NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21582, 8 December 1944, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Old Ships’ End Two old ships, the Glenelg, of 160 tons, formerly a unit of the Northern Steamship Company’s fleet, and the Hikurangi, which was engaged in the' Portland cement trade, were towed to Whangaparoa on Monday. They will be beached to form a breakwater ior a launch harbour. The Glenelg was built in 1878 and the Hikurangi in 1889. Their last resting place will be near the Kakapo and Wainui, which were also beached there. Pay-as-you-earn Taxation It would not be possible to introduce the pay-as-you-earn system of income tax collection until the decentralisation of the Income Tax Department was completed, said the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, in the House of Representatives yesterday, when replying to the second reading debate on the Land and Income Tax Amendment Bill. The Minister said the department was being decentralised and when that was completed the Government would have a complete picture of the position. It would then be able to determine what would be done with the proposal.—P.A. Wool Storage From tire vice-president of the New Zealand Woolbrokers’ Association, Mr. C. E. Holmes, the chairman of the Gisborne Woolbrokers’ Association, Mr. H. C. Hanes, has received the following message regarding wool storage in the South Island: “I have just received official advice from the Invercargill association to the effect that the Southland Racing Club, as a gesture to the British taxpayer, has made available the most suitable space in the club’s buildings for (storage of wool, free of charge. This certainly is a splendid gesture, ana will be a tangible contribution cowards our efforts in reducing the aggregate cost of storage on United Kingdom wool in Netv Zealand.” Accommodation for Scholars A plea on behalf of country boys and girls who are at present debarred from securing the advantages of secondary education owing to tne inadequacy of hostel accommodation at the school, and the scarcity of suitable private lodgings in the town, was made by the principal of the Gisborne High Scnooi, Mr. J. Leggat, in a speech at last night’s breaking-up ceremony. It is hoped, he said, that before long there would be additions made to the hostels, but in the meantime there was a very serious shortage of accommodation for country pupils. He asked that any private residents who would make accommodation available should hand in their names, so that they could be put in touch with country parents. He was confident that they would not regret having the children in their houses, he added. Work Out of School Hours The commonly-held impression that school staffs have their time at their own disposal except for a few hours a day from Monday to Friday was referred to by Mr. J. Leggat at the Gisborne High School’s break-up gathering last evening. He assured the large number of parents present that the school had many activities which were carried on outside normal school hours, and that all of these were supervised by a teacher or teachers. A good secondary-school teacher could not, as could the average citizen, call his Saturday afternoon his own, for there were sports that demanded his attention on behalf of the school. In numerous other ways, teachers took part in out-of-school activities which meant hours subtracted from their leisure. It was in the informal atmosphere of these activities, in fact, that pupils and teachers came closest to each other, and that association was most valuable, he addde.