News From All Sources

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 128, 25 May 1932, Page 7

News From All Sources

School Starting Age The Wellington Education Board has been advised officially that in accordance with the recent economy decisions, no child under the age of six years may now be enrolled as a pupil in any public school. This restriction is on new applications only, and no action is being taken regarding children under six who are already at school. Wage Cuts Issue The Auckland Hospital Board does not intend, in the meantime, to follow the lead of the Government in applying further wage and salary reductions. The board will make no reductions in salaries and wages under £225, and will defer consideration of dealing with the higher Salaries until a meeting of the Hospital Boards Conference on June 9. Freak of Nature A Wliangaroi man who has just returned from a business trip through the far north camo upon a freak of nature at Kaeo. The curiosity was a tame eel, whose benefactor is a farmer. The visitor witnessed the feeding of the fish, a four-footer, which emerged from the weeds and took scraps from the man’s hands. Afterwards it played about tranquilly until the stranger leaned over the pool. At once the eel disappeared into the cloudy bank. Equality of Sacrifice They were talking about equality of sacrifice at the Auckland Provincial Farmers’ Union conference recently. Some of the farmers said that they had sacrificed everything. They had little to call their own. Mr S. N. Ziman considered that if sacrifices were to be demanded they should be made by every section of the community. “The sacrifice idea has got as far as the House,” he added. “One honourable member is said to have stated that in this time of stress we should all contribute to the common weal. We should all sacrifice. For his part, he was prepared to sacrifice his principles.” Mortgagors’ Commission The Hawke’s Bay Mortgagors’ Liabilities Adjustment Commission held its first sitting in Napier at the end of last week. The Commission consists of R. S. Chadwick (Dannevirke), Mr M. Greenwood (Hastings) and Mi" J. H. Joll (Havelock North). A large number of applications have been referred to the commission for its recommendations from all parts of the district —extending from Wairoa to Woodville —and it seems evident that the commission’s time will be fully occupied at the various centres at which it holds its sittings. Already over 60 applications have been referred to the commission from various parts of the district.

Motor Cyclist Injured While coming to Dannevirke from the south on Sunday morning on a motor cycle, Mr Arthur Studd of Palmerston North, who had with him as a passenger on the pillion Miss T. Watt, of Eketahuna, met with an accident near Freeland’s road, a few miles from Dannevirke. A tyre of the motor cycle blew out, and the rider’s left foot was injured by the back wheel. He was taken to the Dannevirke Hospital by a passing car, where it was subsequently ascertained that though the foot was rather badly injured, no bones were broken. He also had slight head injuries. Miss Watt was also brought in to the hospital, but her injuries were minoi' and she was able to return to her home in the afternoon. Study New Zealand We can take the plate around on Sunday at church, and think we are better than the concrete board workers, but we can only grow rich by gambling, comments a writei’ in the “Christchurch Star.” We might not give it that name. We can examine any rich man’s estate and we will find that somewhere he made what he termed a lucky deal. Seldom does an engineer die rich. The man who saw the picture, who had it in his mind before the thing was put on paper, that man or that class of man, seldom dies rich. Look at New Zealand. Was there ever a place where God’s creatures, either man, bird or beast, had better opportunities? What’s wrong ben? It is that we won’t look at I :z '7 Zealand. The American picture’s, the American cars, the football field anything but New Zealand’s welfare. It’s a fine sight to see our playing fields on Saturday afternoons, but we have got to devote some time to the study of New Zealand.