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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1909, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL There does not seem to be much obvious connection between timber and J^read, though loaves have been prepared from sawdust. The Timberworkers' Conference, however, this morning liad to consider a question sent up from Canter bury in regard to bakeis' coupons. A Canterbury delegate alleged that the coupon system might give an avenue to fraud. He moved, and the conference adopted, the following motion :—": — " That the Government be urged to pass legislation during its first session of Pailiament preventing the sale of coupons by bakws (in particular) and other tradesmen, as the purchasers thereof have no guarantee that the goods will be forthcoming on presentation of the coupon." What kind of an order paper will be prepared for the Education Conference which is to take place early this year ? The Post has already urged that the authorities should frame a programme and give adequate notice of the subjects to be discussed, and it has been submitted that unless a definite "plan is thought out some weeks before the delegates are summoned^ together, the assembly's power for "good may be very seriously discounted. A correspondent, "Nemo," suggests that subjects might be allotted on a geographical basis, thus : • — Arithmetic, inspectors and teachers of Auckland j geography, Wanganui, Taranaki, and Hawkes Bay; history and English, Wellington ; technical education, Canterbury j nature study and science, Otago. "Nemo" also suggests that experts should be invited to speak on special subjects, and that women teachers should be* asked to offer recommendations in reference to the education of small children and girls. The allocation of subjects to special districts may not. appeal to the bulk of educationists. If reformers have better ideas they are invited to put them forward. The Parliamentary party which attended the Marlborough Jubilee' celebrations returned to Wellington by the Tutanekai about 12.30 this morning. The postal authorities advise that the Moana, which ieft Sydney on Saturday for Wellington, has on board an Australian mail, which is due here to-mor-row morning. " Tramway concession tickets, at half the price and half the quantities previously made the minimum, will be available to suburban dwellers on and after to-morrow. The case Wade and others v. Hardley and another will be taken at the Court of Appeal to-morrow. Plaintiff prays for an injunction restraining de-> fendants from infringing on a certain skylight patent. The owners of the missing steamer Duco state that the three life-belts washed ashore at Palliser Bay do not answer to the description of those on board the Duco, that the life-belts on the Duco had no blue design, as on the belts picked up at the bay. "A man carries his life in his hands the whole time working for the masters," said a delegate to the Timberwoikers* Conference to-day. "Nearly etfpry timberworker is marked in some way." "Yes, here you are," cried another delegate holding up the stump of a finger. "And here," said a third, displaying a crippled thumb. "What about me?" came from another -showing a maimed hand. "We've all .been in the wars." In bush sawmills particularly nvas there danger. Several delegates mentioned accidents occurring in mills fifty, sixty, and seventy miles away from, a doctor. ' One worker told how tho horses bolted on a bush tramway and the trollies went over him. It was twenty miles to a doctor. There was no provision in mills for first-aid. It was decided to recommend the Government to legislate that all sawmills should be equipped with a stretcher, medicjne chest, splints, and bandages, together with'' a printed card of instructions. Timber workers are naturally very much opposed to the —importation of manufactured timber, but iew could go to the lengths of a delegate at the present conference. He had a suspicion, he said, of certain cases consigned to certain timber merchants, and in order to find out' what was inside he got one lifted up on the wharf and. then dropped. The device proved effective. I The case burst open, and disclosed a i quantity of mouldings from Sweden. This case was not the only case of imported manufactured material. The kauri workers in Melbourne were able to export to New Zeal.md, kauri furniture cheaper than could be obtained in the land of kauri. The kauri-makers in the Victorian capital,' he added, were mostly Christian Israelites, with Biblical names. Absolom in the factory where the speaker had worked, was a woodturner, and he and Reuben used to be pitted against one another. The speaker had worked for a particular Melbourne firm for eight years, and "if I had not' got out of it," he concluded, "I should have been under the sod." To the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's R.M.B. lonic, which arrived last night from London and Plymouth, via Capetown and Hobart, belongs tho distinction of being the first merchant vessel visiting New Zealand waters to be fitted with wifeless telegraphy. The apparatus, which is the " invention ,of Lieut. J. Holland, E.N.R., the second officer is installed between the main and the mizzen masts, and was fitted when the ship was last at London, as the result of an arrangement between the vessel's owners and Lieut. Holland. On the voyage down the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay, the liner was in almost uninterrupted communication with the land, messages being received from the postal station at "Bolthead, from the Lizard, and Dieppe on the French coast, while a number of messages that were travelling in various directions from steamers in the North Atlantic were recorded on the lonic's instrument.. On passing the C;ipc, it was hoped'thut tome communication would be received from the Union-Castle liner Sabine. which is engaged in a s>earch for the overdue Waratah, and is fitted with wireless telegraphy. Nothing, however, was received." The apparatus on the lonic has a radius jof a hundred and ninety miles at sea, and Lieut. Holland explained to, a Post Reporter that the system was more of an experiment at present than anything else. While on the New Zealand *coast, it' is hoped to establish communication with warships fitted with tho apparatus. \ The famous Walk-Over Shoe, for men, is only to be had at Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd. See eve"ry pair bears the brand on the sole. Shoes from 28s 6(1. Bootfi 31s 6d.— Advt