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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 31, 5 August 1910, Page 6

That little difference at the South Wellington School between the headmaster (Mr. G. Flux) and the School Committee continues. The debatable question ostensibly concerns the purchase of stationery, the committee resenting any interference with what it considers its just functions in the administration of the school's fina-nces, by resigning in a body, and continuing obdurate. The matter was referred to the Wellington Education Board, which, after consideration of correspondence dealing with both sides of the question, appointed the board's chairman (Mr. R..Lee) and the secretary (Mr. G. L. Stewart) as conciliation commissioners, whose functions were to bring about, if possible^ a better understanding between the parties with a view to the aggrieved cotnmitteemen re*cousidering their decision. Apparently the peace proposals have not moved the administrative school body. At a meeting held last evening the committee docided unanimously and emphatically that so far as the breach was concerned it did not intend to assist in the bridging of it. In other words, it refuses to resume office. It is stated that under such circumstances the board may proceed to the election of another committee at an early date. The second number of the Journal of the New Zealand Department of Agriculture is to hand. The contents are of a very useful character to farmers. Mr. C. J. Reakes, director of the Live Stock and Meat Division, treats of parasite gastritis in sheep, a disease which has caused loss to sheepownera in New Zealand for some years past. Mr. W. B. Bray, bee instructor, has a useful article on how to treat foul brod in bees. The manipulation of spraying oils for fruit trees is a. subject on which Mr. A. H. Cockayne gave a fine address at the recent Fruit Growers' Conference. Ho covers the ground again with several additions in the present number of the magazine. Other important articles are: "The Pasteurisation of Cream for Butter-making," by Mr. J. Pedersen, dairy instructor; "Tlie Export of Fresh Fruit," by Mr. T. W. Kirk, with reports on the recent Paparoai shipment from Nelson, which arrived on the market in a somewhat unsatisfactory condition. Mr. J. L. Bruce deals with tho poultry industry as fostered by the State. There are also interesting reports on hemp and tow, top-dressing of pasture, and maize and millet as green fodders, the British produce market, and New Zealand mutton in the American market. Novelty and originality in amy walk of life are worthy of recognition, even when found among those mysteries of a city, the street nomads, who toil so inconsequentially. Tlie unoriginal wanderer pleads for twopence to get a bed with, or "for another fivepence halfpenny to redeem his suit case or his little girl's boots." Yesterday an itinerant dai-ed to depart from these time-worn transparencies. Armed with a small file and an appealing manner, he accosted a benevolent-looking pressman, presented his file for examination, and applied for "twopence to buy another. " Of course an explanation was necessary, and, of course, it was forthcoming. In an elderly voice, the applicant, whose clothes were .not magnificent, told how he, a one-time fitter, had injui-ed himself while assisting in some repairs to a boat. 1 Thrown on a cruel world, he speculated in files, and eked out a livelihood as a travelling saw doctor. H-e put ah edge on other people's saws, that h« might Temove am edge from his own food waats. The harder part was yet to come. Obviously stirred to the "depths ■of Ms spirit, tlie wanderer described the villainy of some miscreants, who, in one dark hour, filched Iris tools of trade a-nd left him with but one small file between ihim and the wolves. H<ence his application for anothor and la.rger file. In support of his application the bei-eft one quoted the poets as to helping an afflicted brother. His great effort was as successful as it deserved. He received enough to buy three large files, aaid continued on his way, passing at least two hotels en route without once looking back. Says the Lyttelton Times : — The oat harvest of Southland for this year, judging from the amount of gTain carried to date over the railways, shows a shortage of more than 200,000 sacks from last year's harvest. The number of sacks carried up till last Saturday was 634,671, as against 842,195 sacks carried 1 during the same period of last year. At a meeting of the Stoke Fruitgrowers^ Association (report* tho Nelson Mail) it was unanimously resolved to enter a strong protest against the proposal of the State to pknt orchards by prison labour and 4ease them or sell them to orchardists when in profit; and further to ask the Government to confine the use of prison labour to the planting of forest trees. It was pointed out that the planting and care of fruit .trees required experienced men, and to use prison labour would be taking the bread out of tho months of such men. If snch a course were proposed in connection with any other branch of industry there would immediately be a great outcry from the Labour unions. ' At the last meeting of the Auckland Harbour Board a letter was received from the Marine Department in reference to the re-survey of Rangitoto channel. The letter stated that the Admiralty had approved of one op more officers of either the survey ships Fantcme or Sealark being detached temporarily to make a re-survey of Auckland Harbour and its approaches, after the vessel's return to Sydney to refit, about" the end of this year. The men are to be sent on condition ' that the 'New Zealand Government provide the necessary vessel and men and assist generally by erecting marks, etc. The works committee of the Board is at present considering the matter, and will furnish a report to the next meeting of the Board. Lord Islington, in officiating at the reopening of tho bazaar in aid of the Wellington Mission to Seamen yesterday, claimed that he addressed himself to the movement on behalf of seamen with a peculiar hereditary solicitude. ' Though he could not claim to ho a sailor him-Ec-If. both his father and three generations before him spent the greater part of their lives on the sea, in the Bnti-h Navy, and he was proud to say all in tarn attained tho rank of admiral. "So, perhaps," said His Excellency, "seamen may feel that, beyond the fact that I urn Goyomor of New Zealand, there is a certain personal appropriateness in my being associated with the'movement. Let me »0d that there is no group of the Empire's servants more honourably identified with the Empire's history than tho»e who go down to the sea in ships." The Timaru Post relates that there is at present residing in Timaru a man who has solved tlie problem of how to live cheaply. He lives on one shilling per' diem, and according to his own statement and appearance, does it comfortably. He is a foreigner by birth. The "home" wai built in Dunedln, and is practically a bunk-bed supported on wheels, and protected on top by a tarpaulin in ridged or tent formation. There is just suflScient room for the man to lie down comfortably. Die cooking utensils handy show the nomad is not above cooking his own meals, whi'3 the presence of newspapers and iv fUfk or two demonstrate that ho is capable of both mental and physical enjoyment. The mail is a labourer, and carries Hs home afaout with him whoever he goes. His profession is that he enjoys life and can live as comfortably on 7s a week in Timaru or elsewihere as the aver.age man can exist, jon "£1 -per week im ita bpajdjffiighsuse.