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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 105, 5 May 1915, Page 6

At a meeting of the' Maungakiekie Golf Club, held last evening (says a Press Association telegram from Auckland), it was decided, on account of the present situation arising from the war, not to pla.y the inter-club match against Waitemata on Saturday, and it was also decided in the meantime to cease publishing reports of club matches. The adjourned inquest concerning the death of Mr. George Eeichardt, who died suddenly at the Royal Oak Hotel somo weeks ago, was concluded yesterday by the Coroner, Mr. D. G. A Cooper, S.M The police put in a certificate from the GoveiTiment Analyst stating that there were no traces of poisoning. A verdict that death was due to heart failirre was returned. Some months ago people in the country districts of Hawkes Bay were praying for rain (says the Hawkes Bay Herald). The hills and plains were in a frightfully parched condition, and Btock had to be taken to pastures new It was indeed an anxious time 'for farmers, who were forced to sell their stock for a mere pittance. Then their hearte were gladdened by a spell of rain, aud in' a, few days the grass began to shoot up everywhere. The barren hills once more assumed their green hue and a plenteous supply of winter pasture was available. The country round Havelock, Fernhill, Taradale, and Petane is now in excellent condition, and affords splendid grazing for thousands of head of cattle and i sheep. "I am of opinion that tho present method of medical inspection could be very easily improved upon," stated Mr ; J. D. Hopkirk, headmaster of Brooklyn ! School, in his annual report. "In the i first place, the teacher is not qualified j to do the work, and so it should devolve upon a doctor to examine the child; secondly, in a district such as this, there ! is little use of pointing out defects in i teeth, hearing, etc., unless the Govern- | ment is prepared to give some assistance , to have the remedies applied. Although not prepared to propose another method, I think it might be possible to give authority to the head teachers of at least the large city echools to send any child for examination to the nearest medical . practitioner, tho cost incurred to be paid by the State." An interesting account of the growth of the Brooklyn School is given in the I annual report of !the headmaster (Mr. J. D. Hopkirk). One of the rooms of the present school was opened as the original school at Vogeltown on 3rd September, 1883, by Miss Warren, as sole teacher. Nine children were enrolled on that day, four belonging to the Short family and four to the Hendrikeen family. In 1898 the school was removed to Brooklyn. Mr. Hopkirk was appointed headmaster on Ist May, 1899, and has therefore just completed sixteen years' service. From 1899 onwards the history of the school has been a record of additions to the bnildtngs to provide accommodation for the constantly increasing number of scholars. For the last quarter covered by the report the average attendance was 653. A dispute as to which firm had earned the commission formed the basis of two civil actions which were before Mr. W. G. Eiddell, S.M., at yesterday's sitting of the Magistrate's Court. In the first instance, Thomson, Brown, and East, real estate agents, claimed from George I Wm. Godfrey Davies, clerk, of Karori, ! the sum of £26 17s 6d, allowed to be due for commission on tlm sal« of property at Hataitai. Plaintiffs claimed that, under written instructions, they had sold the property at Evans Bay for JGB7S. Lengthy evidence was heard, and the case was adjourned until Tuesday next. In connection with the same sale, J. D. Martin M'lntyre and Co. claimed a similar amount of commission, but this case was not reached to-day. • Mr. 0. Beere appeared for Thomson, Brown, and East, Mr. A; W. Blair for J. D. Martin M'lntyre and Co.. and Mr. Martin Luclrie for the defendant. An unusual complaint has beew made against the head teacher of a school in North Otago. At the annual meeting of householders on Monday la-st the committee reported as follows : — "For a considerable time the school ground has been the happy hunting ground of a number of fowls, the property of the headmaster's household. Many complaints have reached us as to the lunch being snapped from the hands of the children, even under the very roof of the school, and as to the children's clothes being soiled by contact with the seats in the shelter-sheds, where the birds at times perch. To all our requests /or the nettmg-in of these birds the headmaster turned a deaf car, and we were at last compelled to ask the Board of Education to enforce- their authority in the matter. We have been informed by the board that they have called on the headmaster to take- steps to keep his fowls from overrunning tho school grounds. We have yet to learn of the success of our efforts." In one of a series of chatty articles which he is contributing to the Wanganui Chronicle Mr. James H. Stevens, late of the Post and Telegraph Department, says: — "Before Hawses Bay Agricultural College days Tasmania imported £45,000 worth of butter yearly. Then the Principal (Mr. Potts) was sent down to put his finger or his foot on the weak spot. This he did by showing them how to work co-operative dairies and sending his skilled lads to manage them. Their butter now ranks beside their rosy apples. Then came liis recommendation to appoint Mr. T. W. Kirk, of New Zealand, as_ Director of Agriculture. Local prejudices were too strong, but Mr. Potts has unbounded faith in his man, and has since recommended him for a similar position to the Board of Agriculture in New Zealand. £50,000 is necessary for a start in establishing such a college in New Zealand, with a subsidy of £5000 per annum. The New South Wales Government spent £150,000 on Hawkesbui-y which, though established as a school, is now directly self-support-ing ; though its primary object as aiot to pay but to introduce best methods into every farm house in the Commonwealth." At a time when living is dear, it seems a pity that fruit should be going to waste at Tonga, but such is stated to be the case by Mr. S. Wyatt Chatfield, Deputy Commissioner at that island. What is needed to avert that (says the Auckland Star) is a boat from Auckland to Samoa via Tonga, which on her return from the' former place would make .1 second call at Tonga. By that means stores and mails would be delivered from Auckland, and upon the return of the steamer from Samoa the fruit could bo shipped, and have a chance of reaching Auckland in good condition. For such a service a passenger boat is not necessarily required, as an eloveh knot tramp would do all right. Mr. Chatfield estimates the annual loss to tho natives at Haapai for want of such a service at about £12.000. as under favourable conditions 4000 cases of fruit could be shipped monthly. Since the steam service has been altered plantations aa-e going to ruin because natives have no market for their fruit. Mr. Chatfield stated that Tonga formerly exported 80,000 to 100,Q0Q cases of fruit annually, and imported goods to the value of about £220,000, fully half of which came from Now Zealand. It ib therefore evident that the natives of Tonga are not the only losers through the need of a more suitable service. Under the present system, fruit shipped from Nukualofa, Haapai. and Vavau, takes twelve days Ito reach Auckland instead of five. Tho I extra seven days in tho tropics it, neces-L"jarii-y ; ruination to the fluife-OR transit.. ,