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Otago Witness, Issue 3871, 22 May 1928, Page 38

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The architect to the Otago Education Board on Thursday submitted to the-board a block plan of the new school on the site at the corner of Albany street and the highway. The plan showed a possible lay out of the proposed buildings, with the main block facing Albany street. Further consideration will be given to the question.

The Gazette published last week contains the new motor omnibus regulations and regulations a.s to the constitution of the board of Maori ethnological research. Even such a recognised barren wilderness of facts and figures’ as the New Zealand Official Year Book contains an occasional oasis of humour, albeit such oases have to be earnestly sought. Of all. places the least likely to contain such a welcome diversion would be the index, and yet there some of the most amusing tit-bits of the book are found. The various items appearing in the index are arranged in strict alphabetical order, and one is struck with the coincidental associations that occur. Amongst the E’s, “ e gg s ” is ’ immediately followed by “ elections,” which seems appropriate. In the H’s “hay, quantities consumed,”" precedes “ heads of departments.” In the A’s, Assembly general, members,” is immediately followed by “ asses and mules,” while “geese” and “general assembly” are associated in the G’s.

At the annual meeting of the Otago branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute on Thursday the President (Mr Forrester) stated that the Director of Education had spoken about the new syllabus, and had said that he was prepared to receive suggestions, but reserved the right to make the final decision. The executive in Wellington, which would meet some time in June, wanted 12 teachers from all parts of the Dominion to act with it, and it was asking the branches to nominate teachers to represent them at a conference. Probably three days would be occupied in going through the syllabus, and suggestions would then be made to the department The branch decided to nominate four delegates to the conference. On the motion of Mr T. R. Coutts, it was decided that the question of the election of representatives be left over for discussion by the branches, which will be requested to forward nominations. Tha selection will finally be made by tha executive.

A resident of Tiinaru, who has just returned from a visit to Central Otago, says that the country there is looking wonderfully fresh and green (states the Herald). The country had been very dry and brown all summer, owing to the absence of rain, but since the breaking of the drought, at the end of the summer, the grass had made rapid growth, and stock was everywhere looking well. Oats, which had practically lain dormant while the drought was on, had since grown, and it seemed curious to see it at this time of year, green and in ear, as it now is in

some places. At the next meeting of the Otago Hospital Board the Finance Committee will recommend that the terms agreed upon by the Hospital Boards’ Association of New. Zealand for treatment of members of friendly societies in hospitals be approved and offered to the Dunedin United Friendly - Societies’ Council with the addition that such agreement must include all financial members of the order with which any .agreement is made. The school attendance officer (Mr J. E. Ryan) reported to Thursday’s meeting of the Otago Erducation Board as follows:—“I beg to report for the month ended May 14 that, prior to the schools closing for the winter term holidays on May 4, there seemed to be a good deal of illness prevailing, but with the exception of a few cases of scarlet fever, it was mostly severe colds that the pupils were suffering from. Three convictions under the Education Act were obtained in the Magistrate’s Court, Mosgiel.” The Gazette issued last week shows that for the month of April, 1928, the total live births registered for the urban areas numbered 1029, compared with 1138 in March, a decrease of 109. The deaths in April were 462, a decrease of 26 as compared with the previous month. Of the total deaths males contributed 252 and females 210. Fortyseven of the deaths were children under five years of age, being 10.17 per cent, of the whole number. Thirty-nine of these were under one year of age. The Otago Education Board, at its meeting on Thursday, fixed Monday, June 11, as the date for the election of school committees in 46 districts which failed to elect on April 30.

During the visit of the late Mr H. E. , Pratten, Minister of Trade and Customs on the Australian Federal Government, to Dunedin in March last, the executive ■of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce conferred with him on the question of the restoration of the Melbourne-Hobart-Bluff shipping service, and requested that he should endeavour to stimulate interest in the project in Australia, on his return to the Commonwealth. In April last, after Mr Pratten’s return to Australia, the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce (Mr H. P. West) again communicated with Mr Pratten on the subject, and last week received the following reply, which, apparently, was indicted by Mr Pratten shortly before his death:— “ I desire to thank you for your letter of April 13, and to express my appreciation of the kindness manifested to me by your members during my hurried but pleasant visit to your city. Regarding shipping communication between your Dominion and the Commonwealth, this matter is being dealt with by the Prime Minister’s Department, and I shall pass on your communication to Mr Bruce. I am hopeful that something will eventuate to improve the present position which you set out. Your Prime Minister is, I understand, co-operating with Australia in the matter, and any communications from here will therefore be addressed to Mr Coates.”

