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Waipa Post, Volume XIX, Issue 1074, 7 April 1921, Page 4

The magistrate, -Mr H. A. Young, to-day visited the site of a recent motor car collision o,n the Hamilton Road, in the suburbs of Te Awamutu, at the request of counsel engaged in a lawsuit. The plaintiffs at law are Dalgety and Go., (represented by Mr Lily, of Auckland), who claim £157 6s from Karama Tamaki (Mr J. Oliphant) alleging that his careless driving caused the accident and damage. 6 A new railway carriage and wagon factory has been established by a large British engineering and shipbuilding .firm. This factory was originally erected during the war for the production of shells and guns, and it will now be used for the manufacture of all-steel railway carriages and wagons. Orders have already been received from many parts of the world. It is interesting to note that the first all-steel cars ever put on a railway were designed and built in Great Britain by British engineers. “Jews are never teetotallers. I have never heard of a Jew being drunk, nor of a temperance .society or Blue Ribbon Army in connection with the Jewish Church. We believe the Almighty has given us the good things to enjoy, and not to, abuse.” This interesting statement was made recently by the Rev. Gerald Friedlandfer minister of the Western District Synagogue, Bedford Square, before the justices of the St.’ James’s Division at Westminster. He supported an application by a restaurant proprietor for a license on the ground that the Jews are required by their religious laws to drink wine. Viscount Erleigh, son of the retiring Lord Chief Justice, was counsel for the applicant, and said that it was obligatory on diners of the orthodox Jewish faith to take "kosher” wine with their meals on Sabbath 'day and festivals. 'Except that the wine was prepared throughout for Jews, it did not differ from ordinary wines. The application was granted on the condition that only “kosher” wine was sold.

There is a suggestion that the time may come when intending teachers will be examined not only on the physical side, but as to their temperamental fitness for entering upon a career in which qualities of mind and temper and general habits are just as important as educational qualifications (says the Hospital). The conclusion is drawn from these experiments that teachers should be medically examined and treated as ' systematically as school children, and that the hygienic environment of the schools should come under very strict inspection. There is no doubt that much of the ill-health of teachers occurs after they have actively taken up work of their profession, and that it is due in a large measure to the sedentary nature of their occupation and to the stuffy conditions in which they have to work. A significant feature of the analyses, above recorded is the very low percentage- of lung trouble found among students at the age (between 18 and 21 years) when the expectancy is for tuberculosis, It would be valuable to discover whether the disease is markedly more prevalent among teachers after a few years of regular service. “A faithful friend is the medicine of life.” —Proverb. Wouldn’t you gladly change from experimenting with untried cough and cold remedies if you knew of one that was prompt and certain? Baxter’s Lung Preserver is a friend, indeed, when you are troubled with cough, cold, or sore throat. Besides, “ Baxter’s ” is more than a mere cold cure. It possesses invaluable tonic properties which re-build and invigorate run-down systems and jaded constitutions. Act at once! Get a large 2s 6d bottle from your chemist or grocer to-day. 5 *