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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 196, 20 July 1937, Page 8

Bullet holes were found in a number of tip trucks used at the duplication of the railway line at Drury, Auckland, just beyond the south overhead bridge this morning. Several empty .303 cartridge cases were found on the railway line by workmen. The trucks were not greatly damaged and were used again. —Press Association.

“I hope that the number of public servants, which seems to be increasing, is not likely to deprive our juries of tiie proper persons,” said Mr Justice Heed at the o|>ening of the criminal sessions of the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday, when several persons applied for exemption from jury service on the ground that they were public servants.

“Educationists are used to criticism. Wc are content to leave abstruse subjects to experts, but everybody knows ail about education and everybody is competent to criticise. Wo are teaching the right child the wrong things, the wrong child the right things, or the wrong child the wrong things—never the time, the place and the loved one all together,” declared Mr E. Salter Davies, Director of Education, Kent, England, in an address in Wellington, yesterday. It was not that ideals were any different. Plato (400 8.C.) had said, “The aim of education is to produce a likeness to God so far as it is possible to man.” It was not the theories that were wrong but the practice—there was such a gap between them.