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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1914, Page 6

Owing to the weather, the Hon. W. H. Herries, Minister for Railways, has abandoned his East Coast tour, and is returning to Gisborne, states a Press Association message from that place. At Caroline Bay, the Timaru Borough Council have taken £584 5s this season up to date from the bathing machines alone. From the tennis courts on the bay they have received £33 for the season. The municipal authorities have earned £736 10s for the summer so far. Matters of municipal policy from the Labour point of view were dealt with by Mr. Henry Holland in his candidature for the Mayoralty at a meeting of electors in Cloake's Hall, Thorndon, last evening. He received an attentive hearing, and was accprded a unanimous vote of thanks. A meeting of the old Waterside Workers' Union was called for last evening, the object being to take steps to register the union under the Arbitration Court. So small was the attendance, however, that it was decided to adjourn the meeting until some future date to be fixed. The following have been appointed a Commission to inspect and classify kauri gum reserves : —Messrs. R. P. Greville, F.R.G.S.,of Hamilton, Inspector of Surveys , S Stafford, of Wuipj, gum-digger ; ( - W. Stewait, of Kawakawa, chairman of the Bay of Islands County Council ; R. Hebden, of Waihopo, secretary of the Gum-diggers' Union ; J. M. M'Kay, of Waipu, farmer. The number of births registered in the four centres during the month of February numbered 575— Auckland 187, Wei-) lington 153, Chnstchurch 110, Dunedin. 125. The deaths were 233— Auckland 75, or 0.79 per 1000; Wellington 65, or O.SB per 1000; Christohurch 43, or 0.61 per 1000; Dunedin 50, or 0.76 per 1000. Of these 11 were due to phthisis, 2C to cancer, 18 to apoplexy, and 33 to heart [ disease. Regarding the recent aeroplane accident, a correspondent ("Christchurch Sport") writes to The Post :—" Please allow me to express my indignation at the behaviour of some of the Wellington people towards Mr. Scotland. It was contemptible to practically force the aviator to go up simply because if he did not they lost their ' shilling.' It seems incredible that. New Zealanders (who have a good sporting record) would ask a man to take the risk. Perhaps this,, particular species of sport is indigenous to Wellington. 1 hope so. I hope Mr. Scotland will return to Christchurch later and give some more of his j, brilliant exhibitions, where he will get decent conditions and sympathetic spectators. He is a brave man and a daring aviator, but is not a fool," "I noticed a great many young men intoxicated about the town on Saturday; night," commented Mr. E. Rawson, S.M., at the Hamilton Court on Mon-i day. "There were, in fact, more than I have ever seen before." He asked ,the police how they accounted for it. Sergeant Ha-stie said the town was full of scallywags at the present time. His Worship said that many of the young men were respectably dressed, and did not, from the cut of their clothes, appear to be of the scallywag class. His Worship asked if a sports "social" or any similar function took place on Saturday night. Sergeant, Hasti© replied in the negative, but said there were- a large number of strangers in town. HisWorship : "I was very shocked to see so many drunken people about. It was quite an accident." As the result of observations made while on a visit to Europe,' Mr. O'Callaghan, formerly Chief Commissioner of Police in Victoria, has recommended to the authorities in that State that it would be a good thing to use trained dogs as aids to the police in the detection and tracking of criminals. It is known (writes The Post's Sydney correspondent) that the authorities are partial to the idea, and their inclinations are strengthened by Mr. O'Callaghan's report. In the -opinion of Mr. O'Callaghan, a dog bred and trained in Australia would be more useful than an imported animal. It would probably require a few years' experimenting in cross-breeding to evolve the best stamp of dog. Unfortunately, there seems no prospect of such a diminution in crime that dogs would cease to be useful at the conclusion of the experiments. At any rate, there is a possibility of an early beginning being made with the employment of four-footed detectives in Victoria. Rating on unimproved value and its progress in New Zealand was the chief topic of discussion at the last meeting of the Wellington branch of the Land Values League. Mr. P. J. o' Regan, who presided, pointed out that the system had been adopted now in every considerable town in the North Island except Auckland, New Plymouth, and Wanganui. The forward march of the) movement in Great Britain was outw lined in a letter from Mr. R. L. Outhwaite, M.P. for Hanley, who stated that in Scotland no scheme of land reform would have_ a chance unless it included the taxation of land values. Mr. Arthur Withy expressed the opinion that the time was ripe for more vigorous propaganda, and suggested that they should frame a budget to tax land values and reduce Customs duties and railway fares. The Government should be asKed to submit it to a plebiscite at the next election. Several speakers favoured the suggestion on account o£ its educational value. Ultimately, it was decided to defer the question until the next meeting. A severe criticism of the lessons, contained in the text books of the primary classes in the public schools of New Zealand was made by Dr. Florence Keller at the inaugural meeting of the Civic League at Auckland (says the Herald). "How much better it would be," she said, "if instead of the usual sentences met with in the primer text books — 'the cat caught the mouse' — there were little stories telling of acts of gentle gallantry on the part of brothers to their little sisters, or of kindnesses shown by girls to their little brothers. We hear of many sad cases of little children being run over in the streets, but where, in all the school text-books, is there a lesson which tells a child that it is wrong to attempt to cross the road when there is a tramcar coming? Every sensible child knows that 'the cat caught the mouse,' and it seems to me to be waste of time trying to teach it the obvious. One of the things the women of this country need to do is to rise up and take an active part in reforming the school books of children attending the primary schools." "Conscience money" to the extent of £l 6s has been sent to the Collector of Customs at Dunedin. Value your furniture! Then get us to move it. Packing, handling, removing are an art with us. Our motor moves furniture into or cut of town. N.Z. Express Co., Ltd., 87-91, Custom-house-quay. — Ad vt . The winter sports have now begun in real earnest in Wellington, and while standing in the chilly winds watching the field 6ports or the airman in. his thrillingglory, we cannot help noticing between our moments of excitement the winter wind's effects on all around us, and nowhere do we ccc real sports who enjoy the game so much as those who are wearing C. Smith's sports ooate. They keep, the wearers warm on the chilliest day, and help that spark of real excitement to kindle all the while. The best sports conte obtainable in Wellington are at v C. Smithy ktd., go^puba-ftt-reet.— Adit.