AUCKLAND ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1908, Page 2

AUCKLAND ITEMS.

military'instruction of boys. AUCKLAND, This Day. With respect to the military instruction oi boys after leaving school, Mr. C. J. Parr, at the meeting of the Education Board, remarked that it Avas a great pity that the people of tho country did not aA-ail themselves of the services of the cadets after they loft school. "We are only Avasting time and money," ho continued, "drilling and exercising'\ thousands of these- lads unless Aye folloAV tho matter up, and keep them at if after they leavo school. The ■matter should not bo left to the boys themselves." Mr. Parr moved that a deputation of the board should Avait on the Premier during his approaching visit to Auckland, and urge the matter -upon him for the consideration of the Defence Council. Mr. Htallworthy, M.P. : "The question is Avhether the board is prepared to advocate Avhat is practically a system of conscription?" Mr. Parr : "I say that the continuation,, of the movement should not be left to the boys after they leave school." Mr. Stalhvorthy : "Compulsory enrolment." The chairman (Mr. Bagnall) said he thought Mr. Parr's object Avaa £o arrange for some' method of organisation for the bays after they had left the ranks of the school cadet corps. GIRL LABOUR. Apropos of the question of girl labour a local professional man, avlio employs several lady assistants, remarked, in the course of an interview, that at first his experience Avas such that ho almost came to the conclusion that girls Avere totally unfitted for oifice work. Latterly he had employed girls av]io required their Avages to help keep the home together, and . not for pocket money. They were- Aery Avilling, and, seeing promise in their efforts, ho paid for a commercial course oc instruction for each of them, and )he sa^d : "They've more than repaid rrty expenditure. The I head one of tho lot I have so much conj fidencp in that I can leavo town for a Aveek, and knoAv everything will be properly managed . I gava her full" control, and she promptly reduced my staff, I added the salaries thus savod on to the salaries of thoso retained, and gets !,more Avork and better Avork from them ; than I did Avith the full staff." | TEACHERS' SPARE TIME. The extent to which school teachers should be permitted to augment their salaries by outside occupations during their spare time occupied the attention of the Education Board yesterday. It Avas stated that in one- case a teacher had been in the habit of publishing a periodical and canvassing for advertisements for it* "What about keeping coavs?" asked \lr. J. D. Mackenzie. "Or groAving cabbages?" facetiously suggested Mr. A. R. Harris. "Perhaps that should he stopped." Tho board, Avhilst not going so far as to place any embargo on coavs v and cabbages, decided that the publishing of a periodical for purposes of profit was 'nob a fitting method of filling in a teacher's spare time.