LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXI, Issue 16604, 27 April 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The 6hooting season opens on Ma« Ist. Information relative to thi san. pears in our advertising columns. A cushion and gift tea in aid of th« wounded Belgians, will be held on Wed nesday, May 3rd, from 2 to 5 p.m. at Christ Church Sunday SchoolT The Telegraph Department notifi*, thai cable messages for Portugal m'av iiow be accepted in any of the authoris. Ed codes.

.A bronze medal has been awarded by the Royal Humane Society to MT R. W. Thomas, of Wanganui, for say ing Tie life of a girl at the Castlecljff beach. ;

k A meeting of the Technical College committee will be held next Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. This will p re . cede the meeting iof householders called for 8 o'clock on the same even ing. v "•;

Victorian country printers have se. cured an award providing a 42-hour week for linotype, monoline and baro. type operators, and a 48 hour week for other workers; Machine, operators' wages were increased from £} ?.s. to £3 10s. per week —other work, from £2 Bs. toj£2 14s. per week

Cn Anzac Day iat Cooks' Gardens an attraction was a large marquee in which afternoon tea was served under tKe ulrection of Mrs. J. M. Gibson the object being to secure founds to re!l place the loss of the New Zealand Sta. tionary HospitaPs equipment at Salonika. -An amount of £101 Us 3d has been collected, but the full total will lie announced later when a number of promised contributions ore received.

Mrs Hastings Moore has received V letter from her son, Orderly-Sergeantl L. Moore, of the West Coast Division, who was- wounded: at the Dardanelles,' and is now in England, stating that he is making excellent progress, and hopes soon to be quite recovered. Mrs Moore has also received a letter from ; the riurse who attended her son, in which she states* that he had a verj close xail, and it was only his indomit able piucK that pulled him through.

A rider disqualified at the last raoj.' meeting at Rokitika applied to the ■ Weatlarid Racing Club on Friday for the removal of his disqualification (sayi the Greymouth "Star.") He mention,, ed that he had offered to enlist in the 16th Reinforcements, but had not yet passed the medical exammatiop. The members briefly discussed the matter, and while it was resolved not to take any action on the application, the feeling seemed to be general that if'theapplicant made a good showing with the discharge of his military duties the subject might be reopened at a later date.

TTnder date Feb. 21 a well-known, London daily published as a leadingarticle the following reply to "German Bluster," which, for brevity, would take "a lot of beating:—When* General Smuts, aged forty-five, one ofs the conquerors of German South-" West Africa, has annexed German East Africa the Huns will be shorn of the last of their expensively made Colonies. The German Press says that Germany will get them back, and i the Congo as well,' in exchange for Belgium. Well, Britain, Prance, Rub. ' sia, Italy, Canada, and New Zealand, not to forget gallant little Belgian herself (and the British Fleet into the*bargain) will have something to' say on that point. Just now—and permanently, too—these German Colonies are rid of their Prussian oppressors. We are in possession, and; everyone, except the Hun, is pleased.' with the change. Sea' power counts.'

The "Dominion" announces the" death of Miss Ella Hurley, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Hutley of 102, Pirie Street, Wellington. Heart failure was the eause~of death,; but. for some weeks past it had been remarked that her general health'; seemed to have greatly improved. The end, came very peacefully. Miss Hur- i ly.had for years bsen identified with ; useful work in the Girls' Realm : Guild, St. Mark's choir, the Royal. Wellington. Choral Society, and ever i since the besrinnirg of the 'war she ; *ad been a willing helper. For yean she was troubled with a weakness of ■ •her heart, but bravely battled against j it, and always"exhibited a sunny and j lovable disposition. Her father, who j has been for several months .away from home on Boy Scout business,^ i turned for his Easter holidays, only i f^ve ho^irs before his daughter pass- 1 ed away. The parents brought their daughter's remains by train to Waa-^ ganui for private interment Ire th# ? new rpjnetery. The Rev. Reeve coy 1 dv;cted the service. *

Relating her impressions of her red- „ dence in Canada as one of the excbang- > ed New Zealand teachers under tfo i "Hands Across the Sea" movement, } recently inaugurated between the Can* ' adian arid New Zealand Education D* > partments, M)6s Swap, of Temuk», made some interesting comments to \ the "Leader." She said there wer« .. several outstanding differences between -. a school teacher's life in Canada and ,' New_Zealand. Owing to the continud . political changes of parties in Canada * xhere was no permanent" standard Bet i up to which a teacher must attain be- % fore being appointed to a position. • When one side was deposed from offi<* ■ the head of the university and training college was changed, and a supporter , cf the new party in power was appoiu* • ted. The salary of the teacher wa* paid party by the Government or To« " School Board, and partly by the peop» direct. The .'pay of the teacher depended on the/crop, and of course var* ; led very much, as one teacher fwß London, who went out to Vancouver ' under the, " Hands Across the Sea movement, found to her cost. I*lll young lady exchanged places with » . Canadian teacher. In London the-e** ary was £104,' but it was a sure amount. The teacher knew that at tw end of evry month her pay was forM* I coming. The salary of tbe lady WJ» 1' whom she exchanged places was nofflj- j nally considerably more tlian that, b« ; the crops that season turned out a iauure and the teacher's money was »°* available. Some of the townsmen to» the matter up and a public subscription was raised, and the young IBo* received part of her salary. ■,