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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12817, 17 July 1912, Page 2

.. , A harwood tree .recently* handled .on the Upper Yarra '(Victoria)* yielded palings to the value of i £115. It- had a diameter of sft 9in at a height of Seven feet from the ground. .';. 1 i ■/■*., A letter received by an, Auckland resident froni l '&" friend who is now visiting Norway states that the country is inlakingj- rapid stifi {.-substantial progress, and is developing her natural resources by dverjh legitimate nieans; In one commodity — iee — 'Norway does a large < export trade. Last year America imported some 25,000 tons, and Germany bO,OOO tons, and Norwegian, manufacturers ar,e getting a good name for their oil engines, which are highly sjVoken of. One of; fthewbiggest Items of. export is iron [ ore. Germany and/ Great' Britain between them, taking about a million tons i a yeai*. A Commission appointed some time ago by the: '-'Swddigh parliament to investigate the advisability of granting maternity^pensions 'ik women industrial workers" has I'recommended*1 'recommended* that, as the birth-rate 'among thesb- classes is steadily increasing;. >a certain siiriv should lw granted to women Markers during their confinement, and a furfcliei-'- weekly grant J as long as they remain, at home for the purpose of nursing their babi^s them--1 selves. In ■ Austria- \i is .pl^j'pbsed that ! a very advanced maternity scheme be ■tried. This, besides providing for 'the very poorest-class mother/ embraces also the women of the lower middle class. The various' da uses ; .propose' to give free attendanoe of midwife and doctor, a«d, if necessary, a trained 1 nurse j a premium amounting to nearly £I .a, Imonth to : each-. t mother .who:, nurses her. child 1,-fp.r. ; three monfhs, and a further allowance if the peHod is extended to six months; and the provision, of special rooms m the, factories where the midthera 'can ]iea.ve their babies m the charge qf troine'tl atrten,daiit&, . ■-' ' • i