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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 101, 29 April 1913, Page 5

In Wellington and suburbs there ia absolutely no work for navvies at present. Fifty men- were put off in a batch- by. the Corporation when the Bell Road Keservflir was completed, lately. The secretary "of the General'" labourers' 'Union states that he would have no difficulty in finding 50 men at a day's notice if they were required. The supply of builders' labourers ie also very plentiful, aad" 30 men "could easily-.be,found at a few hours' notice. '-little building is being-done -in; the; city. , ;-Ricfclayers, '.carpenters, and stonemasons are inore-hap-pily placed, for they have either left Wellington permanently, "of nave' found work in the country. Nothing is; in sight to give these unemployed men work, except the 'prospect of the Parliament Buildings, contract being let before the winter sets in.-'-:-.) =-'■"■ ''■■ " '■-'• 'The. Sanger .of level- crossings - is-'to receive attention at the hands of the Martpn Borough Council at its i&exs meeting, when, the following' motion "will be moved:—'TThat.the, attention of the Government be directed to the" grave danger to the public arising from the inadequate njeans of prptection at level railway crossings/ and that this Council ask for the co-operation .of/all Boroughs in the Dominion to make determined: efforts to insist that all'prominent crossings be provided with gates or other means whereby this increasing danger to the public may be averted." •, At.;..Devonport- to-nighfc; '/the., foreehore will be illuminated from Ve'ntnor House to the end of Stanley. Point, one of ttie features being the outlining' of Mount Victoria with over 400 lights. An" official bulletin issued' by the Duchess of Connaught's medical .advisers states that the.symptoms of obstruction have reeufred, and a further operation is necessary. . ■ . ' "Early to bed, early to rice, keeps a nian healthy, happy, wise." So does "Gamp" Coffee.—(Ad.) , . ■■ - .