LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17554, 8 November 1928, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The following appointments, of teachers were authorised by the Auckland Education Board yesterday:— Assistant mistresses: Miss D. B. McLean, Goodwood; Miss I. M. Grainger, Pokeno Side. Notification of the appointment in March of dental nu.'S'?s for Te Aroha, Matamata and Wattii was received from the Education Department by fhe Auckland Education Board yesterday. "It is like Mrs Beaton's advice about cooking a hare—procure the hare first," observed Mr A. H. Warins at a conference of drainage boards to-day, in stressing the need for amassing funds before entering into an amalgamation scheme. A verdict of not guilty was returned in the Supreme Court by the jun in the case of Frederick William Webster, charged with the theft of £1498 from the Whang.irci Co-oper-ative building society's affairs had been and counsel commented at some length on the lax manner in which the building society affairs had been conducted.

The damage caused to the pumping plant of the Waikato Hospital at the time of the diversion of the river at Arapuni was mentioned at the meeting of the Hospital Board to-day. On the chairman's proposal it was decided that the Government should grant compensation, as it had done to Hie Hamilton Borough Council. A member: "If you don't get in before next Wednesday, you haven't a hope." (Laughter).

Following further correspondence from the Education Department, the Auckland Education Board decided yesterday to comply with the former's proposals in Fcgard to the selecti'on of probationer teachers for the ensuing year. These provide that probationers should be selected on a basis of academic attainments, the Department holding that such proposals provide also for consideration of personality and fitness for the profession, and thus carry out what is required by regulation. The board considered it should be permitted to consider nil applicants who had passed matriculation.

"Personally I haven't the slightest objection to employing a Chinaman," said Mr Campbell Johnstone, chairman of the Waikalo Hospital Board, in proposing at to-day's meeting that some of the land below the hospiinl should be cultivated as a vegetanlc garden. "We buy vegetables from the Chinamen," he added, and he could not see that it was any different in principle to employ a Chinese gardener. Whatever , gardener was employed, he would probably produce more value than the amount paid to him in wages. Mr F. Potts said he would support the proposal for a vegetable garden, but he was against emploving a Chinese. He never bought vegetables or fruit from a Chinese. The board referred the proposal to the House and Finance Committee for consideration.