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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18135, 26 July 1924, Page 14

The general secretary of the New Zealand" Railway Officers' Institute (Mr R.. C. Morgan), in forwarding from the Council of the Institute a cheque for £5 5s to the funds of the Dominion Council of the W.E.A., wrote: "I may add that regret was expressed by a number of the members of the Council that the financial position' should 7 -not. warrant the making of a larger donation/as the useful work that is being accomplished by the W.E.A. throughout the Dominion i& thoroughly recognised by members of the Institute." The 'Wellington Chamber of Commerce adopted the following resolution from the Retail Committee: "That this committee wishes to draw the attention of the Council to the increase in the cost of distribution and of running a retail business, generally consequent upon the latest Arbitration award governing the retail trade. While every section of the retail trade will loyally support the Arbitration Court's award, the public must realise that any increases .must necessarily be passed on to the general consumer." The policy adopted by the Health Department in the North Island of prohibiting Maoris from holding tangis is beibg followed by the health authorities in Canterbury. Dr. T. Fletcher Telford, Medical Officer of Health for the Canterbury and West Coast Health District, has refused permission to the Rapaki Maoris to hold a tangi on a woman .who died at the pa on Wednesday. The Department's objection to the practice is that it is not in the interests of public health that the ceremony Bhould'be held,,especially if death has been, duo to an infectious disease. In the-case of the Rapaki native woman the cause of death was pneumonia. Mr Neville Chamberlain would have houses built to last only as long as they were in fashion. But the life of a house depends on the care spent on its upkeep. Some ' old buildings on Canvey Island, made of weatherboard and straw thatch, have stood the stress of thai, bleak spot for three centuries, even the thatched roof defying fire, flood* and hurricane. In half that t.inw> 6olid stone and massive oak have tumbled into ruin. It is not the builder so much as the successive occupiers who determine the life of a dwelling-house.