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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 93, 22 April 1919, Page 8

Mr. James Milne, who hae for the past 24, years been an inspector under the Wanganui Board of Education, was, entertained laet week by the teachers of the Wanganui education district, on his severing nis connection with the board.

The boys who were injured in the recent accident at Trentham, Cecil H. Valler, of Petone, Eobert Clarke and Ray Drake, of Lower Hutt, are all progressing favourably. They are still in hospital at Trentham.

Berlin modistes are besieging Frail Ebert, the new first lady of the German land; but there is no reason to look for revolutionary styles. Paris is still the capital of fashion.

The funeral of the late Mr. Hercules Davidson took place this morning, the interment being made at Karori. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. William Shirer, an intimate friend of the deceased gentleman. Prior to the funeral a special service was conducted at t?t. James's Presbyterian 'Church, Wellington South. The Railway Department, of which the late Mr. Davidson was formerely chief accountant, was largely represented. The Rev. Mr. Shirer was assisted by the Rev. J. Paterson and the Rev. Dr. Kennedy Elliott.

A few weeks ago there was a series of burglaries at State Schools in the Wanganui district. At the meeting of the Education Board last week, the chairman .(Mr. F. Pirani) commented upon what he considered a careless practice of keeping money in th« drawers at schools, which he'regarded as a temptation to break into the buildings. It was decided to issue a circular to all teachers drawing attention to the matter.

Among the passengers who arrived in Auckland from the Islands by the Talune on Sunday was the wife of one of the German prisoners interned in New Zealand. She is accompanied by her three children, and has come to Auckland to join her husband, who is shortly to be sent to Germany. She, has in her charge the child of another interned prisoner who is also being sent to Germany.

■ Experiments are being made with a view to improving . the acoustics of the new chamber of ihe House of Representatives. A Commission was appointed recently to advise upon this matter. It is known that defects are associated with hard, materials, concrete, and hard plaster, which cause reverberations. These can be minimised by the introduction of soft, sound-absorbing materials ; and the idea of the experiments is to detect the places ( where sounds are reflected and where covering is necessary. These experiments require to be made carefully with delicate sound-recording instruments, and will naturally require time in order that the result may be satisfactory.

There is nothing fresh to record regarding the trouble with the Green Island miners, who we still out on strike (says Monday's Otago Daily Times). Mr. O'Bonrke, a member of the Federation of Labour, has arrived from the north, and a meeting of the miners is to be hold to-morrow (Tuesday) morning. In the meantime, local supplies of coal are getting short, as in t,he absence of supplies from Green Island the small stocks of other coals in hand have had to be requisitioned. There' does not appear any great likelihood of the shortage being relieved in the near future either, as the Green Island mine proprietors resent very much the manner in which they were treated by the miners when they decided to leave their employment, notwithstanding that the miners, with the owners, had subscribed their names to abide by an agreement come to under tha provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration! Act t