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The suggestion is made by a correspondent ("Sport") A in a letter to the editor < of The Post, that in order to expedite the payment of dividends the Wellington Racing Club should install more pay-out boxes on the Trentham course. The value of the butter exported from ihe Dominion from let to 18th January vttm j8251,704, aa compared with £164,638 for the corresponding period of 1912. The value of the cheese exported was. £142,884, its compared with £108,074, but the Value of the frozien lamb exported was only £55,538, as compared with £74,740 for the corresponding period of last year. An accident of an unusual character occurred in Godber's Rooms, Cubastreet) last evening. Mr. Joseph Zachariah, who was attending the ''social" tendered to the South Melbourne cricketers by Messrs. George and George, was about to take a flashlight photograph 6f the company, when the magnesia exploded, with the result that he was burnt about the face and eyes. His injuries, although painful, are not considered to be' Of a Very serious nature. An echo of the Waihi strike was heard at the, Auckland Education Board's meeting yesterday (telegraphs oUr correspondent). At the Waihi schools there' were some very poor average* during the strike, affecting the teachers' positions. The executive committee of the board reported yesterday that it, had been informed that the regulations did not permit of the substitution of the December quarter average for 1911 for that of the December* quarter of 1012. When the strike was' in its most violent stages it was decided that the engagement of one assistant female teacher at the Waihi East School should be terminated by three months' notice, owing to decrease in the attendance 1 . Some complaint is made by the secretary of the Plumbers' Union againet the report published in the last issue of the Labour Journal, that employment in that trade wad ' very good last month. The officer in question informed a Pdst reporter ■ to-day that there are nine men on the unemployment book to-day looking for work. Enquiries" at the offices df the Labour Department show that the monthly reports are completed on infoimation supplied by employers, but every secretary of a union has a right to furftieil an independent report, and these ar« always included and published in the Labour Journal when they are sent forward. Another enquiry at the employing office of the Department showed that a competent plumber and tinsmith has been required for itawefa since' 6th January. » W/ith the idea } tto doubt, of fittingly celebrating Anniversary Day, a man named Leslie' Charles Finch, of Lower Ilatt, borrowed a motor-car from a garage* there, without bothering to mention the matter to the garage owner, and embarked 6h a "joy ride" down the Hutt-rauL The exhilarating effect of the ride> it would seem, prompted him to have sdme liquid refreshment with a friend, and the 'Bacchic influence^ apparently interfered with his driving powers on the way home, with the result that the oar collided with another motor-car which Was being repaired by three men at the side of the road. The car suffered as a result, while two of the ,men wefe hurt. The sequel to this escapade occurred at the Petone Court this morning, when, before Messrs. M'fiwatt and Wakeham, J.P.s, tfincli was fined £s— in default, fourteen* dayd' imprisonment— for being dfunk while ifl charge of a motor-cat 1 in 'a public place. While in Australia, Professor Kirk, of Victoria .ppllege, took note Of the i great advance in Ufliv^ffllty work. What impressed him most was the liberal expenditure by the New South Wales Government on Sydney 8 University andi iby the Victorian Government on Mcl- 1 bourne ■University. In .the last two years buildings costing £15,000 have been added to Sydney University, and two hundred scholarships of £60 a year each with fees have been established by the Government for students of proved' ability who need help. At Melbourne, one of the monb notable additions is the Veterinary Laboratory^ a fine monument td the energy and capacity of Profeesof Gilruth, one titoe Government Veterinarian i» New Zealand, afterwards Professor of Veterinary Science at Mcl« bourne University, and now Administrator of the Northern Territory. The laboratory ia probably the best equipped in the Southern Henikph«re, and is proving of immense value to the stockraiding communities of Australasia.