The Director-general of Health states that too much is being spent in the South Island in the tuberculosis institutions compored with those in the North Island,” slid Mr W. Bryant at a meeting of the Ashburton Hospital Board last week, “ and that a commission of medical men would be set up to go into the question. But where would he get better men than those the boards have now? Capital ex--penditure at Waipiata is almost complete, and what has been spent has been perfectly justified.” The Chairman (Mr F. W. Watt) said that not one board in the North Island had done anything in the erection of a T.B. sanatorium. The Government had erected two, one for men and one for women, and had offered to hand them over to the North Island boards without payment of a penny. The Government had provided for the North Island, but had never done anything for the South Island, where the boards had had to do everything out of their own revenue, with some assistance from the Government. It was a matter of setting one island against the other. Mr Bryant Baid patiests had to be in the sanatorium for a certain period to become acclimatised, so that they could get new blood to fight disease. The Chairman said the work done waa absolutely justified.

Although it was stated that returned soldiers -would be strenuously opposed to the suggestion, the Waitcmata Electric Power Board passed a resolution expressing the opinion that Anzac Day should be observed in future on the Sunday nearest to April 25. It was contended (says our Auckland correspondent) that the significance of Anzac Day would not be lost if the proposal were carried into effect, and in addition, casual labourers would not be penalised through having to lose a day’s wages.

New Zealand mails which were despatched from Auckland by the Aorangi on April 11 for the United Kingdom, via Vancouver, arrived in London on May 12.

“ I am satisfied that there is not much in the talk about the Tourist Department persuading people to visit the North Island rather than the South,” said Mr R. L. Wigley, managing director of the Mount Cook Motor Company, in the course of an address to representatives of local bodies at Queenstown on Saturday evening. “It is like this: If New Zea’landers visit Australia they naturally make for Sydney, where all the boats go. The same applies to New Zealand. The majority of boats go to the North. Island ports, and the visitors naturally congregate there. It is our job to attract them south. The people who try to bring influence to bear are the North Island residents, and one of the weaknesses they work on for all they are worth is the term “ cold lakes.” We should do our utmost to institute the name Southern Lakes, for the other name has created a totally wrong impression in dozens of cases. Strangers are encouraged to believe that they will freeze at the “ cold lakes.”

“ Shopkeepers pay a heavy rate, and it is not fair to bring in competitors at a nominal rental of £lO a year. I am strongly against street-corner stalls,” said Mr 11. Halliday at the meeting of the executive of the Dunedin City Ratepayers’ Association last week when a letter was received from Messrs Stewart, Dawson, and Co., Ltd., complaining that the City Council had granted a per.nit for the erection of a stall for the sal 2 of peanuts adjacent to their premises in Dowling street. “ This is the thin edge of the wedge. We ought to do all in our power to stop it,” said Mr W. Paterson. The Chairman stated that if the association was antagonistic to the erection of street stalls, something should be done immediately. On the motion of Mr Halliday it was decided to ask the council to refuse permits for stalls for private vendors in the shopping areas of the city.

