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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14281, 1 August 1908, Page 15

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\7o have to acknowledge the Empire. Day souvenir cf the Perth Daily, News. . There »re views of various departments in the office, photographic groups of tho stuff, and of the , surroundings in which tire oflico is situated. Tho impression fo be derived from an inspection of tho souvenir is that the lot of the journalist in West Australia is cast in pleasant places. Under the striking title'of "£lO for a ' Soul," the Salvation Army has issued a booklet, written by an outsider, illustrative of the innumerable phases of tho Army's rescue work in Australasia. It enumerates the spheres..of the Army's activity in this branch oi its work,., and gives an elaborate recital of instances in which lost lives have been reclaimed. The writer, after setting out the facts on which the appeal is based, justifies tho title as follows:—"The foregoing , facts are my only apology for asking your financial aid in tho struggle with t-his mass • of misery and want; £10 will savo some daughter's virtue, some son's honour, soura mother's reason, some father's, life. £20 will clothe, feed, and educate one friendless' boy friendless girl for one year. The, a fashonaUo dinner for eight people "will feed, clothe, and shelter a poor family for one year. The price of a basket of champagne will furnish fuel and light to a poor family for an entire winter.. The cost of a box of cigars or a •corsage bouquet will leed a poor family for a month. Tho money paid for a pair of seven-button gloves will shelter, fecit, clothe, and care ioi>. an orphan baby fcr tines rnonthfl.. To carry on the work of the Rescue Relief Agency no less o sum than £11»0 per.week is required, the bulk of which is provided by the labour of the inmates; the balance, lees than £200 a week, they ask the public to provide.'' Tho organisation maintains' eight . prison ■ gate homes, eig-ht men's shelters, 11 food depots, four boys' industrial homes, two old men's liomes, three inebriates' homes, ]0 maternity homes, 16 rescue- homos, two women's ructropolas, oighi girls' homes, a nurses' home and hospital, and a training homo for officers. The working account for last year shows the expenditure to havo been £33,813 IBs, while to make the accounts balance £3820 lGs 3d ksd to bo transferred from capital account. The accounts, duly audited by a certified firm of public accountants, arc fully set forth in the booklet, which is a convincing proof no less of the magnitude than of the sincerity of the Army's social operations. There has emanated from the office of tho Government printer Bulletin No. 2 of the Dominion Museum, being a further instalment of what will bo a sumptuous work on tho sociology oi the aboriginal inhabitants oi New Zealand. Bulletin .No. 2 deals with fishing and sea foods of the ancient Maori, and is by that indefatigable worker, Mi A. Hamilton, director of tho museum. It abounds in splendid photographs, and the text is as well printed as it is luminous. The compiler explains that when he was engaged on the preparation of the material for "Maori Art" he found that there were several important subjects that could not be included in the scope of that publication, owing to the large number of plates required to properly illustrate them. Amongst others, the subjects of fishing and- oi stone iniple'ments had to be exoiude3. Tho present volume remedies the deficiency as tar as fishing is concerned, but the subject of stone implements still stands over. It must be said that Now Zealand is fortunate in the number and talent of its observers. It would h: difficult to name any new country which hss yielded a more bountiful harvest to the ethnologist.