LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11371, 2 September 1908, Page 3

LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Dr. Purdy, District Health Officer, iri a lecture last night, urged the teaching of hygiene m schools as a compulsory subject, togetlier with systematic medical inspection of schools. Let thorn have competent dentists to attend to the teeth of the children m our -schools', at least- m each of the chief centres. Dental dispensaries should be estabjlished to which all children with carious teeth should be sent. All volunteers should be allowed free to consult a dentist, who would be paid a regulation fee, according to work done. Tlie standard of the people would be raised by the subsidising of dentists. Next to a. sanatorium for consumptives and a children's hospital, he could not advise anyone desirous of leaving money to a good cause to do better than to found and endow a dental dispensary. (Applause.) A" young girl whose parents reside at Waihi was m town during fleet week, and took her young brother' out to see the sights, iln the crowd she lost sight of him, and subsequently heard that he had been injured and; taken to thje hospital. Tlie shock and sense of her failure to cany out the trust of her young relative preyed so much on her mind that when she got home she swallowed some match heads and had as a result to be taken herself to the hospital. When the ease was called on m Court it was explained tliat she had but recently recovered from a severe attack of enteric fever, and as she appeared to have regained her .mental balance the girl was allowed to return to the care of her relatives. WELLINGTON, last night. The Advisory Boards, of the New Zealand Employers' Federation has fixed Wednesday, October 7th, as the date for tlie annual meeting of the Federation. It is expected the gathering will be one of the best and most important yet held m • connection with the Federation. It was reported to the Arbitration Court that a* the result of . conferences concerning the tailors' dispute, an aglvemcnt lsad been reached m regard to the lcsj. . The points now unsettled were m reference to the number of appren-. tices to be employed', prohibition of apprentices m regard to pressing, - payments for holidays, and the fixing of a minimum weekly wage. The union asked for £3 a week "m iplace of £2 15s as. now paid. Tlie employers' representative remarked on "the scarcity of apprentices. Evidence will be taken by the Court regarding the points m dispute. INVERCARGILL. last night. At the meeting of the Southland Presbytery this morning, the Rev 11. Ferguson, of First Church accepted a he-arty and unanimous call to St. Peter's Church. Auckland. Mr Ferguson begins his new duties early m October.