NEWS IN BRIEF.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17343, 16 July 1924, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Work on tbc new glasshouse in Lhe Public Gardens is being pu&ircu xupidly ahead and its completion is expected m about ten days. The body of John A. Cameron, of Bendigo, who has been missing since January last, was found 25G0 feet up the Otago Central mountains by his brother. A disease, called Plasmoatara Yiticola. ri spreading rapidly in t l © vineyards in the Middle Rhine and threatens to ruin the whole crop. The disease has ario appeared at Moselle and Saar, but is less disturbing. The presence o- several a recent Smu .Feiaers aboard the Baradine on her voyage from England to Adelaide, and their propaganda meetings, greatly annoyed the other passengeis. who consider that their conduct was utterly disloyal. The ringleader is said to be a nominated civilian. Speaking at the Imperial Education Conference ot ciie League of Empire in London, the iSew Zealand delegate praised the work of the women’s training colleges in England, and suggested that the heads and assistants in some cases should be given a year’s leave or absence to teach in the dominions. The Council of Agriculture in Wellington to-day. adopted the following resolution : That the present educational facilities for the persons desiring to engage in rural occupations a.ro hopelessly inadequate and that it ih desirable that an investigation of tiie matter be undertaken by a special Commission.” Before this motion was pub the council heard an address Tv the Professor in Agriculture at Victoria College, in which lie said that, other countries were streets ahead of New Zealand in agricultural education.