“One has only to attend these meetings, analyse the cases, and cross-examine some of the debtors to realise fully the extent of the poverty in the city, due mainly to unemployment.” This paragraph was contained in a report furnished by the Fees Committee to the Auckland Hospital Board (reports our special correspondent). The report stated that single men again predominated among the debtors, many of them having their parents dependent on them and being unable to meet their debts. Hundreds of letters were sent to the board expressing regret for inability to settle accounts, the causes generally being unemployment and sickness. Asummary of the fees collected during the past year, compared with the previous year, showed that last year there was an increase in the collection from in-patients of £1709. Fees from in-patients amounting to £46,038 were written off last year, compared with £28,365 during the previous year. A number of accounts ranging from £lOO to £llBB is included in these figures. The largest accounts are in respect of two patients who have been bedridden for a number of years. One patient owes £llBB and the other £5OO. In none of these cases was it possible to collect a penny. The Fees Committee has some unusual experiences, the report stated. A foreigner who was 15 days in hospital in October last paid £3 in reduction of his account of £7 4s 6d. He was not heard of again, but last week a draft for the balance was received direct from him and issued through a bank in Germany. The Mayor of Port Chalmers (Mr T. Anderson) has been notified by Mr J. M. Dickson M.P., that Cabinet has approved of the expenditure of £250 in bringing up to date the building now occupied by the police at Port Chalmers. The work is to be put in hand at once. “ Some difficulty is being experienced in filling vacancies as they occur on the resident medical staff at Auckland Hospital owing to the fact that the numbers of qualified medical men being turned out by the Otago Medical School are diminishing,” commented Dr Maguire, medical superintendent of the Auckland Hospital, in his annual report to the board (reports our special correspondent). He added that they had been working shorthanded for several months. A number of lady resident medical officers had been taken on the staff during the past year and had proved a great success. They had shown themselves diligent and attentive in their work, and were liked by both patients and staff. The question of preference for British eoods was raised at a meeting of the Manukau County Council on Tuesday (reports our special correspondent in Auckland) when the replacement of the engineer’s motor car and motor truck was considered. The Engineer recommended an American make of vehicle in both instances, chiefly on the grounds of the comparative cost. An American truck was approximately £75 cheaper than a British lorry of similar capacity. “ There is no doubt American cars are more comfortable,” said the Chairman (Mr F. M. Waters). Other members expressed the opinion that ’ British-made vehicles were unsuitable for colonial conditions. “ The board has agreed with a policy of buying British or Dominion-manufactured goods in preference wherever possible,” said Mr L. Gilbertson, who moved as an amendment that a British make be procured in both instances. His motion lapsed, as there was not a seconder. It was decided to purchase American vehicles as recommended by the engineer.

Reference was made by Mr A. E. Ansell (president of the Dunedin City Ratepayers’ Association) at the meeting of the executive of that body last week, to the fact that the General Committee of the City Council had refused an application for permission to display advertising signs on the walls of premises near the Gardens on the ground that the locality was a residential one. He had also noticed, he stated, that the committee had recommended that, as a matter of future policy, licenses for advertising hoardings should not be granted for any locality which might be regarded as a residential one. He thought that ratepayers should be asked to watch carefully how councillors voted on the question. In respect to this matter some ratepayers had a grievance against certain members of the council. The council should not enforce on the inhabitants of humble cottages what it would not allow in such streets as Royal terrace. It was decided to write to the council expressing approval of tlfe ’ action suggested by the General Committee.

The beneficial results attained by the school medical service are referred to in the report of the Syllabus Revision Committee to the Minister of Education. In recommending that the system of school medical inspection be extended to include all secondary pupils to the end of their fifteenth year, the committee states that the evidence tendered by Dr Ada Paterson, director of the division of school hygiene, was of a nature so striking as to make it apparent that the ultimate saving of time that would otherwise be lost through ill-health, and the consequent great increase in the production of material wealth and of happiness, would repay a hundredfold the initial expense of securing it through the school medical service, surely one of the most economically profitable institutions in existence. One instance is given: Between 1913, when the school medical service was established, and 1926 the average height of New Zealand boys between 12 and 14 rose iin, that of the girls nearly In; while the average weight of the boys increased by about IJlb, and of the girls by about 31b. Physical defects in the same period decreased about 80 per cent.

Having run their course, severa. 1 of the locomotives imported by the department in 1901 from America have been dismantled at the Newmarket workshops. Twentyseven years would appear to be a rather short life for locomotives as we know them in New Zealand (states the New Zealand Railways Magazine), and the fact that some of the engines imported from Britain as far back as the middle ’seventies are still running well and giving good service is excellent proof of the staying quality of the British-made article. The department has not ordered any locomotives from America since 1911 (with the exception of 10 from the Baldwin Works at Philadelphia during the war), its locomotive requirements being supplied by its own and other New Zealand workshops (supplemented occasionally by locomotives of British manufacture). Witl' the completion of the department’s workshops building programme, all locomotives and other rolling stock will be manufactured in the Dominion. “ New Zealand has produced a censor who should take a high place among those who have added to the gaiety of nations,” says the Waikato Times. “ There was once an English dramatic censor, a Mr Larpent, who refused to allow the word ‘ gammon ’ to be used in a play ‘ because he had a friend of that name in Hampshire? Our censor seems to have improved on this. He will not permit the word ‘ Hamilton ’ to be used in the title of the kinema comedy produced here, and has also ordered the excision of the town’s name from a subtitle containing an ironical allusion to the Sabbatic atmosphere pervading Hamilton on a Saturday afternoon. One can only conclude that the censor may have a friend, or perhaps a distant relative, who lives in Hamilton, and who resents the least insinuation that any one of Hamilton’s husbands might fall short of perfection or any hint that this town is not a throbbing metropolis even at the week-end. We hesitate to spoil the rich flavour of the humour. But if there is Ito be b censorship it ought to be a eerious patter.*

