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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LX, Issue 9345, 16 April 1909, Page 3

HERE AND THERE.

. Expectation that wireless telegraphy as applied to ships would receive a distinct impetus from the experience of tlie Republic has been fulfilled. Several companies which have the system installed ou some of their MBJL passenger boats propose to extend it to other steamers. Other compauies whiah have not hitherto made use or wireless contemplate introducing it. It is officially announced by the White Star Line that, owing to the unqualified success achieved in the trials of the Laureutic, which is propelled by a combination system of reciprocating aud turbine engines, the two giant liners Olympia and Titanic, of forty-live thousand tons each, will be equipped with a similar system of combined engines. Those liners will be the largest liners in the world. The Auckland Herald's correspondent at Suva writes that there is au abundance of food supply for rho natives. Amoug many signs of prosperity iv Fiji lie notes that new settlers arrive by every boat, aud that business men are taking up sections to settle their tamilies upou. There is abundauce of fish on sale. A Japanese crew is doing a good deal of business in tiiis direction. P. E. M. writes thus to Sydney Morning Herald:—Many a housewife » heartily endorses Ida Embee's declaration that the perpetual round of dishwashing is nerve-destroying and likely to incite a woman to suicide. But why not relegate this unpleasant but necessary task to the proper persons—■ viz., the male members of the household—when wo liavo the best authority for proving it should be men's work and not womau'sV The Bible says: 11 1 will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, w ping it aud turning it upside down." (11. Kings, 21st chapter, 18th verse.) What can be plainer than that?

The list of trades aud professions to be demonstrated at the " Wliat-to-do-with-our-GirJs" Exhibition next month grows apace (writes au Australiau Jadj ), ami the lalest to be added to the v timber is the potter's trade. A large linn has promised to sefc up a beunh where a woman potter will ply this aucieut trade. Another douioustratiOD that is sure to attract much atteutiou will be the cauuiug . and bottliug of fruit by Mrs Corrie, that expert veterau, who used to be a i'requeut exhibitor of bottled fruit, but wou so liuiuv prizes that at last she was made a judge iv order to give other wonipu a chauce. Otlier displays that have been arranged include a hygiene ileiuonstratiou by Dr Grace Uoelke, a physical culture display by Miss Lack, a dog parade by the Ladies' Kennel Club, life-saving by the Swimming Association, and ambulance work by botli the adults and the children's brigades. There does not appear to be one method of earning a livelihood which will not be demonstrated at the Exhibition, and those girls who are undecided in their choice of a career should find (the writer thinks) the Exhibition exceedingly helpful in making up their minds. (Jould that great humanitarian and nation-builder, the late Right Hon. Richard John seddou, have looked hi upon a gathering held at Christchurch rt'ceurly, how rejoiced his heart would have been ! The -gathering was absolutely unique in its way, being composed of two hundred and fifty babies, with their mothers iv attendance, who had first seen the light in the local St. Helens Hospital, one of those institutions for which many a, New Zealand mother lias had cause to bless the late statesman. Nearly five hundred babies have been born under the St. Helens root'iu about two years, of which only six have died—v splendid record. Ten nurses have also been put through a course of training in midwifery, aud their services have been available to many women unable ' to nmke direct use of the facilities and conveniences of the Hospital. The before-mentioned garheriug was held at the St. Helens Hospital, and truly it must have been a bonny sight to see all rhrvie Jitele ones, described as remarkably vigorous and healthy young New Zealauders, largely the result tliis latter of the instruction given to the mothers by the staff in the care aud nursing ot their babies.