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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 89, 13 January 1928, Page 15

That such an extensive market for cut blooms exists in Auckland, where practically every house has its own garden, is rather remarkable (says the “Herald”), and it is still more surprising that one grower, cultivating five acres at Glenfield, has been in the business for over 20 years, which takes us back to that unsophisticated period when people preferred to rent a whole house, instead of paying twice the money for a quarter of the space and calling, it a flat. It is this mode of life, leaving the tenant without the control of an inch of soil, which lias greatly increased the demand for flowers, and the mentioned grower admits that it is,easier to sell £2O worth of flowers in the Auckland of to-day than it was to sell 20s. worth in those far-off years when only weddings and funerals were considered occasions for the expenditure of money on the florist’s art. Off a section of the size of an average building allotment devoted to violets, £2OO has been taken in one season. “If the secondary schools would cease wasting the time of the boys by pretending to teach them bookkeeping, and instead concentrate on improving the handwriting of the lads, emplovers would be grateful.”. Ih] 5 remark was made bv the executive officer of an institution which recently advertised for a iunior clerk (says the Christchurch “Sun”). It received twenty-two applications, the feature being the bad writing of the bulk of the applicants This man stated that book-keeping learned at the schools was of no use. A bov engaged in an office was never nut in charge of a . set of books straight away He. might be put in charge of one. which had been opened, and 1 he would simply have to follow the method pursued.