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Evening Star, Issue 18281, 22 May 1923, Page 4

Tho promises on which tho illuminated I address to .Mr T. K. Sidey, M.P., is on view are those of Dawson and. Co., Cargill road, not Pawsons, Limited, aa stated Inst evening. Tho latter is the Princes street firm. "We have 700 children crowded together at the West End School," said a speaker at the official opening of the. Moturoa School, reports tho ' Taranaki Herald.' " What would happen if a farmer put 700 cows in the samo space ? He would be fined. But it doesn't matter about tho children. It's a reproach to us." "It is absurd for a community to say that it cannot afford to spend more on education," said Professor Hunter at tho education rally at the Wellington Town Hall, " for tho fact is that it cannot afford to do otherwise. In 1922 12.3 per cent, of the total expenditure of New Zealand went out upon education; in 1914 12.5 per cent., so New Zealand has gone back a little—a great deal, in fact, when ono considers tho tremendous leeway of the war years. Some people are proud of' tho fact that three and a-half millions wore spent on education. I blush j for them. Some look upon that expenditure as waste. I tremblo for them. Twice that amount was spent upon | tobacco and alcohol, three times that j amount went through tho totalisator, no one knows how much was spent on amuse- ! ments. I am not talking of morality. I am looking at this question from the point of view of economics. . . . Can anyono say that £5,000,000 spent on education could bo spent in any better, any wiser manner, not only from the point of view of the balance of profits over expenditure, but from the point of view , of human happiness. Whero there is no vision the people perish." j Tho firm of Laidlaw and Gray has sold its Georgo street business to Mr Vernon Smith, of Invercargil.l, and tho purchaser, who is a son of an old Dunedin citizen, Mr Crosby Smith, takes possession at tho end of next month. The George street business was started before the war. Mr Robert Laidlaw is now out of the firm, settled in Auckland. The continuing partner, Mr John Gray, Ims sold the branch with tho idea of concentrating on the Rattray street warehouse. In tho Police Court this morning, before Mr H. W. Bundle, Arthur Ernest M'Gitin pleaded gnilty to charges of drunken ifess and a breach of his prohibition order. Senior-sergeant Mathieson suggested that it was a case in which defendant should be sent to Pakatoa, and evidence was given concerning his insobriety. Defendant contended that he was not'an habitual inebriate, and declared that he went home last night, after helping a friend to dispose of a bottle of wine, and went to bed, and that his wifo pulled him out of bed and his brother-in-law pushed him out of tho honso so that lie could be arrested. ITo a*ked for a chance to bring evidence in support of his contention. The magistrate adjourned the matter till Friday, but refused bail. The George street firm of Mollisons is preparing to retire —making arrangements, by disposing of the stock, to close up about tho first of July. Tho taking down of tho familiar sign will be an event of historical importance. It is an old-estab-lished business, started by Messrs Alex. Mollison, James Mollison, and James Fawns Mollison as an offshoot of the firm of Mollison, Duthie, and Co. The original firm was formed in 1879 by Messrs A. and J. Mollison in conjunction with Mr John Duthie, and dissolved in 1886, when tho present building was erected, room for it on tho Frederick .street corner being nuulo by pulling down tho White Horso Hotel, an ancient landmark. Five sales have already resulted from the sketch and artcraft exhibition in the Dunedin Art Gallery—namely, one of Mr T. H. Jenkins's figure studies in fancy costume (the French exquisite), the' Rangitoto' sketch by M.r W. Wright, and three of the artcraft exhibits, these being a jazz bowl and an imitation Doulton bowl by Miss Mary L. Passmore, and an inlaid workbox by the Rev. C. Dallaston. A Christchurch Press Association message states that Frank Smith, a newsvendor, i aged seventy years, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called on for obtaining a pension certificate by means of a false statement. The police gave evidence that Smith failed to declare £l5O in the savings bank, and had declared his earnings as 30s a week. He obtained a pension for ten months, when it was stopped, and he had since refunded £lB wrongly obtained and had paid £lB penalty to the department. The 1 magistrate said that tho penalties provided j by the Act were heavy, but ho was loth to send tho man to gaol.

At tho Port Chalmers Court this morning Samuel Stewart Brooks, Bichard Welsh,

George William Montana, and Goorgo Edward Clements, young men from the

steamer Rotorua, were charged with breaking into the residence of Robert Cahill at Deborah Bay on the 20th inst., and steal-

ing ’therefrom knives, spoons, and other articles valued at £2 18s 6d. Sergeant Macrae aslced for a remand to Dunedin,

and this was granted by Mr J. Tail, J.P. During tho visit of tho Rev, R. H. Knowles Kemp ton to Goto on Sunday last tho contributions of the Baptist Church there towards the Rev. R. S. Gray

memorial fund were collected, and amounted to the handsome sum of £SO.

The Gore church is the first of the Otago and Southland Baptist churches to subscribe to this fund, which has been established by tho Baptist Union in memory of its late secretary; and tho example will be a stimulus to the larger churches.

