Page 4 Advertisements Column 1

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 142, 18 June 1913, Page 4

An Auckland Press Association telegram states that- a meeting at Unehunga,-passed a resolution calling Hh& attention of the Borough Council to the injury done to Onehunga by the premature report of an outbreak <# smallpox in the town. The meeting also suggested that the Borough Council call a public meeting to express a sense of the unnecessary injury done to Onehunga through, the reports of smallpox circulated by the ; Public Health Department and the j press, such reports having jyoved to be false alarms. The resolutions were ordered to' be forwarded to theCoun- j cfl. I When concluding an address at the ; pris'/f-friVing ceremony at the Diocesan ! High School for Girls in Auckland the other afternoon. Mr A. M. Myers, M.P., commented upon the eril effects resulting from the reading of stupid books of fiction. Too much notion, j he said, enervated1 the mind, and filled it with, foolish views of life. Ha \ arged the girls to abstain from road- j ing frivolous books, whick absorbed j tune that sihould be devoted to per- < using good literature, and; masterpieces which had stood the test of time. The girls should take as their motto the advice of the philosopher who said it was better to read an old book three times than to read three ii'2-iv books once.