THIRD EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16895, 27 November 1925, Page 11

THIRD EDITION.

Mr. S'. S. Dean, chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union, met with an. accident a few days ago, fracturing a foot while playing tennis. In the height of the cherry season in Grqytown (states an exchange), one grower employs between 70 and SO hands picking the fruit. Night tennis, which is so popular in Australia, is now making headway in Auckland. There are at present 12 courts lighted or in the course of construction.

Guessing the correct weight of the Mayor, clerk, and council of the borough of Greytown will form the subject of a competition in connection with a garden party to be held there shortly (states the Wairarapa Age). The, next Napier wool sale will lie held in the. Municipal Theatre on Monday, Drcembct' 7. commencing at 7.30 p.m. and will he continued on Tuesday, December 8. The catalogue will eiose on .Monday, November 30, or earlier it the wool committee’s allotment has been filled.

The competition among school children on. the subject of “fly swatting” initiated by the New Plymouth Borough inspector (Mr. R. Day) should be an effective piece of propaganda in this es sontial campaign. What tho children Were required to do was to, make a drawing representing the menace these disease and garni carriers arc, and to show the necessity for combating thorn.

The Agriculture Department reports that an umtsual number of cases of poisoning or suspected poisoning of stock were dealt with during the year 1924-25. Several cases of poisoning hy sheep-dips came under notice/ In one instance the use of too strong a solution of an arsenioal sheep-dip as .a wash for lice resulted in the death of 5 or 6 valuable plough horses. Difficulty has been experienced in dealing with many cases of suspected poisoning of stock, owing to senders forwarding inadequate samples, or samples not properly packed.

Speaking at a meeting of the Wellington Technical Education Board, the Director of the Wellington Technical College, Mr. J. 11. Howell, strongly urged that children of 15 years of age should not be allowed to attend nightschool. He said that he did not think young children profited at night-school, and if they did not; the time of the teachers was wasted. Children of tender years were tired in the evenings after work, especially if they did manual work during the da}-. They had no natural desire to go to night classes, and it was the parents who sent them, and the children protected themselves by going to sleep, by idling, or playing up. Last week a Government survey party which was sent up as promised by the Premier, settled down near Dawson Falls, Alt. Egmoiit. The party consists of tho surveyor, Mr Irwin, and four others, and they are likely to bo in the locality for two or three months. Mr Walkley, cecretary of the South Taranaki Automobile Association, went round the route of the proposed road with Mr Irwin, and they got as far as the Wanganui Gorge but the weather was rough, snow and rain falling, and visibility was not favorable (says the ITaWera star). The grade, however, is considered by the surveyor, after his brief preliminary traverse, to be fairly regular and uniform, and it is realised that the severest obstacle will bo the Mahganui Gor^e.

“There seems to be an unfortunate impression that it is ‘infra dig, ’ for a plumber to carry his own tools,” said Mr. Justice Frazer in the Arbitration Court at Wellington, “and that he has a boy to carry the tools.” “That is a wrong impression altogether,” returned Mr. H. Thompson, representing the Plumbers’ and Gasfitters’ Union. Mr. Frazer: “I suppose a boy really docs mean a saving of time. Somebody has to keep the little fire going, assist with ladders, and pass things along.” “They do nQt keep boys just to give assistance,” said Mr. Thompson, “because in that case the boys would never learn the trade.” Mr. Frazer: “There always seems to be a boy where there is a plumber. ”

Having visited the scene of the fatality, he was forced to the conclusion that it was his duty to say that a young life had been sacrificed through negligence on the part of someone in leaving an open sump about four feet deep where young children were allowed to play and pass to find fro. To say the least it was most unsanitary. Suck were the remarks made by Mr. J. Cow, district coroner at Ashburton, a,t the close of an inquest concerning the death of a child, aged 2 years, who fell into a sump in a back yard. A little care, such as covering or fencing the sump, would have prevented the fatality, he added. lie expressed his sympathy with the parents in their bereavement, and said that in calling attention to the cireuihstances lie trusted it Would prevent- similar fatalities occurring elsewhere.

An amusing incident occurred at the school baths recently, incidentally illustrating the. patience required to ho a schoolteacher. On certain days the children' arc taken in classes by their teachers for a- dip in the baths and amongst the lower grades tho business of seeing that tho children all get their proper clothes afterwards is some undertaking, as is shown by a recent happening. One small lad, in groat distress, complained (o his teacher that lie could not find his singlet. A search was made and the oll\cr children questioned, without success, ns to whether they had pul on a duplicate garment. The lad also had no Tuck uii round the school to ascertain from the other classes who had' also bathed, if they were plus a singlet. Next day the teacher enquired of his small charge as to whether his mother had l been angry at his loss, to which the lad cheerfully gave the exasperating reply: “Oh! It was all right, teacher. Mother found I had gone to school without a singlet vesierday.”

.At a gathering of civil engineers at Wanganui, comment, was made by Colonel Symonds, of the British Imperial Oil Cqjnpany, of the fact that ho had noticed that they were not getting anything like the value of the IS foot of tor macadam roads they were spraying. He pointed out that the edges of tho surfaces were allowed to become broken. This alloyed water to get into the road material and thus damage the surface. He found it possible to dig up the side of the roads, with a knife and no doubt one could dig up the whole road in this manner if bo cared to do so. Economy could be effected, lie suggested, if wooden kerbs were erected on the sides of the roads, and the spraying and penetration was carried right up to the kerbs. This would prevent a great deal of the bveaking-up of the edges of the sprayed roads. The timber, ho thought, that would be most suitable for this purpose was jarrnh. Possibly there were New Zealand timbers that possessed as good qualities and would serve the purpose equally ae well.