NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 62, 26 May 1928, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

"All right, Boys," said the Hon. A. D. McLeod to the Kohuratahi deputation o n Thursday when assuring them of his sympathy. .But sympathy is not so good as money for metalling a road. N # * * '■ Quite a number of dear old gentlemen throughout the country are taking great interest in the length of girls' skirts, believing apparently thai a "show of stocking makes the whole world sin." ..' _ * 4 * # * Miss Maud Royden, the well-known woman preacher, told an Auckland reporter that she cannot see any harm in girls and women smoking. In fact, she smokes herself. No doubt the Featherston Chamber oT Commerce will deal with her at the next meeting. # # * Thirty-eight political parties faced the electors in Germany last Sunday when the Ministry was defeated. The cables do not state whether the defeat is blamed on to vote splitting by those whom the electors "treated i so ungratefully.|" ;** * »

It has been found necessary to replace the present obsolete and unsatisfactory heating system at the Primary School with something that will keep the place warm. And 1/3 of the cost has to be found by the School Committee, which already_is bearing a hefty financial responsibility. Tiler's seems to be something wrong somewhere, for surely the Government, in a matter like this, should bear the whole cost. If the whole of the building became so unsatisfactory that it should have to be replaced by another, the cost of tt including the installation of up-to-date heating would be borne by the State. Why the differentiation? ** * * At a Wellington meeting there cropped up a matter which occurs at a great many gatherings much to the bewilderment of long suffering pressmen. A man made a speech and at one stage uttered the usual "The Press should not take this," whereupon Mr R. Semple objected, saying that if remarks were to be kept secret, the meeting should go into committee, otlferwi.se the Press would get hopelessly fogged. Tbis sort of thing happens too often, and frre position. They do not care to be discourteous and ignore such a request, while on the other hand a remark uttered under such circumstances often alters the whole position. It often happens in Stratford, and it is to be hoped that the practice will not continue.