NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 23, 26 January 1912, Page 7

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Parliament House, not the Government Offices, was burned down. The lastnamed edifice is the biggest wooden bail ding in New Zealand. CONSTANT HEADER.—We can find no provision in past licensing elections for a voting paper submitting these issues: (1) “1 vote for increases in licenses”; (2) “I vote for redaction”; (3) “I vote that licenses remain unaltered. A section of the Act of 1393, subsequently repealed, provided for a vote being taken in the case of increased population on the following issues: (I) “I vote that the number of licenses in the district be increased”; (2) “I vote that the number of licenses in the district be decreased.” Under the Act of 1395 provision was made for a voting paper in this form; "T vote that the number of licenses continue”; (2) ‘‘l vote that the number of licenses be reduced”: (3) ‘T vote that no licenses be granted," A NEWCOMER.—The poem has 'been too long before the public to republish, j \ou can purchase the complete poems I for a shilling, or may copy the poem you mention at the public library, j MORRXN.—The North Island Main Line i and branches earns interest at the | rate of £4 13/6 per cent; the South ] Island Main Line and branches, £3 I 9/2 per cent; the Nelson Line, on which £404.630 has been expended, j only yields 17 11 per cent on the out-! t lay, and the Pioton line, on which the I expenditure has been £390.032, pays ! only 5/1 per cent. The whole of the i New Zealand railways last year paid , interest at the rate of £4 1/3 per! cent.