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Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14150, 29 July 1916, Page 2

V "^rty orie^hii-d of the teachers in are..-.'iinceTfcificated,-'- f said Air J .Caughley, Assistant Director of ■lLclu-eatipn, tho other ovoxiing. He was speakijig on che subject of ceJ-tificat^ at the time, and .-mei-tioned that'his arpiment against only one «srtificatd being issued to teachers--was that ifw-a's essential thdf a series of examinations should he held so that ihe bestteacli-^iT, cculd be found,' Jtvi-ould also.givo.''thte youngor- toaehei-3 isome cthject to Avork ror. . -;-■•

In Oakland,; the. famous residential' ■suburb of Bau- Francisco, the 'practice bas been fqllplvecl:iri'.-the better qua Hers' of dispensing . with' fences .between houses so that £he gardens extend uninterrupted along both; sides'^ th;? streets. •",An impTov.ement' on . similar hnc.s Csays tlif- Auckland :''Star"), has boon .effected-.in Aucl--]ancl c on the Albert Park .frontap't' to Bo wen avenue' .'arid-"VictpH-3! ■ Quadrant ■;the la wns now ruhJiU.^g ■rlght.dbwii io tho sidewalk. '

! A: lneteoviie; or f.om? similar mnni-i fpstation of :the:iniajcsty-pf.-the heavens. M'as■'o.bse.vvpd the -other-sight at-Onr>->nni i (reports. tHe '-'Mail:-).- ; A'shoi't.nas]i,:so vivid as to resemble, the .near c-sxplosioii! of .-Targe qunntity'vof- mafrnesinm pnw-! ct'or, octC'iirVpcl'.directly o(7.erlioad-; reiiclfe'i:- j .-i.ng-^.evevy detail/, of ''tfio^landscape' :vs dear r as at .;noonday,varid almost Iblhid-' .ing;th"ose,^v.ho'■ looked ar,-itV/,Tlie night ,v-ns v! f|par nnclo^arryj asiicl the 'Ifrvul i^ nn f )li nz y. cvh sh ":. -•.^Vln'ch; I followed '- the-, pl^iromennii'By ,a:;fuir'haJf-niiniite camp as i^i ;cveji greater surprise: than tiiV>. flasliV:.' The- tliedry1 .advanced thsii'.;.,-tl.ie';4aMi!'-;"vva.s"' caused, by: the;comjlrustiqn^of the^m^eori]^ ■tli^>earbh'sya^Gspiiere^va|i^^ i byl^tg :{imme^i^e^expl6si6n.;V*T^is'" as probablj'? the^case^ a^ the^flasli' ended■ i h a y; marv^llo usly'' brilii ant.^ffiir st -pf*stars.