The lion. C. J. Parr, Minister of Education, expects to be in the South Island from February 11 to February 28. He will visit Christchurch. Timaru. Waimate, Fairlie, Oainaru, Dunedin, Invercargill, and Riverton (states a Wellington Press Association telegram). The Minister will inspect the various schools and hospitals en route, and receive deputations in regard to educational and health matters. Night letter telegrams will now be received at any telegraph or telephone office for transmission within the dominion (says a Press Association message from Wellington). No codes or cipher may bo used, and the messages, which cannot be sent urgent, collect, or multiple, and will not be accepted by telephone, will be accepted up to one hour of the closing of the office of origin or destination, whichever is the earlier. The charge will be Is 6d for the first 36 words, and a half-penny a word in excess. Night telegrams will not be delivered until the morning following the lodgement of the telegram. The Otago Hospital and Charitable Aid Board has informed the Inspector-general, the Otago University, and the honorary medical staff in terms of the report of the medical superintendent that, if it is proposed, during 1921, to call on hospital boards to arrange a weekly day off for the nursing staff, it will not be possible to accept University bursars (under the Public IleSith Department) in residence at the Dunedin Hospital for the ensuing year. Regulations which have been gazetted (says a Press Association telegram from Wellington) provide that in cases where the establishment of full-time or part-time schools is impracticable itinerant teachers may, with the approval of the Minister, be appointed by an education board to give house-to-fcouse instruction to pupils of school age in Isolated districts. No such teacher, however, is to be appointed until suitable accommodation in the locality is guaranteed for him. Itinerant teachers are to give instruction for not less than 20 hours on not lees than five days each week, and must, when required, furnish ttrv senUs.' inspector with Buch evidence of the pwgress of jmpils as may be required. The itinerant teacher is to receive a salary of £2OO per annum, with a travelling allowance of £SO per
annum and certain additions. In the case o r married teachers a house allowance of £3O per annum is also to be paid. Mr J. M‘Combs, M.P for Lyttelton, addressed a well-attended Labour meeting in the Plaza Theatre at 7 p.m. on Sunday on the subject of “The Workers’ Wages and the Rising Bonus.” Mr M. Silverstone, president of the Otago Labour Representation Committee, occupied the chair. The address was on the lines of one recently given by Mr M'Combs in Christchurch challenging the Arbitration Court’s judgment on the recent question of the 9s tonus. Mr Mercer, of the Aero Transport Company, Timaru, left Dunedin on Sunday afternoon in the Avro machine for Invercargill, taking Mr Mayo as a passenger. Mr Mercer, who left at 3.45 p.m., met with a very strong head wind at Balclutha, and reached Gore at 5.15. He set out again at 5.40, and arrived, all safe, at Invercargill at 6.20 after a splendid passage. The company will be giving passenger flights in Invercargill and the surrounding districts. Mr Mercer hopes to be back again about the end of the week, find will proceed to Timaru to make arrangements for having two machines in Dunedin during Carnival Week, and also two at Invercargill in February, about the Show Week there. The Canterbury Aviation Company’s machine was flying at Outram on Saturday, the first flight being a half hour trip over Dunedin with Messrs D. Nichol and C. Dawson, of Outram. There was a brisk demand for passages, but at 3.30 p.m. Captain Gray had to desist owing to slight engine trouble. The sugar which the Government has ordered from Australia, with a view to meeting the demand for jam-making, is likely to be delayed in transit owing to the stewards’ strike (says the Auckland Herald). No definite information has yet been received as to when the sugar will be shipped, but the authorities are apprehensive lest it be delayed for such a period as to defeat the object for which it is being imported. A quantity of Java sugar, destined for New Zealand, is at present delayed in Australia, and there is some uncertainty as to when it will be delivered in the dominion. In one or two instances contracts for the delivery of Java sugar during the present month have been cancelled, owing to the impression that there is no possibility of the sugar being delivered by the specified time. An immigrant from the North of Ireland, Mr Arthur Hyland, thinks that many of his countrymen would be glad to come to New Zealand if they knew of the opportunities (states the Lyttelton Times). Mr Hyland himself has just arrived by the Pakeha. He told a Post reporter that in the country districts, such as in County Down, there were many farmers on small holdings of 15 or 20 acres, who would do well in the dominion. They do not, however, read the big newspapers, and to reach them it would be necessary to send a caravan through the country. Rudolph Hermann Bock, the recluse, who was thought to be destitute, and whose dead body was found hanging from a rafter in a loft in Blue’s Point road, North Sydney, on January 6, left £1948, according to evidence given at the inquest. This wealth, it was stated, included a fixed deposit of £1650 in the Union Bank of Australia, and £2OO in the Government Savings Bank; while the sum of £ll in cash was found in his pockets, and £B7 in notes in a box in the loft. The police had been unable to trace Bock’s relatives, and the property would be placed in the hands of the Public Trustee. Other cv'donee was given that Bock paid 3s a week for the loft, and had appeared in need of assistance. The coroner’s verdict was suicide.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3489, 25 January 1921, Page 40
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