At present the various government departments are in session in the city taking council how best to promote objects of public concern and carry out desired reforms. Among the decisions made are the following:—that Industrial development be used strengthen the industrial schools for the poor; that a public hospital be established and that the site of the Reconstruction Bureau be used as its home; that a woman's relief club be set up for helping women harshly oppressed inthe homes of certain mothers-in-law and that where neces sary women be enabled to learn a trade and earn money for their own living; that a suitable home for professional beggars be opened.
June 6 is known as Teachers Day. This year a petition from the group was sent to the government bodies in seston asking that a larger grant be given from public funds to primary schools. That the Central Govern ment he petitioned to. allow those portions of the Wine Tax now remitted to be spent locally in improving education and giving a more equitable salary to the junior teachers.
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