An International Congress of Nurses will be held at San Francisco in May next. The meetings will be held in a building within the Panama- Pacific Exhibition grounds, and there will 'be delegates present? from, all parts of the world. New Zealand will be represented. " The subject of midwifery training and reciprocal recognition," says the Kai Tiaki, or Nurues' Journal, ' ' has been much discussed of lato, and if such discussion should lead to not only a reciprocal recognition^, but a uniform system of training in this important branch of nursing in all British countries, at least, some good would result. New Zealand has set a fair standard as regards term and curriculum of training, and has instituted a uniform examination and legislation by the State ; besides establishing State training schools in the chief centres. In this she^is ahead of the other ' Australasian States. ' ' A fatal fire, in which a man and a woman lost their lives and several others were badly injured, occurred in the Manchester Boarding House in Courten-ay-place at 3.30 a.m. on Sunday. The circumstances arc reported elsewhere in this issue. At 9.40 a.m. another alarm was received, and the brigade extinguished a Ore in a .small building in Old Cus-tomhouse-street. Part of it was used as a stOro room by Mr. Walter Smart, and part by Mr. Robert Macauky, advertising agent. There was practically nothing in the building, and the damage done was roughly assessed at £10. There was no insurance on the premises. Petone- is to have a new picture theatre, which will bring the number of these entertainment houses in the suburban ( town up to three. The new theatre, in which provision has been made for a picture show ? various entertainments and meetings, is being erected by the Petone Working Men's Club, and will be situated at the rear of the club's premises. The building will be of brick and concrete, and will bo capable of seating about 1000 people, 200 in the dress circle and 800 downstairs. The theatre, which has been leased by a local picture syndicate, should be completed in about five months' time. The architect, Mr. James, Bennie, received several tenders for the work of erecting the theatre, and that of Edwards and Son (£2983) has been accepted. / The annuaJL, report of the South Island Dairy Association says:— "Our dairy division has, as ever, been of the greatest assistance to the dairy industry. Ml. Cuddies staff are a credit to him ; they all act with tact in trying to improve milk quality. Mr. Cuddies latest idea of paying for milk according to quality should be adopted, and much of this difficulty will then be overcome, 'lhe assistance they gave in organising whey-butter plants at cheese iactonea has proved most valuable, and their arduous work in testing the Holstein, Ayrshire, and Jersey breeders' cows will prove most valuable in that any farmer can know what he is buying as to its pedigree and milk record. A mere show-ring record is not enough for a dairyman to purchase on. They carry Out their duties as graders in a most satisfactory tnanher, but, of course, could go closer into thiß matter if we decide to erect cold stores at > all ports. " The importance of getting the . cash in eases where subscriptions are promised has been borne in upon the officials of a certain local association, says the Christchurch Press. A subscription of .a fairly large sum was promised by a gentleman who died before he handed over his cheque. Ab the amount was not mentioned in the deceased gentleman's will his executors raised legal objections to paying it, and a somewhat complicated process has had to be adopted to give effect to the promise. The chief beneficiary under the will is still a minor, and if the chief beneficiary were not a minor the sum promised could only be spent out of the revenue from the estate. The local association is to obtain the sum promised on the undertaking of one' oi its prominent members to guarantee the repayment of the amount should the chief beneficiary under the will decline to recognise the association's 1 claim. The association, on the other hand, has undertaken to indemnify the membor who has guaranteed repayment of the amount, i The need for forming some organisation for • dealing systematically with applications for charity, was mentioned by a number of the clergymen who were witnesses in the fraud case which occupied the attention of Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., at Auckland on Friday (reports * the Herald).' Ministers of several denominations stated to a Herald representative that the applications made to them for charity were very extensive. One remarked that he had given between £25 and £30 in three years to persons calling at his house. It -was stated that a large amount was distributed annually by the churches. While many deserving poor received no aid, because they would not beg, there were many impostors, who went from one society to another, and from one clergyman to another. What was wanted, one ministei explained, was an organisation into the funds of which every church and benevolent sopiety should pay its contributions. This society would have agents working in conjunction with the relieving officer of the Charitable Aid Board, whose business it would be to investigate all cases, and give relief where necessary. Not only would such a system result in a) more satisfactory distribution of funds, but it would also prevent impostors from operating. The members of the Kauri Gum Commission, who have now completed an. extensive tour of the Hokianga, Mangonui, Bay of Islands, and Whangaroa Counties, have, for the past week, been visiting the gumfields in the vicinity of Whangarei. In his opening remarks prior to hearing evidence at Whangarei, the Chairman of the Commission (Mr. R. P. Greville) pointed out that 203,000 acres was set apart ao gum reserves, this large area having been reserved on the recommendations of county councils, often in the most haphazard manner,^ chiefly during 1898 and 1899. Many of the lands set apart on the strength of reports from a council's engineer had never contained gum, and the present Commission, by taking evidence, would be in a position to recommend to the Government how to deal with lands that were non-gum-bearing, as well as with the lands that Were gum -bearing only to a. sligK extent. In 1898-9 there was not the same demand for land for settlement purposes as existed to-day, and he considered that the Commission would be a, great help to the Minister ior Lands ill his endeavour to find lands suitable for settlement. In tho Whangarei County, within a radius of twenty miles from the town, there were gum reserves of a total area of 24,000 acres, and it was the object of the Commission to find out how many gumdiggers were working on these fields, as well as what use was being made of the land. The principal interest of the sitting centred on the Paraha.ki and Otaika gum reserves, close to Whangarei, and severnl witnesses urged that these lands should be thrown o.pen for closer Settlement. It wan stated that in some cases the land had not been dug over for forty years, n-nd that it was now growing noxious v weeds. Several gumdiggers stated that the industry was declining, that the diggers were migrating, and that tho fields were not carrying the «anip floating populationa they did in former years. One of the witnesses said that his average earnings were only 20b
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 116, 18 May 1914, Page 7
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