DUNEDIN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12790, 15 June 1912, Page 6

DUNEDIN NEWS.

" : -' A" - (Specis) to Herald.) ■ • .. . DUNEDIN, this day.. ' -yoal is becoming, a prized commodity. The coal shed m many houses around Dunedin is inadequate to hold a reasonable supply, and if there should be' a prolonged frost with difficulties of tvansil sonie will have to go without. One or two of the favorite brands are m small sujjply, 4nd ccal merchants already are -facing difficulties. From the Bluff comes advice that there, is practically a coal" famine there. '•• '■*. The • well-known firm of Messrs Craig I and Co. have placed an order for a 35 h.p. motor 'bus- to be used on the run between Lawrence aiftl Roxburgh, The body of the vehicle and the wheels are being specially constructed, the latter being/made particularly high, m order to cope with the bad roads m the Winter time. Should the experiment prove, a success more motors will be built' for. this firm's mail, con tract.- v .Professor White was emphatic m his evidence before the Education Commission that reading was one of the few subjects on the syllabus to which much closer attention should be given. "It has such a wide influence on life and on character," he said. "We would like very much more time fof English.. In i that we would be equipping ; the boys and girls m a much wider sense that they nfay know- .there are many false notions abroad m the world that would not exist if more attention were /riven to English."