Every 12 months the teachers under the defendant board have their work reviewed, and according to the favourableness or otherwise of the report the contract is continued.
This, it is held, is an infringement of a certain provision of the act.
• An interesting process may be seen by visitors to the Government Experimental Station at Waerenga, in the Auckland province, where there has been installed a complete plant for the preparation of wattle bark in the disintegrated form in which it is used for the purposes of industry and commerce.
The disintegrating machine is worked by an engine, the fuel used being, appropriately enough, also wattle.
At Waerenga there is a large quantity of this tree, it having originally been planted there by the Government some 14 years ago, whilst crops are continually being taken off it.
The trees are cut down, and the bark skinned, a fresh crop coming up in place of those trees removed.
The bark is put in bundles and taken into the sheds, and when thoroughly dry throughout it is disintegrated and sold to tanners.
There are wallabies and opossums on Rangitoto Island, in Auckland Harbour, and it is becoming fairly popular as a shooting ground.
• On a recent Sunday a man was assisting the caretaker to clean fish on the beach opposite the caretaker's camp, when a bullet struck the box on which he was resting, and penetrated the box and his leg at the knee.
The presumption was that it was a spent bullet from a service rifle.
The caretaker went looking for the marksman, but though he heard shots in the distance he was unable to see the offenders.
The Devonport Borough Council has decided to erect notices on the island prohibiting the use of firearms on account of the danger to picnickers.
A committee was authorised to frame by-laws to govern the conduct of visitors on the island.
• A young Chinese hailing from Dunedin, and who has been studying dentistry in England returned to New Zealand by the Corinthic.
He went through a full course of training at Home, and is now a duly qualified dentist.
