ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 80, 6 April 1910, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[BY TELEGRAPH — *fcESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, sth April. The police have been advired that a man named Junies Stewart, residing with, his mother at Sawyer* Bay, committed suicide this afternoon by shooting himself with v pea-rifle.

The domestic servant difficulty hat become so acute, says the Manawatu Standard, that married couplet are uoyr often engaged for farms when it is really the wife's services alone that are required. A good domestic in a farm household can command at the present time £52 (and found) a year, whereas married couples can be got for as low as £72 (and found) per annum. An efficient ploughman and farm labourer, with a wife who is an efficient general servant will not- accept under £120 a year. These details cast an interesting sidelight on the question of emigration, and show that while children ar« regarded as some disqualification against employment, little actual hardship is caused thereby, and certainly the position is not so serious v writers in England have alleged. A meeting of the School Commissioners for ihe Wellington Provincial district was held to-day. Present : — Messrs. J. R. Blair (in the ch*ir), W. H. Field, M.P., F. Y. I^thbiidge, and James Mackenzie. The following allocation of funds was approved :—Wellington Education Board, £452 13s 4d; Wanganui Education Board. £247 65.8 d.; total for primal y education, £700. Wel-J Hngton College/ £43 16s 2d ; Wellington •Ciiis' High Srhool, £18 145 4 d ; Waugunur Girls' High School, £18 18s 4d ; Palmerston North High School, £18 11» 2d ; fetal for Mcgßfrrj efegftffej), _<UOO. {