“ I believe that the tourist traffic is going to become a really great asset to New Zealand,” said Mr R. L. Wigley, managing director of the Mount Cook Motor Company, in the course of an informal address to members of the County Councils Conference at Lake Wanaka. “In fact,” he added, “ I honestly believe that it is going to be one of the biggest things the Dominion will have. Of course, it takes a long time for people to realise ths fact. Naturally, when they have been brought up to regard butter, wool, and other products as their principal source of revenue, it is difficult for them to accept the tourist traffic as a source of important revenue. Yet the time will come when catering for tourists will be one of our principal industries.” An announcement in regard to three benefactions was made at the meeting of the University Council on Tuesday afternoon. Mr A. H. Tonkinson forwarded on behalf of Mrs M’Gill Brown £5OO for the purpose of founding a scholarship in commerce, Miss M. G. Fuller, on behalf of the Home Science Students, forwarded a cheque for £lO7 5s for the Home Science Building Fund, and the sub-dean of the medical faculty forwarded a cheque for £lOO from the estate of the late Dr R. B. P. Monson for a medal in clinical surgery. The council expressed its sincere thanks to the donors for their gifts. Opossum farming is becoming one of the exact sciences. The Wellington Acclimatisation Society has received an inquiry from the director of the Taronga Zoological Park Trust, in Sydney, which said: “Could you give me any idea as to the number of acres that the opossums referred to in your last report were caught on? We have an inquiry on fur farming, and this information would be very useful.” Most members of the society thought this information difficult to supply, unless the number of acres on the plan were given. The number of square miles in the Wellington province was another suggested source for the information. The problem was left with the secretary.

Incompatibility of temperament, Miss Maude Hoyden remarked in the course of an address to women in Christchurch, was one of the greatest of all domestic problems, and it was really hard to strike a solution of it. “ Try with all your brain,” she urged, to understand the other’s point of view, and do cultivate £. sense of humour. When someone is exasperating it is usually through a very small thing. It is not because he commits a burglary or a murder, but because he makes a noise when he cats his soup. Try to recognise that it is just as difficult for the other one as it is for you, and keep th.’t sense of pro-, portion.” . i ■ ' ’ >

“ In view of the recent remarks by Mr Justice MacGregor in the Auckland Supreme Court regarding the increase in crime, it is interesting to note the combative steps which are being taken in England,” writes Mr J. Wade, of Birkenhead, to the Auckland Star. He points out that the Norwich Police Force runs a club for the poorer classes of that city. There is a social hall, gymnasium, and canteen. The formation of the club has had the result of reducing crime. The police take it in turns to supervise when off duty, and the result has been the establishment of a friendship which has been reciprocated. The Norwich police have got the boys to learn that the police are not a natural enemy, and that they are ready at all times to help young men. even if the latter have gone wrong. “If something of . this ideal were set afoot in Auckland, it would probably have the same good* result,” states Mr Wade.

Blind and stone deaf —an aged Maori whose evidence was required in connection with a dispute between two Maori brothers provided a difficult problem for the Gisborne Police Court recently. Yet despite the fact that the old man could neither see nor hear, questions were put to him and answers received by jrteans of an extraordinary language of the hands, an intensely interesting exhibition. The Maori witness Minerepa Te Rure, over 80 years of age, was led into the court by who was to act as interpreter of the unusual language, and a dispute, arose when it was learned that she was a sister of the parties. Finally, however, the magistrate permitted her to act as interpreter, the Maori brothers standing by and listening to the old man’s replies. By moving the fingers of witness’s right hand in various .ways the interpreter was able to put to him questions of considerable length, and to receive from him equally lengthy verbal replies, wl’i.-.h the old man made more forcible with realistic signs.

