Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 19 May 1910, Page 779

Intercolonial

A private cablegram received in Auckland on Monday announces the death at Nauheim (Germany), from heart disease, of Mr. F. E. Baume, KG., member for Auckland East. The Corinthic, from London, brought 236 immigrants. The majority are women, 16 of whom have come to join their husbands. Assisteds number 77, of whom 51 were nominated by relatives in the Dominion, and 26 were approved by the High Commissioner. Tenders are to be invited at once for the installation of a wireless telegraphy system in New Zealand on tnt, lines indicated by the Prime Minister in his Winton speech for the erection of two stations of high power and three lower-power stations. The Prime Minister is of the opinion that, if suitable offers are i obtained, the whole scheme ought to be working within twelve months. / A rise in §& price of certain classes of building timber (says the Wellington correspondent of the Otago Daily limes) is reported from country districts. Selected heart or totara is now quoted in provincial towns of the North Island at 22s 4d per 100 ft; building heart, 20s 4d; rough heart, 14s 4d. v The Wellington prices are 21s 3d, 19s 3d and 14s respectively. The rise is about 2s all round The lower rate in, Wellington is attributed to the competition ot jarrah. The Auckland sawmillers have put up the price of kauri by 2s per 100 ft, and of totara by Is 9d per 100 ft. m In remarking upon the rapid expansion of the dairying industry in Auckland, the annual report of the Chief Inspector of Schools contains a statement conveying a general idea of the bearing and probable influence of dairying on the lives of the pupils The details were —Roll number of classes Standard IV. to Standard VII., 38 pupils: number ot milkers (same classes), 18 pupils; average number of cows milk per child, six cows; average distance from school two miles; average time of starting work, 5 a.m.; average time of finishing work, 7.15 p.m. Seventeen of the eighteen milkers were males. The largest number of cows milked by one child was nine and the smallest two. One bov of 10 years milked eight cows and walked two and a half miles two and from school respectively. It was remarked that attention to this deplorable evil had already been drawn and it was thought that the ill-effects from the teachers' point of view were due as much to the,want of sufficient sleep as to the fatigue that must often ensue from such continuous unvaried exertion.