ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 29, 28 October 1932, Page 13

ITEMS IN BRIEF

About People and Events POST IN COOK ISLANDS Dr. Edward Bohan Ellison, director of the Division of Maori Hygiene since .1927, has bqgn appointed a commissioner of the High Court of the Cook Islands. . Dr. Ellison was bom at Waikanae in 1884, and he was educated at Te Aute College and Otago University. In 1919 he was appointed resident medical officer at Niue Island, and in 1922 he was Resident Commission at the island. Later he was resident magistrate and medical officer for the Chatham Islands. In 1925 he took a postgraduate course in surgery and visited Samoa to study tropical diseases. He also studied at tho Makogai leper station, and in 1926 was chief medical officer for the Cook Islands and Resident Commissioner. Students at Hospital. On the casting vote of the chairman, Mr. F. Castle, the Wellington Hospital Board decided yesterday that, in order to bring the Wellington Hospital into line with the other base hospitals, the privilege of living-in allowed to sixthyear students be discontinued after the present year. Extended Scope. Mention was made at the annual meeting of the District Nursing Guild of St. John of the increased facilities for service which would be afforded the guild when the St. John Ambulance Association took over its new premises in what was formerly known as the Pentecost Hall iu Vivian Street. This hall is now undergoing alterations to suit the work of the Order of St John in Wellington. Grading of Teachers. The present methods of grading teachers in New Zealand, and the way in which most teachers, to secure promotion, had to transfer to a school where a more highly-graded position was vacant, were briefly referred to by the Director of Education, Mr. T. B. Strong, at Christchurch. “I am not claiming that the present system of grading teachers is the ideal,” he said. “Personally I like the English system better. There teachers arc paid according to their ability and length of service, and can get promotion in the school where they hold a position at the time, without having to transfer.” Lower Prices for Lunch. During an impromptu debate on the cost of living, which took place in Conciliation Council yesterday, the Commissioner, Mr. W- Newton, interposed with the remark that as it was lunchtime an adjournment was desirable. One of the employers’ assessors saw an opportunity of clinching his argument that food prices had fallen considerably. “This time last year we paid one-and-six for our lunch,” he said. “To-day we can go out and get it for a . bob.” A workers’ assessor wanted to know where. "At lots of places,” said another employer. “A bob is all lunch costs me.”