LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1924, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Four applicants for work registered at the New Plymouth office of the Labour Department during the week ended on Monday. They comprised two labourers, one driver and one clerk. An eel weighing 37 pounds is reported to have been recently caught in the Kapuni River above the intake of th§ Hawera water supply (writes our Hawera reporter). The following cases of infectious diseases were notified in the Taranaki health district during the week ended on Monday:—Taranaki: Scarlet fever. 1 (0) ; diphtheria, 2 (5); cerebro-spinai ■meningitis, 1 (0). No cases were reported from the Stratford, Hawera and Patea districts. Clarice Flay, aged 15, who lives with her parents at Upper Mangorei, was admitted to the New Plymouth Hospital on Monday night suffering from slight concussion of the brain. While riding along the road the forks of a bicycle she was riding broke, with the result that she was thrown on her head. Lt was reported last night that she had a comfortable day yesterday, and her condition was satisfactory.

An enjoyable concert was provided for the patients of the New Plymouth Hospital on Monday afternoon by a party from the High School comprising the orchestra and vocalists under Air. Dobson. A bright programme of songs and musical selections was greatly enjoyed by the patients. The thoughtfulness of the boys in arranging a rare treat for the sick was stressed by Mr. M. Fraser (chairman of the Hospital Board) in expressing appreciation of the enjoyable concert given. The prevalence of bicycle riding in Pukekura Park and the consequent danger to pedestrians was referred to by the superintendent in his report to the board last night. The superintendent asked permission to prosecute anyone glaringly defying the law in this matter. Members of the board spoke in strong terms of this growing danger and the necessity for taking steps to check it. It was unanimously decided to prosecute in the event of any offender being reported. ‘‘There is a fundamental principle in our training that is often overlooked by parents; we aim at team work, at service to others,” said Colonel C. G. Powles, C.M.G., D. 5.0., officer commanding the Central Command, at the break-ing-up ceremony of the New Plymouth Technical College last night. Colonel Powles stressed that in the. training given to the territorials and senior cadets the aim was not to make perfect individuals, but to make perfect teams, in which every member was striving to do his best, not for himself, but for the benefit of the team. A cheque for €36 3s 4d was received by the Taranaki Hospital Board yesterday as a straight-out donation from the West Coast Settlement Reserves Committee. In a covering letter the secretary of the committee (Mr. T. P. stated that the donation had been voted to the board with special mention of the Tikorangi and Opunake parts of the district, for which the funds originally accrued. The objects for which the committee was brought into being having been successfully accomplished, the committee had now disbanded. The board decided to forward a letter of warm appreciation to the committee for its generosity and to devote the money (which is subject to a Government subsidy of £1 for £1) to improvements ” inside the Rangiatea Home. "I am glad to see that in some countries there is a tendency to revert to the old idea that a classical education, with its stern mental discipline, is a better training for all walks of life than the teaching of a heterogeneous mass of knowledge which cannot but be superficial,” said the principal of St. Cuthbert’s College (Auckland) in the annual report presented at the breaking-up. ceremony. “It is an unsound principle,” she continued, “that a child should be permitted to learn merely what appeals to her, rather than to choose suitable subjects to train the mind to be orderly and capable of developing later in particular directions. I maintain that a girl trained along these lines will run her heme just as jvell, if not better, than one who has had a smattering of many subjects and has done nothing thoroughly.”

The Rev. Palgrave Davy gave addresses yesterday to the school children of West End and Fitzroy schools, where great attention was shown. Last night, at the Baptist Tabernacle, he continued his series of lectures on the Holy War. Despite the inclemency of the weather, there -was a large audience.

The Pukekura Park Board, at its meeting last night, granted permission to the New Plymouth Caledonian Society to hold an open-air concert in the park on Saturday evening, and the First Battalion Taranaki Regimental Band was granted permission to hold an open-air concert in the park on Sunday afternoon. For fine and delicate fabrics no starch so good as "Dove” Brand Starch. Ask for it by name. All grocers sell it.