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Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1918, Page 2

A Wellington correspondent says the lion D. If. Guthrie is to moot the Dominion Butter Committee on Tuesday to discuss the distribution of profits from the sale of New Zealand butter in London, which has been requisitioned by tho Imperial Authorities. It is admitted that there must bo proht from the sale of this butter, but the problem of how to distribute the. profits j if they ere to bo distributed in tills country at; nil, is not quite an easy one. Tho butter men say, quite fairly that they think it would be unjust to confine the distributions to the shipper of the butter, leaving out of account tlio’people supplying -the local market at the fixed price of Is sd. per lb whole-sale. They also argue that it should be possible so to enlarge the scheme as to equalise in some way the returns from butter with those of cheese and other milk products, sueli/ as glaxo and condensed milk. This is getting perilously near the equalisation scheme which was evolved by the Board of Trade and adopted by the Government a year ago. The butter men would not use such terms as “equalisation scheme,” seeing that- they put up such a fight against- the last one, and it is just as. certain that, the Government will not deal with the business by such a method as a levy on butter-fat. It is understood that- if there is to be any equalisation, it will be done by a collection of some kind on the exported produce.

KriceA’riONAn questions are receiving considerable attention throughout NeU Zealand at the present time as a result of the activities of the Teachers' Institute and at a recent meeting of the Canterbury Industrial Asociation one of the members in the course of a discussion said that in 100 many cases the remuneration offered to teachers was not such as to offer much inducement to the cleverest, men and women to tutor this important profession. In his opinion so far as technical education was concerned, lie though that tn> periodical holding of industrial exhibit ions in the various centres, to which pupils of the Technical Colleges should be visitors, would give a great impetus to their acquisition of technical knowledge. The expenses of the students to these exhibitions should be paid by the State, and arrangements should be made for lectures on technical subjects by experts in the various branches of industry. There wore many possibilities in the moving picture frojm an educational point of view, and a properly-equipped technical school should be able to screen views of tho world’s industries of nil kinds. Complete series of pictures of this kind would have a high practical value, especially if competent persons could lecture on the various processes ' carried out.. Sonic provision should also h< made, he thought, to train the youth of the country in tlieir civic responsibilities. Those who were young now would have to shoulder tho civic ana administrative duties of the Dominion in the near future, hub there was no training of these important duties. It, would also be a sound business proposition if a really good technical publication was issued, so that all information regarding new industries or existing occupations could he published in a form in which it would he available J those who were most likely to benefit from it. There, were men in the Dominion and there, were also frequov* visitors to this country, who could give the most valuable information to technical students in the different industries with which they were connects-:). The speaker concluded with stressing the importance of providing adequately for a properly equipped teaching staff for technical colleges.