OUR DUNEDIN TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 May 1906, Page 4

OUR DUNEDIN TELEGRAMS.

[ i;v Tta.r.cn.u'tr-—si'ixiAt. to Titr, stau.] I'AllM LADOItKIIM* OIJi’IANIMATION*. DUXLDIX, This Day. Discus'.in" labor matters with n mini her of farm workers at Mi irliii", Mr Arnold, v.lni was Chairman of the I.ahor Hills Committee in (he last Parliament, said lie was satisfied that (he (lovermnent must ultimately restrict their hours of labor and provide a minimum wattes hy h-uisla! ion. It was, lie said, an impossibility fur farm laborers to organise as town laborers can, and even with legislation it would be very <1 i llicti 11 In enforce the law. POLITICAL ADDKLMM. In the event of the Premier returning In the colony via Illnff lie will ho invited to address a public ineetinv; at Invercargill. CIU'SADK AO A IN'ST CHAAL r l lie evils of cram min" under the education system were ventilated at Iho Parliamentary Unions’ Abidin". when i Air C. M. Cohen asked the Minister lof Kdueation whether his attention | had hi'en drawn to (ho recent address- | es hy Dr Trilby Kin". in which seri- | ons allegations were made as to the j effect of (he present system of compei (itive examinations, and, if so, what ! steps he proposed to take with a view to mil matin", if md entirely eradicati in". He- allotted miseliief. Mr Cohen

said lli;il from Dr Tnihv Kind's recent led hiv, it was, nulllcr -d dial our system of examinedions was fraught

witli danger in our primary ami secondary schools ami fair Universiiv. Tt had been stated outside that Hr King had long known the facts lie bad lately made public, but bad kept them ‘‘up bis sleeve,” .as it wore. On behalf of Or Kino, bo would like (o ray lli.it the doctor know of idle cases mentioned as far back as 1897, but Or 10)12 occupied a high public position, and so Ion" as (hero was one ray of hope, lie felt it to bo Ids duty io bold Ids tongue*, as bo considered that bo bad no right whatever to give the public (he knowledge bo had until bo was certain (hat those cases wore absolutely hopeless. That was the position. Mow the two cases of insanity mentioned by him were not isolated ones. Their existence showed the necessity for an inquiry as to the causes of the mental breakdown.

lUr A. T). Ait ken, in reply, said he did not think there was any great need for hysterical agitation. Tie admitted that our educational system was not perfect and that the syllabus was overloaded. The syllabus, however, was not being administered in tin* spirit in which it had been framed nor as inspectors thought it should bo interpreted. There was not a great deal of brain fag in primary schools though lio did not doubt that in socondary schools and the University tnere was too much "swotting” indulged in. ”

win t tv DT.'NEDIM, This Day. \ylnlc holding that there is not (ho slightest risk of the Exhibition traffic bemg successfully coped with bv the local companies engaged in the ilitorcolonial trade, the Times protests against Seddon’s proposals to charter vessels from an English firm, which would he manned partly by Lascars or wholly hv Germans drawing lower wages than fixed by the Arbitration Lourts.

Should traffic warrant it, thg Union Company are prepared to run three steamers m the daily ferry service. I have authority for saying that there will ho no increase in the faros.

Liout-Col. Myers, who has been actively connected with the volunteering movement for twenty- throe years, and has now joined the unattached list, was presented by No. 1 Battalion with a framed photograph of officers and a set of cutlery.

. d conditional license has been issued to the Dunedin winter meeting at Wingatui. The sale of liquor is restricted from noon to 3 p.m.