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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18319, 9 August 1921, Page 6

The duties of school teachers in regard to certain skin diseases among children were referred to at a meeting of the Auckland Education Board, when it was re--ported that a teacher in the. North Auckland district had refused to take the responsibility of examining the children in his school, and excluding any- who might be suffering from any of the diseases mentioned. The secretary to the board, Mr E. C. Puidie, said that under the regulations gazetted the department threw on the teachers the responsibility of excluding any children affected with diseases such us scabies. The opinion was expressed by members that if a teacher were to attempt to exclude certain children he was simply “looking for trouble.” It was unreasonable that the teacher in question—a young man —should be placed in the position of a medical practitioner and expected to diagnose diseases of which he might have no experience. It was decided to ask that one of the medical officers of tho department should visit the school, and failing that, that arrangements be made with a local doctor to do so.

i.ules are gazetted regulating procedure on 1 appeals from sentences. It is provided t.hat an appellant, if in custody, shall not be entitled to be present on the hearing of the appeal, unless the Court of Ap- , peal grants permission. The court may order any witnesses to attend and be examined, but the appellant shall not he entitled to call any witness without the leave of the court. The decision of the court shall be pronounced by the presiding judge, or such other member as the court directs, and no separate judgment shall bo pronounced by any other member of the count. How an African native purchased a wife, for a leg of hippopotamus was related by Mr H. il. Ostler in his lecture recently. This native bore the name of Andrew, and was a splendid cook, having been taught the art at a mission station, where he also learned that to have more than one wife would debar him from belonging to the Christian Church. On the journey a hippopotamus was shot, and according to custom the moat was divided among the bearers. Andrew demanded a whole leg. When asked why he wanted so much, ho said he was hungry, although he had received several hundredweight of moat already. Ho was given the whole leg, and soon after had procured a second wife, who ran away within a month, but later returned to the husband who received gome knowledge of “The Taming of the Shrew” from the hunter, and eventually was received with open arms by the original wife. When Napoleon was a prisoner at St. Helena it cost Britain £400,000 a year to keep him there.