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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1913, Page 7

In an Auckland telegram appearing elsewhero, tho Hon. F. M. B. Fisher is rerjorted to havo stated that 70 enquiries regarding military pensions have reached tho Government in completed form to date. The number should read 700. The formation work of the Upper Wil-liß-street and Brooklyn tramway duplication is completed, and the municipal authorities are now awaiting the arrival of the Tails from England. In the endeavour to secure two suitable centrifugal pumps for the septic tanks at Lower Hutt, tho borough engineer (Mr. W. J. Roache) left for Christchurch by last night's boat. Tho Petone West School Committee has decided to join with tho Petone High School Committee in protesting to the Prime Minister against tho discontinuance of free books by the Education Department, An area of 3500 acres, in Southland, known as the Maori Hill Block, f wili J>q opened for selection on renewable leo*e on 26th March, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908. The block has been divided into ton sections, ranging from 117 acres to 568 acres. Up to the prpsent about £50,000 has been spent during the financial year on workers' home»"in tho Dominion. The Prime Minister told a Post reporter this morning that in many places the Government had aofc be«n »b3« to do an much in thie direction aa it would like, owing to the ehortago of funds. Applications for homee were coming in very freely, and the Department was negotiating for the purchase of several blocks of land. Due here j&eit Tuesday, the Now Zealand Shippifle Company's liner Ruahiue, is bringing aboni 450 third-class passenferg to Wellington. As such they may c regarded as immigrants. Included in this numlwr are 79 who are travelling under the Government's assisted-passage scheme. Among them are 18 vn\e& — all coming out to their husbands in New Zealand— 26 children, 25 domestic eervante, and 10 farmers. Twenty-three of the children and five of the famars were nominated by relatives in New Zealand. Knowing that practical demonstration is a mxKih. better method of instructing pupils in science than the theoretical method, the Petone West School Committee aome timo ago decided to erect a science laboratory for * the pupils. Towards this end the committee raised £50, and this the Education Board snb'sidised by another £100, with the result that the laboratory, the erection of which was commenced some ( weeks ago, is rapidly Bearing completion. In a fortnight's' time .the structure, which is erected at the rear of the schoolhouse, will be finished, and later will be fitted up with the necessary appliances. The Stratford correspondent of the Taranaki Herald, writing on the 20th inst., says s— "The factory pay-out today ag^ain makes a new record for January milk values. The district should be just bursting with prosperity, but somehow things are not quite as they should be. In spite of the efforts of the Government, of factory directors, of the A. and P. Association', in spite of the stores , of literature devoted to the matter, of rural courses' at the Sigh School, and othar agencies, farms do not generally show an advance in productiveness at all commensurate with the enormous advance in the capital required to run them. In fact, there are many that show no advance at all. The land is under-manned and over-capitalised." In the Febmary number of The Ans> tralian Journalist, tho organ of the Australian Journalists' Association, Mr! Henry Willis, Speaker of the New South iWales Legislative Assembly, has a spe-cially-written article dealing with New Zealand journalists. Some he liked, and aome he didn't. (In parenthesis, some of them were kind to Mr. Willis and some weren't.) Some of th» reporters, he says, would adorn Hansard m New Soiith Wales — which may mean that Mi. Willis may help them to do so. Mr. Willis was" very favourably impressed with the standard of journalism in New Zealand. "The journalists of the Doflrmion," he writes, "appear to regard themselves as the servants of the people, apd the welfare of the State their special mission. The susceptibilities of advertisers have no effect upon them. There being so many journals of the first grade within the Dominion, the man of ability is •Dt dependent upon the smiles and favours of the churchwarden of a parish pump. . . . The courtesy and kindness of the journalists of the Dominion I shall long remember. Representatives of fourteen newspapers interviewed me, and in many cases several times each. Editors and proprietors called on me."