Last Look Round—

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 664, 16 May 1929, Page 11

Last Look Round —

Against Dishonest Traders Addressing: the annual conference nrf the North Canterbury Farmers’ Union. Mr. Morton Francis, president of th* Canterbury Chamber of Commerce said: “It is not always realised that we in the city are as much against the dishonest trader as you farmers are. If you have any complaints in that direction you should immediately submit it to the chambers Rural Interests Committee, which will ferret out the facts.” Electrocuted Cows The question of whether farmers whose stoek was killed by contact with electric wires should receive compensation was raised at the meeting of the Central Power Board at Hamilton today. when the engineer, Mr. J. R. Ellis, reported that a cow belonging DM trocuted. The accident was due to .. fault in a held pump caused by lightning. Mr. E. F. Peacock considered it scandalous if a farmer was not covered should an animal be killed by a severed wire caused by lightning. Another member said it was an act of Cod. Mr. Fee Martin. M.P. said that Waikato farmers bore all the risk for tinmain Arapuni lines, while Auckland city reaped the benefit. He added that the Government compensated farmers to the extent of £ 10 for towers and AM for poles on the land. No action was taken. Accrediting System “I must congratulate secondary school teachers on having at last in sight the substituting of accrediting for examination in the cqjse of University entrance.” remarked the Director of Education, Mr. T. B. Strong, addressing the Secondary Schools Association at Wellington. There might be misgivings in the minds ol some, and timidity to should€‘r the responsibility on the part of others, but he had no doubt that, with suitable safeguards, the change would be of immense benefit both to pupils and to their teachers. —P.A.