PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 198, 22 July 1937, Page 8

PERSONAL.

The Governor-General, Viscount Galway, will travel to Dunedin by air from the north on August 14. On August 16 lie will lay the foundation stone of the new Plunket hospital at Anderson’s Bay, and in the evening he will attend the Plunket Society ball. The following morning he will leave for the north by air.

Hon. P. C. Webb, acting-Minister of Labour, acting-Minister of Public Works and Minister of Mines, commenced his East Coast tour yesterday when he arrived at Gisborne.

Mr D. S. McLeod, of Havelock North, has been nominated as a candidate in the election for a Hawke’s Bay representative on the New T Zealand Fruit Control Board. The present representative, Mr A. M. Robertson, has intimated his intention of retiring, and Messrs A. L. Bauingart and McLeod are contesting the position.

nine votes to five, the Wellington Education Board yesterday amended its by-laws to permit school committees, in consultation with -the teachers concerned. to allow either half an hour a week for religious instruction in schools under the Nelson system or five minutes each morning for devotional exercises.

That 160,000 motor-vehicles out of the 170,000 in New Zealand requiring to have warrants of fitness had been certified was reported at the meeting of the Road Safety Council in Wellington yesterday by Mr J. S. Hawke, Christchurch. “I think the percentage already certified is wonderfully good,l’ said the Commissioner of Transport, Mr G. Laurenson.

“Even examinations are not wholly evil,” said Dr. William Boyd at a New Education Fellowship conference seminar in Wellington yesterday. “They give very valuable results, but at the same time are-attended by very bad by-products in the way of reactions on the mental attitude of the person examined.”'.He added that it was very difficult to suggest an alternative to the examination system, but that he had a deep objection to the method of comparing human beings by numbers. ( * “I never get mixed up in politics.” remarked Dr. Harold Rugg, of Columbia University, New York, in the course of an address at Dunedin. “To my mind, no teacher should identify himself actively with politics,” lie continued. “As long as he stays in the profession and is engaged in a school, lie has no right to be a protagonist of one section of the population.” The speaker’s view was received with appause by an audience which was composed almost entirely of people engaged in the teaching profession, says the Otago Daily Times.