LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15959, 25 October 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“Labour Dav” docs not signify anything- special “on the farm.” Motorists passing along the highway near Wanganui came upon some farm workers who were engaged upon the somewhat melancholy duty of hnryino- a cow which had very inconveniently died on the townsman’s holiday. “Have you ever been a land agent?” was a question put to a Government vainer in the Assessment Court at .New Plymouth last week, and the reply («*ays the Taranaki Herald) was: “Ho, thank God.’ “If i ] ia d been a few years younger, I would have taken it out of your hide.” said an angry gentleman t.o the bankrupt during proceedings at Invercargill, adding thoughtfully, “ot you would have taken it out of mine.” Geo. Guillen and Co. W* Bov’s Snorts’ Suits, nicely cut. and wellfinished. Splendid value for 25s 6d

In an announcement in this issue by the agent oli the A.’M.P. ’Society, attention is drawn to the great importance attached to life insurance by America’s foremost statesmen. The late Warren G. Harding showed practical faith in the need of assurance by carrying a protection of fifty-two thousand dollars. President Calvin Coolidge is also a firm believer in assurance. “Through its operation,” he says, “the strong contribute to the support of the weak, and the weak secure, not by favour, but by right, duly purchased and paid for, the support of the strong.” The attention of Mr. A. Burns of the Auckland Education Board was drawn to a paragraph which appeared recently in this paper, wherein it was stated that the school attendance officer was inspecting the rolls of the local schools nnd children absent from school must produce a medical certificate. Mr. Burns said that this was nonsense, for while the law demanded the attendance of all children, it would not be in tho interests of the child either from a physical or educational point of view of study while ill, and if it was necessary to furnish a medical certificate, many parents would fie tempted to send their children to school when ill as most people find it. difficult enough to clothe and find books for their children without the added cos’t of medical certificate. No prosecution can take place without the consent of the Board’s secretary who is an experienced and sympathetic officer.