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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 49, 26 February 1918, Page 8

Robert Millar, • of. •5, College-street, met with, a- „,painful;, accident to-day, whilst employed at the Windsor Manufacturing' Company's • works. His left hand was caught in some belting, and was severed above the -wrist. He was removed to the Hospital, and this afternoon was reported to be doing as well as could be expected. ■

As an instance of the overcrowded state , of schools Mr. C. T. Aschman stated.to the Workers' Educational Association: in Christehurch on Saturday night that in one case the sixth standard consisted of eighty-six children, , with only one teacher, assisted by a pupil teacher. In the same school the fifth standard also numbered eighty-six, with one teacher and a first-year pupil teacher, while the fourth standard numbered .one Hundred, with one teacher and a pu-pil teaoher. "Yon cannot teach children in bulk like that," Mr. Aschman said, "and if the people knew of the overcrowding of our schools, and tho ghastly unhygienic stafco of some of them, they would rise in wrath and rend the Government, National or anything else, that would not vote the money to remedy that state of affairs."

What some colliers at Home are doing is described as follows in a letter to a Timaru citizen published in the Timaru Herald:—"The Crown Farm Colliery, Mansfield, England, held a meeting a few months sines to consider what help they could give in the great war; it resulted in the welcome gift of £500 to the Chnrch Army for a hut at the front to be called the 'Crown Farm Pit Hut.' With the exception of £50 which -was contributed by the managing director, Mr. ,7. P. Houston, J.P., the whole of this sum was given by the men. This is all tho more striking as, out of 2800 men and boys employed before the war, more than 1000 have joined the fighting forces; and the employees still remaining are voluntarily giving 2£ per cent, of their earnings week by week to a fund for the dependents of those who have gone from the pit."

At the reunion of soldiers' mothers io be held in the Town Hall to-morrow afternoon under the auspices of the Women's National Reserve, Sir Joseph Wurd is to giv» m address,