LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21601, 11 December 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Teaching Posts At a meeting of the Auckland Education Board yesterday Misses C. Jefferson and E. C. Fleury were apponted as senior assistant mistresses to the Hamilton East and Forest Lake Schools respectively. Armed Forces Appeals The No. 2 Armed Forces Appeal Board is to sit at Te Awamutu on Monday and Tuesday, December 15 and 16, and at Hamilton on Wednesday, December 17.

Manpower Committee The only fixtures made for the Hamilton District Manpower Committee for December are for sittings at Taumarunui on Wednesday, December 17, and at Te Kuiti and Otorohanga on Thursday, December 18. Christmas Cheer

The annual grant of £25 to the Christmas Cheer Fund was approved at the monthly meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board today. It was decided to thank the Sunshine League for a gift of £ls toward the fimd.

Distribution of Posters The Women’s War Service Auxiliary has undertaken the distribution of 1600 posters in continuation of the “Don’t Talk” campaign. A fortnight ago nearly a thousand posters were distributed in Hamilton. Members able to assist in this campaign are asked to report tomorrow morning. Ergot Collection At the request of the Department of Agriculture, the Auckland Education Board decided yesterday to co-operate in the drive for the collection of ergot for Great Britain. A letter from the Education Department, which stressed the value oi ergot in checking bleeding, asked the board to assist by encouraging child- • ren to collect it. Patients at Hospital

The daily average number of patients in the Waikato Hospital during November was 393.5 and the number of operations performed was 187, according to a report presented at the monthly meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board today. At the Rotorua Hospital the daily average was 129.6, and 71 operations were performed. Refused Only Once

In paying a tribute to Mrs Marshall Thompson at the recital given by her pupils in Hamilton last night, Mr F. Findlay said that performers in Waikato were very good in giving their services on behalf of good causes. “In 20 years,” said Mr F. Findlay, “I have only been refused once when asking for assistance from performers. On that occasion the lady had an overpowering sense of Her own importance!” Aim of Secondary Education “There is general agreement among educational authorities that I secondary education for the first few | years should be on a broad basis,” said Mr H. D. Tait, principal of the Hamilton High School, in his annual report. “Our aim is to foster an allround efficiency in our scholars. Then when their school days are at an end they are ready to engage more rapidly and more successfully in any special work or profession to which they may direct their energies.”

Pipe Smokers Disappearing “The pipe smoker of bygone days is slowly disappearing, and the young generation does not as readily take to 1 the pipe,” states the annual report of the National Tobacco Company, Port Ahuriri. “The drop in the sales of pipe tobacco, compared with, say, 15 years ago, is remarkable, and this applies in particular to the heavier kinds. However, the downward tendency seems to have come to a stop and business is brightening again.” The report adds that the company’s sales of cigarettes broke all records, being an increase of 80 per cent on last year’s turnover. Place of Art in Life

“Drawing affords the pupil a valuable means of self expression,” said Mr H. D. Tait, Principal of the Hamilton High School, in his annual report. “The classes introduced three years ago have proved a complete success, a high standard of work being attained. The machine has taken from us the initiative and has somewhat stifled the instinct to do things. We no longer feel the urge to beautify our surroundings by our own artistic efforts. This is a greater loss than at first appears, for a complete mind must express itself in word, in action, in song and in creating beauty. Art is one of the most permanent manifestations of man’s existence on earth, but how many of us today develop our latent gifts of creative imagination?”