While an Army Court of Inquiry is holding an investigation into the disaster at Norfolk, numerous senators are making a strong demand that all appropriations for army and navy dirigibles be stopped immediately.
Summer School progress
Matters at the "Summer Home" School, at Andersons Bay, which was quite recently instituted, seem to be progressing very satisfactorily. It is pretty widely known that the establishing of the school is for the combined purpose of the health and education of children, and that it has been set on foot as an experiment, which, so far, has proved eminently successful. The majority of the 50 children there have gained in weight, and the general health has been very good. There have been no cases of sickness, and everything is now in good going order. In response to a call made for voluntary subscriptions, the sum of £44 3s 1d has been received, but against that there is considerable expenditure. One item alone, that of eggs and milk for the two months’ experiment, amounts to £50. It is stated that commercial men and others have been very generous in providing articles of various descriptions, outside any donations they may have made. Each week two of the public schools make donations of vegetables, the result of circularising the State schools of the city and suburbs.
Servants among immigrants
By the Athenic, which leaves today (says our London correspondent, writing on January 12) 320 assisted or nominated third-class passengers will sail for New Zealand. Of these, 40 are domestic servants under the charge of a matron (Mrs Richards), and it is interesting to note that more than half of them come from various parts of Scotland, a few from the provinces of England, and the remainder from the London district. But the London list of the domestic servants discloses the fact that half of these again are of Scottish parentage. During the next seven weeks 2339 immigrants will sail for the dominion, the next steamer being the Pakeha, with 834 onboard. All these prospective settlers have friends or relatives in New Zealand, and have guaranteed accommodation and employment.
Cruelty stops rabbit bonus
A bonus of threepence per tail has resulted in the boys and even the girls at a country school outside Palmerston North (says the Manawatu Times) acquiring great skill in digging out rabbits. But the thoughtless and innate cruelty of some boys, who cut off the tails and released the bunnies in the hope of a second growth, has resulted in the withdrawal of the bonus. — ODT, 24.2.1922
