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Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1931, Page 6

“It is questionable whether a tour by the Director of Education is necessary, in view of the present financial position,” said Mr. E. C. Purdie, at a meeting of the Auckland Education Board on Wednesday, when reference was made to the recent visit to Auckland of Mr. T. B. Strong. Mr. Purdie said the cost would be considerable and this should be considered by the Education Department.

How easily a farmer’s financial position can be made insecure by a narrow margin in the price of wool was mentioned at a bankruptcy meeting at Ashburton this week. It was explained on behalf of the bankrupt that had he received L}d per lb more for his wool and a fraction more for lambs, the whole of the creditors would have been paid in full.

Protests against the system of the Auckland Hospital Board in making contracts for the supply of groceries were made at the annual meeting of the Auckland Master Grocers’ Association. It was stated that as a result of giving the whole business, amounting in the aggregate to about £50,090, to one firm, recipients of relief were unable to trade with grocers who had helped them in bad times. Moreover, many were obliged to travel considerable distances to obtain supplies.

“We will not grant, the free use of halls where large sums of money are spent on supper and decorations, and a small siim is handed over for a charitable object,” stated Councillor H. M. Peacock, chairman of the, library and halls committee, regarding the question of remitting rent on the municipal halls, at a recent meeting of the Masterton Borough Council. Councillor Peacock said that the question considered when applications caine before the committee, was Whether the object of the promoters was a worthy charitable one for the good of the town. . Some idea of the cold., weather in Dunedin may be gained from the fact that, according to a private letter received in Wellington, the pond in the Botanical Gardens was recently frozen over, and employees were engaged in extracting stones, some of which were as largo° as' a man’s head, that had been frozen into the ice. For this work, which was described as being unique for the gardens, planks were spread across the pond, and the ice was thick enough to bear the pressure put upon it. Household fires are blamed by Mr. A. R. Galbraith, city engineer in Christchurch, for much of the fog that is found in that city. When speaking at a meeting of the Town Planning Institute last week he said that the city was peculiarly favourably situated for studying the pollution of the atmosphcie, for one could witness the state of the air from the hills. He was of the opinion that if, by some means, electricity could be supplied cheaply enough to heat all the houses by radiators, it would be a great step toward the solution of the fog problem. The Wellington Rugby Union’s policy of distributing footballs among . the primary schools is evidently appreciated by the youthful scholars, and among the many letters of __thanks received in the course of a season a somewhat quaintly worded epistle, read at a meeting of the management committee, is, says the Post, an example. A pupil of the Pahautanui school wrote as follows: —“Secretary of the Rugby Union: Dear Sir, we thank you very much for the football which arrived here on June 3. When we blew it up we found it very easy to kick into the air. We fully appreciate it.”

Owing to the omission of the figure 1 due to a typographical error in the report of the Patua Dairy Company meeting last week, it appeared as though Mr. V. Shotter was moving to have° a salary of £7's subjected to a 10 per cent. cut. The salary should have appeared as £175. Hard quarters. A Waikato farmer finds Lisaman’s Mammitis Paint very useful for this complaint. Likes to have it on hand. Send 5s 6d to Lissaman, Box 6oA, Kaponga, and see if what he says is correct. We cannot worry over a 10 per cent, cut. Stocktaking is due and stocks must be reduced. We have made amazing sacrifices on all goods. McGruei s Sale is now on. See windows.*