A bulky Supplementary Gazette has been issued containing a register of nurses published in accordance with the Nurses and Midwives’ Registration Act, 1925. ' t

At the meeting of the University Council on Tuesday a communication was received from the manager of the Dunedin Savings Bank stating that the bank had allocated £2OOO to the Museum Extension Fund and £lO9O to the chair of commerce. The Chancellor (Mr T. K. Sidey, M.P.) moved that the council tenders its sincere thanks to the Savings Bank for its gifts, and congratulates the trustees on their recognition of the value of the University and its value to Dunedin. The motion was seconded by Mr Morrell, who said that all the members of the council were grateful to the Savings Bank trustees for their recognition of the University. The motion was carried unanimously.

The librarian of Otago University, in his annual report, presented at the meeting of the council on Tuesday, stated that an interest in the German language has been lately awakened and the number of students who are reading German literature is noticeably on the increase.

Towards the end of 1927, the drum which was lost during the Mons retreat and which brought about Major Sir Tom Bridge’s “ toy . drum incident,” was returned to its rightful owners, the 2nd Battalion of the Princess Louise Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, by a German. Emblazoned on the drum are all the regiment’s battle, honours since 1806. The story of the recovery of the drum which was lost at Le Chateau in 1914, is a curious one. Major Goswin van Haag found it hidden in a bush near Roye, and in 1926 he gave it to Herr F. F. Eiffe, of Hamburg, who saw “ Mons ” in London. Herr Eiffe was greatly impressed by the portion depicting Sir Tom Bridges buying the toy drum and whistle and then rousing the exhausted troops, so he decided to send his trophy to the regimental depot-at Perth. The drum is still in good condition and the generous donor was thanked by the War Office for his gift.

In connection with the jubilee celebrations of Christchurch this month the Mayor (the Rev. J. K. Archer) proposed to have a free jubilee dinner provided for the unemployed of the city, but on Wednesday the. unemployed decided that a public dinner would only be a parade ,of their humiliation, and that they would feel patronised. They decided that while appreciating the excellent sentiment which prompted the Mayor’s action they would prefer to have the equivalent of the dinner in cash or work. The Mayor consequently abandoned his scheme.

An address by Miss Valentine, officer in charge of the special class work carried out by the Education Department, was given at the Wellington Education Board’s meeting on Wednesday morning (reports our special correspondent). Miss Valentine said that at a conservative estimate of 1 per cent, there were 13,000 backward people in the Dominion. Probably 2 per cent., or 26,000, would be nearer the mark.

There was a heavy mortality amongst the Eastern animals consigned to the Auckland Zoo by the steamer Sussex, which arrived at Auckland on Wednesday morning (says our special correspondent). There were a Straits Settlement buffalo and a pair of tapirs, ; which were loaded at Singapore. Unfortunately the (changing climate a 4 . the; vessel progressed southward proved too icojd for the tapirs, and they both died. i The young buffalo, however,” is of a tougher constitution; and appeared very healthy and vigorous when landed. There was’ -also a party of! six monkeys consigned to Dunedin. . Of these, two died on the voyage, and the survivors are as yet 'very miserable in this colder climate. ' : _• £.

The old" school •at Taieri' Ferry has been unused since the end of 1926. It was reported to the Education Board on Wednesday that the building is suffering damage, and it -,aJ -■Aei.-ide.i, with the consent of the Education Department, to offer both school and residence for sale. Similar action will probably be taken with respect to the school site and buildings at Rongahere. “ There is no indication that provision has been made for unemployment relief. Winter is on us. and we shall have a repetition of what happened last year.” said CT J. W. Munro, when the Finance Committee’s report was being considered at the meeting of the City Council last week. He thought that the committee should consider tae ?.uvisability of raising a loan of £lO.OOO for unemployment relief, he stated. The Government would certainly grant a subsidy as it had done last yer”. It was the duty of the council to make some provision for unemployment during the winter months. The diamond jubilee of the constitution of the borough of Timaru will fall on July 13 of this year, and a meeting was held last week to consider the best method of celebrating the occasion. A resolution was passed in favour of staging an industrial week and a committee v as set up to enlist the support of the business men of the towm. It is reported that the canvass for signatures in the Morningtcn district in favour of the petition for the re-estab-lishment of the ward system is meeting with much success.

