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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 96, 23 April 1912, Page 6

Amendment of section 90 of tho Public Works Act, 1903, in the direction of giving local bodies authority to order repairs to insanitary buildings is to be bought at the Municipal Conference, at the instigation of tho Wellington City Council. At the householders meeting last evening at Island Bay, Mr. 11. G. Hill proposed that the meeting should Conn itself into a Uatepoypiß* Association. After some discussion, the motion was dropped for lack of a seconder, but Mr Hill intimated that he would not let the matter rest at that. At the annual meeting of Roseneath householders, the chairman said that he did not think it fair that a teacher should lose a part of his or her salary if tho attendance of the claas or school he or sho was teaching decreased. He referred to a certain teacher in the Rosoneath School, who had loct £30 through lack of attendance on the part of pupils ; but, he eaid, now that tho classes, were becoming filled lie hoped to ccc her once more receiving the regular salary. The National Art Gallery i» to receive at further contribution, it was stated at a meeting of householder* at the Clyde-quay School last- evening, in the sbapo of a picture, to be purchased by the combined schools in Wellington, a subscription f<^r the purpose to go taken up at a certain, date. ■ A practice which other school committees might do well to imitate has been instituted by the Mitchelltown School Committee, whereby the school is disinfected daily by the sprinkling of the floors each afternoon with sawdust saturated with lysol or Jeyes' fluid. ''To this," states tho annual report submitted to the meeting of householders last evening, "the committee believes that the school's freedom from epidemics or serious eicimess is due. The total cost of this work, including sawdust, disinfectant,, and wages to boys for spreading same, only amounted to £1 2s for the eight months it has been in. vogue." "In connection with the senior cadet parades," ran a passage in tho report of the Brooklyn School laet evening, permission has been granted to the Defence Department for the use of tho school grounds and school for lecture purposes. Your committee has experienced, in conjunction with some other school com mitteee, a- difficulty In connection with the behaviour ni a section of tho cadets whilst attending parades. In justice to the cadets, it jnuet be stated that they aro npt wholly to blamo for all the damage to the school property, as others than the cadets aro allowed in tho school grounds. Your _ committee would appeal to those resident in Brooklyn, who nave sons attending parades, to impress upon them the necessity for preserving and protecting the echool property. It would be regrettable to have to institute Court proceedings, and the remark id made here with a view to warning possible offenders in the future." Mr. W. T. Grundy, headmaster of the Clyde-quay School', stated, at the householders meeting last evening, that arrangements had been completed with the City Council Library Committee to send supplies of library books to the various clasbea from Standard 111. upwards. Teachers and scholars were taking a lively interest in the movement, which, it was to be hoped, would spread through tho schools in the city and suburbs, and eventually even to remote country schools. Thanks to the courtesy and kindness of Mr. Baillie, the Chief Li brarian, and Miss Sievwright, the lady in special charge of the children's branch of the Public Library, very carefu) selections of books had been made by the teachers of tho classes interested, and 400 volumes were now at the disposal of the children. There should, be good results from this movement, which would p t laco the 1 healthiest and best literature in the hands of the children, stimulating them to a love of reading, which would be of lasting benefit all lives. , A strong protest against the reduction of teachers' salaries, through the fallingoff in attendance, due to causes beyond the control of the teachers affected, was made at tho annual meeting of the Te Aro district householders last night. Mr. W. J. Lankshear thought it was most unfair that Mr. Watson, the headmaster at Te Aro, 6hould ( have his salary reduced year after year because fewer children were attending the school. Many I parents had left the district to live in the suburbs, where rents are cheaper. Mi". Watson was not to blame because fewer parents were living in the district. Yet his salary was reduced on that account. Dr. Wallace Mackehzio asserted that the education system was being starved. The teachers should be better paia and women teachers should receive a* much salary as men in the profeeaion. Mr. G. C. Farland suggested thai the city committees should combine and wait upon tho Minister of Education to urge that teachers should not have their salaries reduced because, through no fault of their own, the number of scholars dwindled. The meeting agreed with, tho views of the speakers. One of the questions of paramount importance in tliis, the day of eveiincreasing size of ships, must undoubtedly be that of insurance, and as the craze for larger steamers goes on yet' further, tho position that arises now must, of course, bo felt greater. To-day, the ' million pound vessel is afloat' (says the Sydney Commercial News and Snipping List), and er© long, providing, of course, that the -tendency keeps on. this figure will be surpassed: then will come the struggle between the ownere and insurance companies. The vessol that to-day is covered at thei £1,000,000 mark costs just £500,000 more than that to build, yet even, to secure tQiat oovor the cooperation ol underwriters in all the leading insurance- markets had to b« secured. And tihen the underwriters are •guarded by a stipulation, that they will only be called upon to pay claims an excess of £150,000. With steamers of that # value_ being launched even on but rare occasions such, as one or two per year, it is only reasonable to believe that the million pound vessel will never be a frequent occurrence, but will be drafted into special trades, such as the Atlantic only, and negotiations for insurance will be extremely difficult t*> conclude. That is clear from the position the Hamburg-American Line finds itself in with regard te the new steamer Imperator to-day, «>o much so that speculation is rife- as to what will happen with the new Cunard steamer Aquitania, not yet launched. Fremiumi*, of course, will rise in accordance with the amount of insurances, but high as they can possibly be expected to go. the loss of say two of the £1,000,000 vessels, in addition to the wreck of some heavily-laden, valuable vessels of the ordinary liner, or even tramp class, in a space of twelve months would be a "facer" that would take some recovering from. The opinion was expreeeed by Mr. W. J. Thompson at tlio annual meeting of the To Aro district householders laet night that many State echool teachers were overworked through having to take charge of very large classes, and on nis motion it was decided — "That this meeting is of opinion that the Minister for Education be urged to bring into operation the schedule providing for additional teachers." To-morrow (Wlednosday) Ki,rkcaldie and Stains, Ltd . will offer attractive bargains in nino diffcient departments!, and the millinery bargains advertised on Saturday will also be available. — Advk