ROTORUA ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13483, 6 July 1907, Page 6

ROTORUA ITEMS.

[FROM' OUR OWN' CORRESPONDENT.!

. • " . Rotobua, Friday. ,' The: question, of higher education for the young generation of Rotorua is being tak;u v up enthusiastically here. Mr.. Isaac, In-., spector-Goncval of Technical Schools, re- ; . cently delivered an address ill favour of ; '::\: the project. He stated that he . was con- r-. < vinced mat there was a real need in Roto- 4 rua.for something in the way of continua- ■ tion classes. The question was, how should they be. started? He considered,: that pivt s,'clause 172, section 1, sub-section i of .the, ; Education Act, 1904, helped us hero. By .'' this sub-section it is possible for tho,Town . . Council to start such continuation classes, , and to have them recognised by the Minis- _'• tor for Education. " ; A sister of Major Von Terapskji reeonLly ',' paid a visit to the battlefield of To "Ngiilu • " o te Manu, where the distinguished Prussian lost his' life in action against Titifco- • warm's men. While on her visit she was/-; the recipient, of a,'greenstone axe, which,', was" dug our. of the spot near where her ; 7 brother lost his life. " At Whakarcwarcwit,' bridges have been built; over the Puarenga-stream,, so as-io ,"■ . enable visitors to view the thermal wonders on either side of the stream with much ' more comfort than has teen the custom in the past. One of. the bridges replace* th« '' one that was washed away last January, and the other spans the stream some distance to the west, and affords access to the Maori pa which the Tourist Department..; i have erected. Geyser action at Whakarewarewa still continues to be vet? consistent, and Wai- : kite has been erupting continuously at short intervals for just on three weeks. Waimanjru's basin has been fairly warm of late, ;.'•'' but there is no sign of eruption so far. ,■