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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 1 November 1921, Page 6

_The value of the timber industry to Kew Zealand was demonstrated by Mi' Mcintosh Ellis, director of forestry, in his lecture the other eveninp. Cantain Ellis said that the sawmillins industry .stood second on the. list: of employe'™ for the Dominion, over ;}o,<iOi) people being directly dependent on it, and its pav-roll totalled at least, C1.,fiOO,00() per'annum. For the last year the total value of the product ton was £3 750,000 and for the previous year £2 200,000, The industry, wiili as capital investment of £2,100,000, was second on the list el' industries, and its value to the worker was shown by the fact that the wupos bill ac,-ou::t----fd for a greater proportion or the production value than thai: of any other industry in New Zealand -(u per cent.

Rather a knotty problem w:is brought; before the Southern H.awko s Boy provincial executive of the Hi rulers' I'ninn L>Y tlie secret a t>y (Mr 11. IS. ii. Quigk'V), who s:iid ir had heeii suggested 'to him that- union pliould take steps Lo rl.i Mj::k'llim;,C to protect farmers from purchasing rejected onus at the various sale yards. A member unvested flint (hoy cnul.l not do anything in this matter until there was'a little more honesty among tli--! farmers. The president; pointed out that there was to he a meeting_ol tho Stock 'Auctioneers' Association shortlv, and he suggested that the matter he referred to the auctioneers. It was decided to adopt this course. '•This is a fresh-air schoo!~-tbe air is just, as good inside as outside," remark'd the Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister of Education. wh.m opening a now school at Masterfon on Saturday. IJLe went on to say thai, medical authorities agreed that the majority of eye trouble was duo to the effects of bad lighting. Th". last aunuual report, of tiin Education .Department showed that six per cent of the children iu this country required treatment, for eye trouble, -which might become more serious if neglected. In ihis school and all the new .schools the lighting was arranged so a* to come over the' left, shoulder. This was acknowledged to be the correct angle troni which the light should come.