LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 June 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

‘•Nobody realises the magnitude of the 1\ and T. Department,” stated Mr G. McNamara at the recent reunion of p. and T. employees in Hastings' (says iL> ‘‘Tribune.”) " “The actual turnover last year was £176.000,000. This was not the highest. Two years ago it was about £205,000,000. Roughly, the turnover was £l5O per capita.” The tuberculosis commission lias concluded its inquiry (states am Auckland message;. Trie chairman. Dr. Fitchett, stated that it had been decided to prepare a report -in Auckland, and lip anticipated it would be completed and sent to the Minister of Health by next Monday.

The No rman by Dairy Co. has paid out Is «)d per lb butter-fnib for the present season’s supply to the end of May, the total gross amount being approximately The total gross distribution or the w:>»jle of the previous season was £BOOO less than the amount already paid out for this season’s supply to tne end of May.

“Four-fifths of the world’s business is done on credit,” said Dr. W. O. Poole, president of the World’s Sunday School Association, in an address to members of the Hamilton Rotary Club. Nothing could be more disastrous as influences that tended to weaken the faith upon which the credit system was founded. Everything should ibe done to reinstate in men an enthusiasm for creative effort. The art of thinking should be cultivated, so that an intellectual graphs of life’s problems could be obtained and a, differentiation made between what was transient and what was permanent.

The practice of giving logs a “hypodermic injection’.’ to preserve them, invented in Germany not long ago, has spread to Britain, and a new tool has been invented to do the work. L’he new .scientific method is .being used to inject into telegraph poles a spreading paste that is said to keep fungi at bay. Many years are said to be added to the pole’s life. This treatment of wood is a step that may lead eventually to complete arrest of decay. If that ideal is accomplished, buildings of wood caff be erected that will be as imperishable as .structures of stone, brick, or steel, while the cost will, be much less. The effect w.i1.1 be. that of transmuting wood into rock. A heated discussion occurred yesterday at tins Wellington Education Board’s meeting, on the Education Deartment’© proposal to seek regulations by Order-in-Council, virtually taking iom the board the power to appoint, applicants to vacancies on the Training Co.lege staff, or practising'schools, and vesting- it in the Minister of Education. The board regard© the proposals as a.n endeavour to frustrate the board’s efforts to appoint Mr S. K. Tomas acting principal of the Training Ciolle>gie, to the position of principal of 'the college. The? department desires to makei the regulations retrospective to the oa’ling of applications for the position of principal of the Wellington Training College. A resolution pretesting _ against the procedure was carried with only one dissentient.

Tire fascinating taeory that somewhere deep down below One Tree Hill a river flows has (says the Auckland “Star”) led to an extended iseareh there by the One Tree Hill ißbad Board for a water supply. A diviner was engaged, and after making some mystic signs in one locality indicated that below there was much pure water, although nQ' indication could be given of the probable depth. A bore that was sunk passed through a cave and much lava, yet ah a. depth of 100 ft the hole was dry. The Road Board is still optimistic, and tenders are to be called for another bore.

The value of He sale of samples of New Zealand produce at exhibitions at Home is referred to by the High Commissioner in a letter received by the Prime Minister. Sir James Parr states that in most cases the exhibitions introduce New Zealand foodstuffs to people who have not been in the habit of trying them. At exhibitions held in various important centres in England in January, February, March and April, 45,562 butter samples at 2d each had been sold, realising £3BO, while honey samples sold had realised over £sl. It was expected that the sales of honey at future shows would be much greater, as He London representatives of He New Zealand Honey Control Board had now produced. a 3d sample pot especially for exhibition sales, where hitherto there had been nothing smaller than a half-pound package.