BEAUTY AND ORDER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 140, 15 May 1941, Page 6

BEAUTY AND ORDER.

lx commending to school teachers at their course in Palmerston North this week the inculcation in children of a desire for tidiness, order, and beauty in their immediate surroundings and the country as a whole, the Minister of Education touched on a subject which deserves more attention than it receives. Even in stress of war such matters can be given study and encouragement, and if the rising generation can be brought to appreciate t’he necessity for them perhaps they will remedy in time some of the defects that their elders permit to go unchecked. The cultivation of a deep aesthetic sense has much to commend it; and a desire for tidiness and beauty in outward things fosters a tidy, well-ordered mind. One of the factors mentioned by the Minister was the point that if the child were taught to keep the towns and countryside beautiful a more beautiful country as a whole would result. In saying that “now we had hideous signs trying to shout each other down, and violent paints each trying to push the other out of place,” he was no doubt referring to gaudy hoardings to be seen scattered throughout the Dominion’s highways and particularly on the main approaches to its chief centres. In this respect the Government itself is one of the principal offenders, through its departments, and furthermore it has so far turned a (leaf ear to representations that have frequently been made to it to remedy this. Perhaps if Mr Mason were to bring his colleagues to support the laudable aims he sponsors Ihe resultant example would go a long way toward removing sears on the Dominion’s natural beauty.

Victory Queen Carnival. The Wellington victory queen carnival. which closed on Wednesday night, more than attained its objective, the sum of £104,650 being raised. Support For War Effort.

The executive of the New Zealand Educational Institute, which is at present meeting in Wellington, lias decided to invest £IOOO of accumulated funds in national savings certificates. Cowiers’ Response.

One thousand and, eighty iwunds have been handed r.vcr by the Wellington Bowling Centre tor patriotic lunds, it was reported at the monthly meeting of the centre’s committee.. This amount includes £22 prize money donated by bowlers at the Easter tournament, and also £64 taken at a recent gala day on the Wellington green. Supply of Voting Papers.

No risk is being run in Christchurch ot the supply of voting papers running out on. Saturday. Altogether 85,000 have been prepared. A good lesson was provided by the error of judgment of a former official, many years ago, when the supply of papers was not equal to the demand, and a further 7000 had to bo rushed through by the printer on the morning of the polling. The Abattoirs.

In answer to a question from the Master Butchers’ association as to whether he would agree to the appointment by that body of a representative to sit. on the abattoir committee in an advisory capacity, Mr C. R. Murphy, the Labour candidate for the Mayoralty, said at the Opera House last evening Unit not only would he agree to such representation but would welcome it. The question is one which has been put to other Mayoral candidates by the Master Butchers’ Association. i Stipend of Ministers.

In continuation of their campaign throughout the Dominion to organise the interest of the Presbyterian Church in achieving a standard minimum stq>end for ministers of £330 this year, and a further improvement in the incomes of home missionaries, representatives of the campaign committee were received by the Presbytery of Wellington on Tuesday night. A layman’s executive was set up to further the objectives of the committee and included on it are .Messrs W. B. lonnent and J. C. Aoung, of Palmerston North. Patiiatua Flood Damage.

In a report lo a meeting of the Pahiatua County Council, the overseer slated that the rainstorm which commenced on Saturday, May 3, and continued for 36 hours, caused damage amounting to £5260 in the county s area. The nature of the damage was chiefly slips and washouts and in one instance a wooden bridge with an overall span of 80 leet had been totally destroyed. Several smaller bridges received minor damage. The districts which suffered most severely from the pouit of view oi road damage ucie Jl inemoa, Pori, M.akuri, Coonoor, Makairo, and Kohinui.

Crippled Children. At a meeting oi the executive council of the New Zealand Crippled Children Society in Wellington the chairman stated that £IOOO had been allocated tor the setting up of travelling clinics throughout the country. The DirectorGeneral of Health had advised the council that he had communicated with the Wellington Hospital with regard to the appointment of Dr. "Walter Robertson, and that the council would receive further advice during the next few days as to the commencement of the travelling clinics which would in the first instance be conducted m the Wellington, Hawke’s Bay, Manawatu, and Taranaki districts. Floo-d Enforces Absence.

In one ease in the Hokowhitu area, at least, the flood has enforced a family’s absence from home which will extend into several weeks. Mr and .Mrs R. K. Harrison’s home carried live feet of water during the flood and, as it is built ot brick, it cannot safely be occupied until the moisture has had ample time in which to dry out. Consequently, Mr and Mrs Harrison do not expect to be able to return for several weeks yet. In connection with the floods, Air C. Casey, ot Hokowhitu, forwards a letter to the “Manawatu Standard” on behalf of residents who suffered in the flood, expressing thanks and gratitude to all who rendered them valuable assistance. Cr. J. T. J. Heatlcy, “under whose guidance Hie ladies and Boy Scouts did such marvellous work,” is I specially mentioned.