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Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1931, Page 4

A temporary expedient for improving the acoustic properties of the Hamilton Supreme Court has been adopted. Sixlong horsehair mattresses have been suspended along the walls of the courtroom. The mattresses have deadened the echoes and the evidence of witnesses was clearly heard on Monday. It is proposed to blanket the walls with white wadding as a permanent measure. Exceptionally cold mornings were experienced in Hamilton and surrounding centres in the Waikato over the weekend. There were 7.2 degrees of frost on Sunday and 11.8 degrees on Monday. The low temperatures resulted in a number of water-pipes bursting in Hamilton, while in many instances the water in the taps was frozen. “I have expressed from this court more than once that if a married mau on relief work, who is subject to a maintenance order, does not pay to his wife all that money he receives over and above the rates for single men, he must go to gaol; there are no two ways about it,” said Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M., in the Maintenance Court at Christchurch on Monday morning. “If lie takes it for himself, he is doing so under false pretences.”

“The greatest weakness of the age is the craving to ‘get rich quickly,’” said the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, speaking to the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides at Auckland on Sunday. One result is foolish and extravagant gambling, followed often by poverty, disillusionment and discontent, and a disinclination to climb the ladder of life rung by rung, energetically and with self-respect, to the summit of our capacity, if not of our ambition. The lack of home discipline when we are young often accentuates this restless longing to secure the prizes of life without having earned them. But this craving is not confined to the acquisition of money or even of social position.” Mr. Johns, of Wanganui, who has just returned from a trip to England, states that in most phases of education New Zealand is very well advanced, especially with regard to elementary schools. One respect in which the primary schools of London show superiority is in a greater degree of specialisation, each teacher on the staff of sdhool being deputed to take one or more subjects with several classes. Reorganisation is now taking place in London and other parts of England, _ senior pupils of the primary schools being drafted off According to ability into secondary, central (corresponding to our junior high schools) and vocational schools, a movement which is doing much to allow children of all classes to make the most of their natural bents. In Italy, Mr. Johns said, education is regarded as of first importance, and schools are splendidly equipped, and the most modern methods are in use. An open-air school in Milan, where some 1500 children of tubercular parents were given an education with an agricultural bias, was amazing. The school was, in effect, a village in itself, with its own church, picture theatre, farm and live-stock, and hospital, in addition to beautifully equipped school buildings. Forty-five forward and store cows, and entries of fresh conditioned, cows, bulls and weaner Jersey heifers are included in Newton King’s Kaponga sale catalogue for Friday. It is not low price alone that makes a bargain, but low price combined with sound absolute reliable quality. When you make a purchase of drapery from the Hustlers, you can be sure that the goods will come up to expectation. The most precious asset we have is the confidence of our customers, and no effort is too great to ensure that your dealing with us shall be satisfactory.* Just at present there are special lines, to be picked up at a reduced price, which means four pounds will go further when these lines are wanted lines. It means a further saving. See McGruer’s, Central ■ Devon Street, advertisement, then act.