MATERNITY HOME APPOINTMENTS. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14700, 7 December 1909, Page 5

MATERNITY HOME APPOINTMENTS.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

f COMPROMISE ARRIVED AT.. '• (Fsom Our Own Cormsfondbkt.) WELLINGTON, December 6. Mr E. A. Tapper, a member of the Otago Charitable Aid Board, and Mr Paul, ' M.L.C., interviewed the Minister of Education this afternoon, and pointed out that there was a probability of a deadlock , and further unpleasantness between theboard and the University Counoil unless some modification were made in the clause relating to tl'.o admission of doctors and " students to the Maternity Home. Mv Fowlds said he would agree to an' amendment making it clear that the Minister could only interfere -when the University Council, and the Charitable ... Aid Hoard were unable to agree, to appointment. t ....

"Kelway's . Manual of Horticulture."— j Messrs Kelway and Son, of Lanjgiort, Somerset, the well-known horticulturists, in the ' fifty-seventh edition of their ' Manual of Horticulture" for 190J-10, have combined the- art of oolonr-printing and photography with .tha . art of floriculture. In addition to large amount of instructive, and dcsctiptraj irrfor- . matiou relating to plants,'seeds, bulbs, etc., •: grown in the flower, kitchen,'or greenhouse ", gardens, or in the orchard, the publishers have spared no cost or pains in providng exquisito coloured plates and artistic photographic representations of choicc plants and Bowers grown in their nurseries at Locgport and in China, The arrangement and onto of the manual is excellent, and (the information given is clear and concise. ' New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide Tables, 1910."—This well-compiled armtnlia to hand, and it can lay claim to bo one o|, tlio most useful publications issued* from , tho Government printing office. In adßitionto the nautical' almanac, tide tables, find : supplementary information to date, the work ' contains much valuable information to ' mariners, including instructions ia regard to drowning accidents, instructions for saving; life by rocket-apparatus, regulations for pre- ' vontirg collLsionn at sea, etc. Tho publi-i ration is invaluable e,s it reference w>rk to ■ tno manner, and to throe engaged! ■in ship- ' ping, whether ashore or afloat. The Magpie, which has riow come to bo ' considered a permanent local institution, made its ninth monthly appearanoe last week. . current number fully bears out tho pro- : miso of earlier issues, and contains 'somo ' . M.pital cartoons of local mem and crisp oqjj*, menfs on pissing events.