TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10300, 7 March 1905, Page 3

TOWN EDITION

The Mayor of Wellington i» 'submitting to the ratepayers of tlie city the proposal of t'lie City Council to borrow -5249,000 for the following works: Extension of tlie water supply, £190,000 ; erection of a new destructor. £20,000; additions to the Central. Library, £7500; taking over the public lighting, £25,000; completing Kelbume Park, £7000. At the Hawera swimming baths last Meek, Mr Stack, m charge of. the High School boys, introduced a -custom that might with advantage be frequently followed. There were 70 boys at the swimming lesson, and a certain number from each class had' to swim with their clothes on. A small boy was twice thrown into the baths audi fully-dressed* boys swam m and! rescued the apparently drowning boy. In 'case of rescue there "is generally no time for imdressing, and- boys and girls should be taught to swim with clothes on. Miss Mcintosh, the newly-, appointed assistant, is an expert swimmer. I and' is trying the same experiment with the girls-. The Training Home for 1 Maori Girls wliich the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand proposes to establish at Turakina is an institution which should! commend itself to all Avho have the welfare of the native race at heart. A native youth is hardly likely to receive any lasting benefit from a European education if he be forced.' to choose a native wife who 'has not had similar advantages to himi self. The Turaldna Training Home will provide a goodl general education for Mauri girls,, and . m addition will) train them m household*, duties, thus enabling them to obtain that experience which will be of so much value when they commence housekeeping m married life. -

Reference is made iro the annual report of the directors of tlie R-oyal Humane Society of New Zealand to the fact that the Australasian Society continues to make awards for acts of bravery m this colony. The directors feel that the NewZealand Society has established a fair and just claim foi* exclusive control m tho matter of making awards for life-saving m. New Zealand. "When the Australasian Society was established," they say, "the Royal Humane Society of England.' at. once 'withdrew from Australasia, and left tho work to the new Society, ami we naturally expect the same courtesy to be extended to us. New Zealand is no part of the Commonwealth of Australia, andi the Melbourne Society has no grounds for continuing, its operations m this colony."