Thomas M'Kay, farmer, of Luggate, was to-day adjudicated a bankrupt by the registrar of th© Supremo Court (Mr W. W. Samson). Mr W. L. Moore appeared for the petitioning creditor (D.1.C., Ltd.). In th© case of Joseph Stephens, farmer, of Dunodin, a summons for adjudication as a bankrupt was adjourned till June 1. Mr W. G. Hay appeared for Stephens, and Mr T. K. Sidey for the petitioning creditor (J. 0. M'Kenzie, storekeeper, of Riversda!c). A summons to adjudicate Alexander Frame, taxi proprietor, of Oamarp, a bankrupt .was also adjourned till tho same date. In this case Mr J. Calder appeared for the petitioning creditor (George Henry Bishop, laborer, of Hilderthorpo). “Never speak ill of anyone, refuse to listen ..-when anyone speaks ill of another, but gently say: ‘ Perhaps this is not time, and even if it is it is kinder not to speak of it.’ ” Thus ran the text of a neat wall card which the Auckland Education Board agreed to permit the Hamilton Theosophical Society to supply to schools in the Waikato district. “An excellent maxim,” commented' one member, “ and I suggest tho sample copy be hung up in a prominent position in this board room!” Tho little tilt was greeted l with laughter.

The City Fire Brigade was called out at 5.55 p.m. yesterday to deal with a chimney fire in a house in Grosvenor street, Kensington. A further call was received at 6.37 to a blaze in eomq rubbish in tho Education Board’s .yard in Ward street. Both outbreaks were suppressed before any damage was done. In an article dealing with the apprenticeship problem, the ‘lndustrial Bulletin,’ tho official organ of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation, says that very little has so- far been done to eradicate the popular, idea that tho crafts belong to the humbler walks of life; that when a man puts on dungarees ho immediately becomes a member of some social substratum, an object of condescension on tho part of the “ cuds and collars ” brigade. “It is high time that the skilled crafts were given their rightful place in the estimation of tho community,” says tho ‘ Bulletin.’ “It is part of the function of technical education, ito do this—to co-opcrate with industry hi ( raising tho intellectual efficiency of the ’skilled craftsman, and no lesson the number of young people who drift aimlessly into blind-alley occupations, to become eventually disappointments in life, if not a danger to society.”. An Aucklander who wanted to try his luck in “Tatt’s” and posted his letter to one of the numerous Hobart addresses that are known among tho followers of • this pastime was astonished to find l his postal notes returned to him by tho Auckland Post Office. “And it might have been confiscated,” ho remarked, with some relief, as he opened tho missive. As a matter of fact (says tho ‘Star’) tho Post Office docs not confiscate those offerings at the shrine of luck; it merely returns them to the sender. As most people know, hundreds of thousands of pounds leave Now Zealand every year for the great Hobart gamble, in spite of the postal regulations prohibiting this sort of correspondence passing through the post. In the postal regulations "there is a long list of lottery agents who have a black mark against them, and thoro 'are quite a lot of Hobart names there. The ways of the gambler are ingenious, however, and as soon as one address gets too well known at tho Post Office and is placed on the list, others are found, and so the interrupted stream of silver flows once more to TaUemll’s. The I regulation is not a new one, but people j like tho man mentioned, who have got I through the barrier many times, receive | such a surprise when they arc baulked that | they think a fresh crusade must have been set afoot. Tho members of the English colony at Pan have signed recently an address, in which they declare : “ Wo. wish to publish our warm sympathy for the French nation, our desiro to support her in upholding the treaties, so as to allow her to recover a small part of tho losses which were shamefully and inhumanely caused by that outcast from civilised nations which is Ger- ! many. Wo shall struggle by tho side of | France and help her to her rights. Wo | cannot yet forget and forgive tho Roches ! or Huns ns long as they have not been | forced to keep their word, as long as their | lies are all-powerful, as long as tho crimes j so joyfully committed by them, and which j are unprecedented since tho world began, 1 have not been fully expiated.” lu tho course of an address on leprosy last night tho Rev. W. J. Eddy mentioned the leper station on Quail Island, in Lyttelton Harbor. Mr Eddy said he had visited tho island, and found the lepers fairly happy. Ho hoped, however, that tho lepers there would bo allowed tho full use of the island before long, or else allowed to walk to the top of the hill to watch tho shipping. It was hoped also that a wireless .“listening-in” set would bo provided for their use. This project had already been sot in motion, and it was anticipated that tho public would subscribe to the fund, and thus help to provide some amusement for these unfortunate people. Later on in his lecture Mr Eddy had projected on tho screen a picture of the mountain in India on which Buddha was born, at tho foot of which nestles a mission station. At the top of this mountain (which is regarded as sacred) perches a Buddha temple. It seemed strange (ho said) that under the shadow of this holy mountain was a leper station, where the lepers, ostracised by their own kinsmen, arc cared for by the Christians. The Full Court gave judgment at Wellington yesterday afternoon in tho Castle v. Sweeney case, in which appellant was conyicted by a magistrate of a breach of section 146 (a) qf tho Licensing .Act, in that he caused to bo published in a newspaper in the No-license area of Masterton an advertisement as to spirituous liquors supplied by his firm. The Chief Justice, in the course of his judgment, said that tho object of tho licensing statutes was to impose restrictions on tho sale of liquor, and that it was not for tho court to whittle away express legislation, though it might be inconvenient to people desiring liquor or having it for sale. The argument that an advertisement by a trader that ho had goods to sell was not solicitation to a possible customer -ould not be held valid. In his opinion the appeal against a conviction should ho dismissed. Mr Justice Hosking and Mr j Justice Herdman agreed that the appeal i should bo dismissed, with £lO 10s costa, Mr Justice Salmond and Mr Justice Reed dissented, being of opinion that tho appeal should bo allowed. The decision was in accordance with tho opinion of tho majority of tho court. Watson's No. 10 fa a little clearer than meat whiskies, but it is worth tho money. —[Advt.] Tho “sing germ” k tho only germ “NoRubbing " Laundry Help allows in the washhouse. 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