WELLINGTON.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2113, 12 February 1908, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

(Special to Times.), WELLINGTON, Feb. 11. Thoro was very little .business -on ’Chan-go to-day, and the only salo was -a parcel of Leyland O’Brien timber shares at £2 ss.

A shearer who has just finished a round of sheds in the Wairarapa says that his aggregate tally was just on 8000 sheep, and that his cheque would be a little over £BO. Including the holidays in -the period, this amount works out at about £5 -a week.

The Minister for Education has under consideration the question of remedying the grievances of teachers regarding- inequalities in salaries, p u-fcieulariy in .the case of sole teachers in cogntry schools, lie will submit proposals on the question to Parliament next session. The Do rough Council of Palmerston North has decided to commence an action against (the Palmerston Gas Company, to test the validity of the .agreement giving the' company a monopoly of the lighting service. Tho keener of the refreshment rooms at Kaitoke states that he took over tho rooms in May, 1900, there being (then in stock 37f dozen cups, and up to December last h? purchased 68 dozen cups. He estimates this total loss of cups in two and threemiarter years to have cost him £l6O 17d In addition to that, there has hoen a large loss in plates and Son, and Ewon, and goes home to gain departmental experience. S The .Education Department has beuun tho issue of wall sheets for New Zealand schools. The sued represent some of the most cna raoteristic of the N.Z. flora, repr ringed from ’photos by Mrs. Mann ts wife of “the Chief State Forester. They are on cards 12m x *0 n, and are eight in number. They m elude the ftaoulia, the Cetaa the Ranunculus Ruahme the Chanthua, Veronica, etc., and with each is sup plied an explanatory note.