LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15130, 26 January 1917, Page 7

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The following are the scores put up by the teams at the recent districtshoot which was held on the Putiki Range:—Linton G4o, P. and T. No. 1 G27, Wanganui No. 1 626, Linton No. 2 597, Marton 587, Wanganui Returned Soldiers 571, P. and T. No. 2 571, 11th Regiment 567, Wanganui E, No. 2 517, Feilding E.C. 497, P. and T. No. 3 453, Wanganui E.C. No. 3 386, 7th Regiment 371. “Work is plentiful in the country,” remarks Mr W T estbrooke, officer in charge of the Gisborne branch of the Labour Department in his December report. “Harvesting has now commenced, and the farmers report generally that there is a shortage of labour. The dairying industry is flourishing, plentiful rains having made the feed good all through the country, and there is every prospect of its being a record season.” Army cooking,''which is being subjected to much criticism, serves to display one of our national weaknesses that no time or experience seems able to correct. It was much the same—or a god deal worse—in the Crimean War, when the great French chef Soyer came to the rescue and began to organise the cooking and preparation of our Army’s food on more palatable lines. “But cooking, aptft from preparing the family meal in private homes, has never been a flourishing industry with ue,” observes a Loudon daily. “Whenever and w’herever possible we have relegated the kitchen tasks to foreigners, and given them a monopoly of hotel and restaurant management.” Says the Christchurch Times:—Mr F. Pirani has been a member of the Wanganui Edccation Board for twenyrone years, and chairman for ten years. He was in Christchurch on Tuesday, and, chatting of educational subjects, he said that he believed that W T anganui had better methods in this respect and obtained better results, than any other district in the Dominion. For one thing, the Wanganui Board had more technical schools than any other educational body in New Zealand. Its methods of giving agricultural instruction were elaborate, and, he was convinced, thorough. Under them youths, after passing through a two years’ course, were qualified to take charge of a farm. They were taught both theory and practice. The instruction covered a wide field, from camp cookery to horticulture and care of an orchard. The Wanganui Board has extensively adopted the Montessori principles of instructing infants, and Mr Pirani states that the results are astonishingly successful.