DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2543, 2 July 1909, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

NEW ZEALAND STATISTICS. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, July 1- _ The Customs revenue, for June is £38,705, against £47,234 for the same’ month last year. The deaths in Auckland for the six months ending June 30 were 100 less than for the same period last year. WELLINGTON, July 1. The local Customs revenue to the end of June was £336,296. falling oif £56,023. LICENSES IN THE KING COUNTRY. INVERCAItu iXiij. July 1. At- a mass meeting last night- to celebrate the third anniversary of the carrying of no-license in Irivercnrgill. the following resolution was carried unanimously: “That this meeting expresses its satisfaction at the promise made by the Government- to tak- aciion in the Supreme Court with a view of quashing licenses recently granted in the King Country.” A AIEDICAL STATEMENT. NAPIER, July 1. During the hearing of a case in the Supreme Court to-day, xo was stated by medical witnesses, in connection with the death of a.patient from puerperal septicaemia, that there had been an abnormal number of septic cases during the last twelve months throughout New Zealand, and in many cases it was impossible to tell how they had been caused. RAINFALL IN HAWKE’S BAY. Returns show that the rainfall in a large part of Hawke’s Bay for Juno was extremely light, the fall in Hastings being the lowest on record for many years. EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE. AUCKLAND, July 1. At the Educational Conference this morning. Air. C. J. Parr, chairman of the Board of Education, said that members of the Board did not wish it to go forth that they concurred in the resolution passed that the syllabus was an excellent one. The question as to what are compulsory subjects and what are not was so complicated that it seemed that it was time that the whole syllabus went into the melting pot. After disastrous results in the sixth standard education in commercial geography, the Board intended to have that subject properly taught in future. A motion was carried, with two dissentients, that the principle of the right of teachers tc make reasonable selection from the syllabus is not adequately recognised in this district.