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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1912, Page 6

Polling in connection with the election of a successor to tho Hon. T. Mackenzie (now High Commissioner) aB member of Parliament for Egmont will take plnco this day week, 17th September. The candidates arc Mr. C A. Wilkinson (Government) and Mr. D. L. A. Astbuty (Opposition). It is anticipated that the area of laud selected by the Labour Department at Taitville for workm' homes will soon be ready for balloting. Several other blocks of land about Wellington are, it is understood, under offer to tho department, and an inspection of these is to be made. At a meeting of the Brooklyn Ratepayers Association last evening, the secretary (Mr. C. B. Almao) was requested to write to the member for tha dißtnct (Mr. A. H. Hindmarsh), asking him to imako representation tb the Postma&ter.General in regard to providing Brooklyn with a slot telephone cabinet. The Mayor of Petone (Mr. J. W. M'Ewan) presided over a well-attended meeting held in Petono last night of friends of Mr. C. Gray, who for many years past has always readily given his services as an entertainer for any religious, charitable, or other worthy object. Mri Gray intends to leave for Australia shortly, and the meeting decided to give . him a send-off concert, for which committees wore Bet up to make arrangements. .The Upper Hutt Town Board elections are to take place on Wednesday, 18th September. Mobbm. Pearson, Shaw, and Webb have expressed their intention of contesting the election, and are m favour of the proposal to borrow the £10,265 for the installation of a water service in tho town, the poll for which is to be taken on the same day as the election. Messrs. Brown, Davis, and Wilkie will also, it is understood, contest the election. They are opposed to the water supply Bcheme. A contract for building the reinforced concrete bridge over die Moonshine crossing, Hutt River, at the Upper Hutt, has been signed by Messrs. Syken and Shaw, who havo made a Btart with the work. The first concrete pile was cast to-day. Mr. Laing-Meason, C.E.. who designed the bridge for the HtUt County Council, has appointed Mr. Walter Brown clerk of works. The council has obtained a loan of £1350 from the State Guaranteed Advances Department for the purposes of the bridgp. The London correspondent of The Post writes that the will has been proved of the late Mr. Robert Stains, formerly of Wellington* and agent in London of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, who died on the 3rd May at Tho Avenue. Upper Norwood. 'The gross value of the property amounts to £80,939, of which the net personalty has been sworn at £80,767. lie left his residence and furniture to his daughters, Gertrude Jenny and Ida Winifred; £11,000 to his son, Leonard Robert; various other legacies and tho residue of his property in England to his daughters. Gertrude Jenny, Ida Winifred, and Ethel Mary Marshall; and the residue of his property in New Zealand to his three daughters and son. Nine tenders were received by Mr. j James Bennie, architect, for an extensive addition to the Hotel Cecil, and that of Messrs. Mover and IlUngworth* at a little over £3500 ? was accepted. The > specifications provide for the replacing of the present wooden portion of the hotel at the corner of Charlottestreet and Lambton-quay by an addition of three stories in brick, with reinforced concrete floors, the whole work to be completed in about six months' time. The design of the present brick part of the hotel will be followed. The new portion of the building will contain twenty rooms 4 including a bar. the floor of which is to be tiled. The addition will bo 50 feet by 26 -feet, and will have a t wide ornamental balcony. Provision is also mado for a basement, to be lighted from the pavement, for the storage of liquor. Mr. Ernest de Lautour writes from Waitahanui, Lake Taupo, to the Hawkoß Bay Herald, to protest against " a, gross injustice upon overseas anglers— namely, the proposed increase of the £1 license to £0. A more arbitrary proceeding can hardly be conceived, and should it become a reality, nothing is better oalculated to destroy the interest taken in our rivers by overseas fishermen. For it is a great mistake to imagine that there is no fishing in other countries to equal that of New Zealand. Is the holder of the £5 license, after coming 12,000 miles to fish, and often to face the discomforts, and sometimes the horrors of some isolated sleeping place, to have his happiness and amusement win In in the open air destroyed by the encroachment of the 5s 'chucker' of a spoon? The license is quite enough to pay for this eventuality 4 ahd it is a pity it could not bo made universal and all 5s licenses don« away with, excepting in tho ckso of a perch fisher." Mr. B. R. Gardener, Mayor ot Levin, is coming forward as a very strong advocate of the claims of the Weraroa State Farm as an ideal Bite for the proposed agricultural college. In addition to the advantages enumerated in an article on tho same subject in Saturday^ Post he declares that the social lifo of the students would be well-catered for—far better than in the larger towns. In an in* terview published in the Horowhenua Chronicle, he reminds people of the fact that the State Farm is bounded on one Bide by the Horowhenua Lake of over 1500 acres of water, and on the other by the beautiful Papaitonga Lake. Tho eea beach was within three miles of tho farm. There was plenty of good fishing to bo had in the neighbourhood also. A better site could not be found for the agricultural college, and it would bo sheer waste of money to look elsewhere. He would like members of Parliament to visit Levin and see the farm. When a possible expenditure of £100,000 was involved, it was the duty of each member to make himself acquainted with the roa•sons why the college should bo established on ft site so admirably adapted for it. In the Marlborough Sounds the motor launch corresponds to the horse in the backblocks, and the same may be Bald of the Kainara waters and some other parta of the worth. But farmers who own boats find themselves hampered by Government regulations that the horse user knows nothing about. The question was debated at the recent Fariuom' Conference, when it was pointed out that many of the regulations relating to private launches not plying for hire were unnecessarily restrictive, and .particularly a hardship to Sounds sutlers, whose launches were their iinly means of locomotion. The Govornment wan asked to amend thi\ regulation. The Secretary of the Marino Department has Bent a reply to the effect that there appears to be some misunderstanding as regards private launches which do not carry passengers or freight for hire. The law allows such launches up to six tons register to run without havfng to be surveyed or carrying any certificated •officers. They must, however, be. provided with two life-buoys and a lifebelt for each person on board. "A launch up to the tonnage mentioned can. thorctorc carry the owner and his family and solvents, and any other person, without having to be Burveyen, and without having to carry certificated officers, provided no charge is made on ilip«pni«oT»s carried." Mr. J. Lmna*, Secretary for labour, returned from M'arlboiough lasi nighu