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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 143, 19 May 1932, Page 6

The severe frosts experienced at Fairlie, have hampered the Post Office officials severely, owing to tho letters having been frozen in the boxes (states an exchange).

Following upon a report that the teacher’s residence at Newbury was ill a bad state, the Wanganui Education Board yesterday instructed its architect to have the building reconditioned immediately.

Advice was reoeived by the Wanganui Education Board yesterday from the Minister of Education that a grant had been authorised for concreting paths at the Palmerston North Central School. An application for new desks at the West End School was supported by the architect, who re-, ported that the cost of fencing the newly acquired area at this school was £9 Is. v . A new method of attending a hunt in New Zealand was used yesterday, when Dr S. J. Thompson, of Levin, commissioned a Manawatu Aero Club ’plane, piloted by Major Cowper, to take him from Levin to the hunt at Cheltenham, with his saddle and bridle stowed in tne cockpit of the machine. Tho trip to Cheltenham occupied half-an-hour, and the machine landed, in a paddock adjacent to tho meet, gliding perfectly to rest in the restricted space. Dr Thompson’s horse was awaiting him and ho had ample time to saddle and join tho field.

The principal of Massey College (Professor G. S. Peren) reported to the Council yesterday that he had invited the agricultural classes of all high schools within reasonable distance of the college to attend demonstrations in accordance with a definito programme. The following schools had accepted and attended to ’ date (others proposed to come later): —Dannevirke, Levin, Pafiiatua, Palmerston North (twice), WoodviUo. These classes represented a total of two hundred students. The field days were undoubtedly most popular with the boys and, for that matter, with the members of the staff who came with them. He trusted that they profited by the instruction and hoped the college would benefit by way of new students in the future.

City Council workmen this morning commenced the erection of a carriers’ stand in Main Street adjacent to the railway station. The stand is being erected on railway land by the council and will take the place of a small telephone box previously used as a shelter.

For health reasons, the Wanganui Education Board yesterday declined to re-introduce slates into the schools, as advocated by the School Committee as an economy measure. In the Uruti district, Taranaki, the frosts on Monday and Tuesday mornings were so severe that the ground was white as though covered with snow.

The Wanganui Education Board yesterday received a letter from the Carnarvon School Committee, protesting against the frequent changes in infant teachers. “We cannot 1)6 held responsible when teachers get married,” said a member. The P. and T. Employees’ Association, whose privileges in Government Departmental circles have been withdrawn, was given official recognition about 20 years ago, and now claims a membership of 7000.

■ In the meantime, no child under six years of age is to be enrolled as a pupil of a school, was a decision of yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board. It was stated that such action was needed as a lead until it was found what details of the new measure might be.

Dazzled by the light of the sun on his windscreen, the driver of a service car from Whakatane struck the handrail of the Puarenga Bridge, close to Rotorua, on Tuesday afternoon. Tho car, which carried six passengers', overturned into the stream. The occupants received a wetting and shock, but no serious injury.

The Wellington Aero Club’s fourseater “Waco” ’plane, tho first machine of its type in New Zealand, arrived in Palmerston North early this morning. The machine (Z.K.A.C.V.) was piloted by Captain G. Bolt and among its passengers was a Wellington doctor who came to this centre to perform an operation. The total enrolments to date for the year at Massey Agricultural College were reported to the governing body yesterday to be 180, as compared with 152 last year. Tho term which commenced on Monday brought an additional 31 new students for the first year of tho dairy manufactures course, making the total in this course 62.

The Dominion executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at its meeting yesterday in Wellington adopted an Otago remit: “That this executive is of opinion that there is room for further economy in the administration of the Education Department, and requests the Dominion executive to back up the Government in its efforts in this connection.”

News has been received in Auckland by friends of Krishnamurti, the worid teacher of spiritual ideals, that his projected visit to New Zealand and Australia has been indefinitely postponed. Ho is still carrying on Ins work as a teacher from California, and it is understood that in tho not distant future he will visit India, tho country of his birth. After a three months’ prospecting trip in the West Coast Sounds district, Mr Charles Yunge, of Halfmoon Bay, tho well-known prospector, has returned with samples which bear out his assertion that there is gold in payable quantities in the locality as well as veins of asbestos and other minerals in smaller quantities (states tiro Invercargill News).

There were 303 operations for appendicitis in the Waikato Hospital during the year ended March 31, 1932, against 260 for the previous year. According to Dr Graham, acting-superintendent, appendicitis is increasing very much and is the outcome of modern civilisation. Ho said it was time people were educated to realise that the trouble became much worse if it was neglected. The Massey College Council yesterday accepted the offer of Messrs A. Clement and Sons, Ltd. (London) to provide an annual scholarship to tho value of £25. The council decided to write, expressing its gratitude to the donors, who suggested that the award bo made in the dairy manufactures section of college activities. Regulations are to be drawn up by the College Council for the approval of the donors.

Nineteen of the largest districts in the Wanganui Education Board’s area have replied to a request from the board for information regarding the manner in which children who do not attend Bible reading aro employed during the Bible reading period. Most of the reports stated that the children attended _ the readings, or were quietly reading in school. At Martou Junction School, however, the children played in a shelter shed. The teacher there is to be asked to keep the children in school in future. The Dominion executive of the. New Zealand Farmers’ Union yesterday decided to hold the annual conference on July 6, 7 and 8, the executive to meet on the first day. It was further decided to recommend the provincial associations to nominate only half the usual number of delegates. The president, Mr W. J. Poison, said it would save a large sum in travelling expenses and would result in reducing the conference expenses by two-thirds. The amount would be reduced to about £IOO.

Doubt was expressed at yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board when it was stated that a report requested bv the Education Department showed that the number of pupils who had left school the previous year in the Wanganui board’s area and who had not yet found employment was 174. Tho secretary said that the Education Department had asked for a return of the numbers, and investigation had shown that there were 62 girls so placed in the Wanganui board’s area and 112 boys, making a total of 174. “Where I think savings could be made is in less elaborate Government buildings, even in Hastings and Napier,” stated a member of the Hastings Chamber of Commerce this week during a discussion on Government expenditure.” It is ridiculous to spend £BO,OOO on the Napier Post Office and another £14,000 on the Hastings Post Office, when buildings to cover the necessary accommodation could have been erected for less. Tho same refers to education. The expenditure on school buildings has been out of all reason and had this cost been cut down more teachers could have been employed teaching smaller classes. Then there is the Government interference in business, which lias been another costly matter.”