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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 152, 28 June 1924, Page 6

The Auckland Education Board has advised Mr. W. J. Jordan (member for Manukau) that its architect has been authorised to erect an internal par tition in the Panmure School. There are 120 children attending the school, S4 being in one room, where the work of five standards is done. This room is now to be subdivided. Xo tender has yet been received for the muchneeded improvement of sanitary arrangements at the echool.

At (lie Onchunga Police Court this morning, before Messrs. .7. E. Cowell and <J. Laking, J.IVs, a young man named lieorge McDonald pleaded guilty to having on May .'il last stolen a bicycle, valued nt £4, the property of J. E. Hill, Onchunga. The accused was convicted and fined £2, and the Bench ordered the machine to be restored to the owner. .Although not so prevalent as at this time last year, measles have made their appearance again during the present month among school children in Wellington. An official who a good deal to i.o with the school stated that in one class of r>o children :J0 were absent with (...s ailment. He also said that some parents were deliberately courting trouble in the case of convalescents from measles, who were allowed to leave the house too Boon. .Mistakes are liable to lie made by the besf-tained of thieves. One who "lifted" an overcoat from the rear i.f a motor car left in a dark street last evening, will have realised that ere this. The coat in question was a dirty, ..ily, rag K ed old remnant which the owner used when gating underneath the car, cleaning the engine, and performing such like unpleasant tasks. When not used for those purposes, it was left on the floor in the rear of the motor f<.r passengers to wipe their feet upon. The disgust of the light-lingered one, on taking his '"spoil" into a better light, can best be left to the imagination. The Tar-man Sea seems to be enterin; the lists with (ape Horn and the banks of Newfoundland, as to running the highest waves in tempestuous weather. The r-toamei U'aimarino, which arrived at Purl Chalmers with (1000 tons of coal from Newcastle, experienced the Taanian Sea at its roughest. Tiie crew as a whole reckon the waves were exceptionally liII;li: one man says they were the highest he has pcen in his forty years' experience of the pea. Another who has experienced the Cape of fiood Tlope, Cape Horn, and banks of Newfoundland in their stormiest moods considers that for height of wave 'lie Tasman Sea can easily hold its own. The waves, he eonsiiiers, were anything from -10ft to 30ft high. The tempest shrieked and white-ereßtcd roller.-, toppled menacingly, but, with the exception of a few minor damages to the deck fittings, the Waimarino came out of the storm unscathed. An advertiser of a bungalow "to let" had hi-; success minimised by other contingencies yesterday. Between four and six o'clock he had some forty appli cants, varying from a married couple to a mother with eleven children. Eventually tlie tenant was decided upon, and the owner put a notice on his door to announce that the home-seekers must try elsewhere. Imagine his surprise to find on returning later in the evening that the notice had been turn up and distributed about the verandah, and his front doormat had been appropriated. The advertiser i-- congratulating himself that he did not let his dwelling to that applicant, and contends that he got. off lightly by losing the doormat. The new conditions of life which face a young teacher who goes from the town to take a country school are often very trying. Board is difficult to obtain, and often it is much different from what he has been accustomed to at home. In addition, his lodgings are sometimes a good distance, from the school, and this entails a good walk to an.l from liis work. An amusing story is told by a young man who was recently appoii.ted us sole teacher in v remote school in Ottlgo. Arriving at the neare.-t railway station «onic miles from the echo I he whs in a quandary as to now to ge: to his destination with his lugg. ge. which as of a fair weight. There were no members of the fcohool committee to et him, and no kindly owi.er of .. motor was to be seen. About the only person who was in sight was a bearded .armer, who was unloading chaff from a truck into his cart. T!ie young fellow learned the farmer lived from" a truck into his cart. The young fellow learned t.at the farmer lived several miles up tue road which he had to take, and bargaired for a ride, if he assisted to unload the truck. This was agreed to, and the young teacher set to work with ii will. ' The task was completed, when another farmer appeared with a cart to iinloa 1 his chaff. The second farmer gave the news that lie lived near the school, and oliercd a ride. it, so the young fellow had to strip off only on co dition that th? teacher assisted him. There was nothing else for his coat again and unload a second truck before lie could get to his school. The importance of conserving bird life is stressed in a bulletin issued by the .Michigan Bird Conservation Commission. "If all birds should suddenly disappear, every plant, every tlower, every green leaf and blade of grass would be destroyed within two years! The birds form a vast aerial army for the destruction of insects, and man has no better friends than the birds. An oriole, for instance, has been known to destroy sixty-seven caterpillars in exactly one minute. A single family of jays will destroy a million caterpillars in a season. In the State of Nebraska it is estimated that birds devour 170 carloads of insects a day. The little wren destroys its own weight in insects every twenty-four hours. A single cuckoo is worth 1(10 dollars a season to the orchardist. 'No birds, no food.' say the scientists. Let's help conserve them." Mr. V. .1. Nathan, Mayor of Palmerston North, says that if the pork industry in New Zealand were properly developed in conjunction with the dairy industry, he is convinced that in ten years an export trade of ten millions could be worked up. He has been interesting himself in the matter for the past Uvo years or so. An additional billiard table has been installed in the members' lounge at Parliament Buildings in Wellington. It is built of Queensland maple and Tasmanian fiddle-back blackwood, in keeping with the two which were installed at the opening of- the new Parliament Buildings. The steamer Maheno, which left Sydney for Auckland at 1 p.m. yesterday, has 92 bags of mail for Auckland, including 13 bags "from beyond" (probably a small English mail), and live bags from the East. Mr. James F. Brown, a carpenter, slipped from a building on which lie was working yesterday, and suffered injuries to his face. He was taken by motor to his home in Cambourne Road, Edcndale, where he was medically treated. An electric wire at St. Benedict's Church presbytery fused yesterday afternoon. The City Fire Brigade extinguished a subsequent fire after a minor amount of damage had resulted. On Sunday evening, in the Strand Theatre. Mr." P. j Hickey will speak on "A Revolution in Medical Science," when he will deal with the claims put forward by those who have invrstigated the "Electronic Method of Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease,"' discovered by the late Dr. Albert Abrams.