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Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1924, Page 4

Never in the memory of the oldest inhabitant has the province of Otago experienced such a long period of dry weather. As illustrating this fact it may be stated that during, all last summer not one cricket match had to be postponed on account of wet weather and during the winter months the uniform fine weather waa even more pronounced. Every senior football match was played on its appointed Saturday. A question to the Minister for Agriculture given notice of by Mr. J. C. Thomson (Wallace) in the House was whether, seeing the success that has attended the settling in this Dominion, under the sheepowners’ fund scheme, of the sons of English sailors who lost their lives in the Great War, a similar scheme could be inaugurated for the settling of New Zealand youths on the land. To thia the Hon. W. Noisw’orthy replied in the House of Representatives; “The scheme referred to was financed by tlia wool-growers patriotically devoting to this purpose the surplus profits due to them from the sale of wool to the Home Government. In the case of 'New Zealand youths the Government is assisting in another way by providing a two-years’ course of farm training at Ruakura, which is likely to be extended in the very near future.”

The West, although more progressive than the East, apparently has several things to learn from the oldest civilisation in the world. Lecturing at the Lyceum Club, Miss M. Root told Auckland women that she had travelled in many countries, but nowhere had she found children with such beautiful manners as those of the children of China. During a year’s stay in that country, she had never seen one child strike another, nor did parents behave roughly to their children. Throughout the country, there prevailed a gentleness and culture unknown to the rect of the world. Every child was required to learn from end to end the Confuscian Book of Etiquette, a book of morals and manners, whose influence had swayed the nation for more than a thousand years. The Superintendent of Technical Education reports, in his annual review a large increase in the enrolment of fulltime pupils in technical high school, and also of full-time pupils in the day classes of other technical schools, such as Hamilton, New Plymouth, Ashburton, Palmerston North and Timaru, which are practically conducted as technical high schools* but are not recognised as such by the department. The total enrolment of full-time day pupils was approximately 5700, an increase of over 90d on the numbers for the previous year. The most encouraging feature of evening class work at the present time is probably the large enrolment of apprentices in the building and allied trades in the larger technical schools. The increase is an indication of renewed activity in the building trades throughout the Dominion. A similar large increase in numbers of pupils from the electrical trades is probably due to the demand for electricians in connection with the hydro-electric, schemes now being developed in this country.

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