately it housed a menagerie. It is a humiliation to the city that its public buildings sl'.r-uM be loaned for such purposes." He nrged that the present was an opportune time to urge the matter on the Government, in view of the coming exhibition in l!)'2n.

Mr. Collings was tellinsr Aucklanders las; night aiiout the abolition of the sec-

ond chamber in Queensland, anil endeavoured to justify th eaction of the Queensland people. "A cluck on hasty legislation." he cried. 'They u-ed to go up in the lift, hobble into the chamber on two t-tick-. ami sit there with trumpets as large as gramophone trumpets trying to catch what was said. They averaged about eighty year- of age and -onic of them had forgotten how they ever got there. They coi.lil only talk about their ancestors. Yon sec they were likt potatoes--the !n:al ;urt jf them was underground."

i Reference to tiie recent p'li-oning of ! pigeons in Wellington was made at the I '..1-! nici'iiii- if the S.l'.i'.A.. wlii'n nirai-ix-r- of the committee reported that mmplainSs iiii.l ! 11 made to them regarding tilt- iHiitier. ai:rl that, they had been asked lif ;■!■• S.l>< \A. coidd do anything. The ir.-pe, ■-~.!•, i aptain Henry, explained that he could not take anion, as his information was that no cruelty had been practised in destroying the birds, the poison used apparently acting almost instantaneously. Two order- for adjudication in bankruptcy wore made at tlie Supreme Court this morning by Mr. Ju.-ticp Stringer. In the ease of "William Samuel Williams, shipowner, Onehunga. the order was made at the instance of John and I David Allen. In the other case, that of William Samuel Meek, draper, of Wliangarei. Frank S. Millington. of Thames, storekeeper, wa« the petitioning creditor. Kvrremely heavy gnles visited Southern llawko's Bay and Manawaui districts i says the Napier "Telegraph"), and trees in many ea.se? were uprooted. At Wooilville piece- of Timber were blown about like paper, while three telegraph pc.-t? were blown down. It was stated by residents that never hefore had sueli conditions been experienced. A correspondent informs -lie "Tlawom Star" that she finds that dry borax: sprinkled in and crevices in a hou-e will kill silver :i-:i. She states that the same Mi'rjstanee is effective in dealing with cockroaches. Tlic whole tragedy of an uniiappy married life was brielly stated i.y a wife at the Magistrate's Court this morning in the following wordo:-—"lt was eat and dog life. There was another woman in the case. 1 knew the girl; she was a friend of my oirn."