Travel de luxe for wealthy tourists and holiday parties- is provided by the latest acquisition to the Railways De partment’s fleet of rolling stock. A luxurious car for observation and accommodation has been placed on the line in Wellington, and will be. available for attachment to' any train on any part of the New Zealand lines. An attendant is always on the car, and all meals are procurable as the journey progresses, or as the palatial carriage rests on a railway siding. Sleeping accommodation for six people is provided in three two-berth cabins. The car is the one which con veyed the royal visitors around the North Island early last year, and which later was engaged by Paderewski. It has been remodelled and transformed into a vehicle with the requirements necessary for a travelling hotel. First-class fare's are charged for all passengers, and above that 2s 6d a mile for the use of the car. For a part}- of six going from Wellington to Rotorua the trip could be accomplished for approximately £5O, allowing a night and day-spent at National Park.

If men are able to work their way around the worid, I do not see why women should not. Most women, if they are put to it, can work at something or other.” So said Miss B. D. Lewis, of Orangeville, Ontario, who is trying out the experiment. With a friend, Miss Helen Edwards, of Edmonton, also a Canadian, she left for New Zealand in October last on the first stage of her world tour. When asked why she chose to come to New Zealand particularly, Miss Lewis said that what she had heard of this country had made her determine to include, it in her great adventure. After they leave New Zealand Miss Lewis and her friend plan to go across to Australia and from there 1 they will •go to Ceylon, and probably India. Palestine is another country they are anxious to see and, with it in view, they have been acquiring all the information they can get about it. “We have been told there are wonderful openings there,’’Miss Lewis said, “ and I have had one or two friends who have tried it with great success.” Houses in Canada, they said, were built to withstand the cold and were so well heated that no matter what the temperature was outside, inside it was so warm that only the lighest clothing was necessary. When we go out, though, it is a different matter, and we pile cn ever so much,” Miss Lewis added.

The attention of the Government is to be drawn by the Napier Borough Council to the fact that 13 motor buses running between Napier and Hastings under the control of the Railways Department are not licensed, as required by the Motor Omnibus Traffic Act, 1926.

This year the annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand will be held in Wellington, and it is proposed that the conference shall be held on Friday, October 12, and Monday, October’ 15, the intervening days being taken .up with a programme of entertainment and excursions for the visiting delegates, to be organised by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce as hosts. The programme has yet to be completed, but every opportunity will be taken to show the visitors the scenic attractions and motor drives available within easy reach of the city. The Auckland Electric Power Board has accepted a tender for £73,360 (states our Auckland correspondent) for the erection of an eight-storey building in Queen street, portion of which will be used for the board’s office. ’The site cost the board £71,600. ’ ' • ■ '

“It should be either removed or burnt,” said a county councillor at present visiting Lake Wanaka, in referring to the wharf at Pembroke. His opinion is shared by the majority of people who visit the charming little tourist resort, and all .agree that the old and almost completely dilapidated structure at the lakeside is both an eyesore in otherwise lovely surroundings, and a menace to those who are compelled to use. Some years ago a new wharf was built a short- distance round the lake, but this was found unsuitable for- several reasons, besides which ■ the water iri the vicinity; has shoaled because of the movement of the gravel. Recently the Government agreed to pay a subsidy of £2 for £1 towards the cost of a new wharf on the original site. The estimated cost is £6OO, but so far, the Lake County has not seen its way clear to find the necessary £2OO. It is possible, however, that the difficulty will be overcome in the near future. In the meantime Pembroke possesses two wharves —one in hoplessly shallow water, and the other an unsafe jumble of broken and disjointed planks.

After visiting Dunedin and Timaru, Miss Maude Royden reached Christchurch. “I had a lovely time, and I was very happy,” she said to a Lyttelton Times reporter, when speaking of her southern visit. “ I’ve always heard that New Zealand was like England: now I know it is perfectly true. The people are like the English, the speech is like the English, and after four months in the United States —although I like, the Americans very much — it feels like coming home to be here.” It was in Dunedin, however, said Miss Royden, that she really felt like being at home, for in the Old Country they were used to being “ bullied ” by the Scots and so among the Scotch people at Dunedin she felt really at home.

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