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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 277, 20 November 1913, Page 4

The following is Mr. D. C. Bates' i weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 ] a-m. this day:"The Indications are for j variable and moderate breezes, but moderate' southerly prevailing and veering by east to north, then freshen- ] ing. Mild and hazy conditions, with j increasing haze and c'.ouiiiaes.s. Baro- 1 tiic-ter falling alter about 24 hours.' Tides pood, sea moderate." i A police raid, nniler tile direction of Senior-Scrgt. Hutledge. was made about J '.t.lo ji.m. yesterday on a greengrocers'! shop in Alexandra Street, occupied by j William and -Mabel Wilkinson. Three i men an.i a woman, in adition to the tenants, were found on the premises, two of the. men being occupied in drinking at the time Serpt. Hutledge and S-ergt. j Rock entered the premises. A number of bottles of gin and whisky were also found en the premises and taken possession of. Consequent on the raid, five informations have been issued against persons found in the place. A hold-up on the wharf during unloading operations on tiie Ngapuhi at Taulanixa or. Friday caused some -amusement. A swarm of bees, finding no resting place, endeavoured to settle in the [ spot where the cargo was being loaded lon the wharf from the hold, much to the consternation and diseomforiure of ! the hands encaged in handling the cargo. i A local carrier essayed t/e task of overcoming the trouble with water from a kerosene tin, but retired with a wound on the thumb from the tin. with the bees still in possession. Finally the harbourmaster settled the difficulty by means of a hose. It '-.- no-, only in :be old-world i-;: : .a3 that housfis bold morn people than lucy were built for. ■"You'll eomptimrs find two, three, or even four families in one house,"' .-:iid Mr. (.' ,-v.ir.in.error., who is reprf'iciiting a number o' unions before the I Cc; of Living Inquiry in i-ydney. One of Mr. Conningtnn's r*"itncssis«i said that 'V.-c tenants of certain tbree-roomo-and-kitchrn cottages in Annandale generally •it'iir-; line rooriT. As :i rule they charged i-l vi .">/ for it. "It ebon's a dread:u! I ihortaffe." his Honor. "I on n't ! iinderu-uod -. Rents are going up; '.uigrs are going up. Why don't theue I people put their wagcii int-o houses?" ll* mia.ht. be healthier, Mr. Connington U"?£;c-:od. if people were allowed to I V'iu-.h tents in the frtrocts or parks, instead of being bundled together as they j were. Mr. Eolin, representing the Employers' Federation, said he understood that the number of new houses did not -amount to 40 per cent of the marriages, there had been so many of recent yeans. "The result." said 'Mr. Connington, 'is that married people have to be acrommodated in the old houses." Anot'Ver of 'his witnesses thought the reason way working people <J:n "not build was the bijrh price of land. Mr. Po!;n susgeeted that there really was not cnoiiE'h capital available for the vvi-. nf the whole country. Among the men Woo have turned out and are assisting in the handling of cargo at Wellington are quite a hrsre number of very wpahhy mn.n from different parts of the North Island. One man remarked that thr hardest work he had ever done before taking up the r.r.sitirrn of a wharf labourer vr-as to row in the Oxford crfw when h< , was at the "niversity. The (business of the Police Court consisted of dealing with one female statutory first offender for drunkenness, who was fined five sbjUiaga.

One of the last things it -would be supposed the present strike would affect are the fish in the sea. and certainly no one would imagine that an industrial struggle on hind would make white-bait more difficult to catch. A Wanganui Maori tried to impress upon a pakeha i householder a day or two ago, however, I that this was so, though it is to be I feared the p-akeha merely regarded it as additional evidence of the Maori's fondness for driving a bargain. Asking Henare for a. pint of whitebait, he was staggered to be told thut the price was : two shillings. "Oh, come now," he said, ' "that is very dear; why it was cheaper ■ than that a day or two ago." "Oh, yes,' , was Henare's characteristic reply, "but, py korry, te strike he make him werry expensive." The inquest on the body of the child Alien Edzar Waugh, aged fourteen mcnt*>a, ivlio was drowned in Lake Waikare on Monday, was held at Matahura yesterday, before Mr. E. J. Farrell, Acting-Coroner, and a jury of four. Tie evidence outlined at the inquest was to ' the effect that the deceased was out with an elder 'brother. who returned home stating that his brother was lost, and must be drowned, as he could not find him. The child's parents at once rushed to the lake, and . found deceased lying in about twelve inches of water. All sorts of restorative , measures were adopted, but proved un- , avaiiinz. The jury returned a verdict "That deceased was accidently drowned, and that no blame was attachable to i anybody." j The Wanganui wholesale merchants ' e:r«ml\rij«ed their client.- that all prices ! wdulil be advanced 5 per cent during Uia . stride. The retail grocers Lmmediwteiy ' palled a meeting strongly prote.-tng ; against this increase, especially on guuu.3 ' manufactured locally, such as biscuits, . soap, and picklits, also on kerosene and benziu?. which is only imported by the ] Standard Oil Company and stored locally, ' a i.l rUi'.:; of which were not short. Th."! ; i;i'-re.i;e en flour and produce was also strung!}" objected to, seeing that the steamers were working between Timard ; and Wcngr.nui, with" the watersides working a≤ usual at both port?. The wholesale merchants are to meet to con ■iilcr the protest entered by the retail ] grocers. j A Wellington bun".ne.«s man, in no way concerned with the strike or strikers, a day or two ago had a sharp reminder j of* the timea Wellington is passing! through. The ladies of the house found ; a <*:ird on the table in one of the rooini- ; with the initial* "I.'W'.W.," and a print : of a hand in rt-d. The card stated thai ' the house would be bvrne-1 down, and i the name of -i. householder was men- i ticnc-d. It was evident that a mistake j had been made in the address, for the . Til mc- on the card was that of a Ilarbour i Board official living clcee by. An at- ! tpir.f/t appears to have been made to j burn down the house, for a fire was; discovered in one room, and although it | was confined to the one room the dam- j .<■_:■'. »£* considerable. The matter was j pl.iced in the hands of the police. A largely-attended meeting of the Auckland City Prohibition League- wjs ■ held un Tuesday evening under the presidency of Mr. W. E. Tuck, when the f.'llowin/r matters of public interest were dealt with. Resolved by a rising vote: ; "That we place on record our high appreciation of tiie lofty ideals, wide sympathy, and unselfish, devotion of the late Rev." C. E. Beeeroft. We acknowledge with gratitude the deep interest that he has always displayed in tbo tcrniierar.c? movement, and thi! valuable Stance which our organisation has receive! fro-m him. We tender to the Ministers and laymen of the Methodist Church of New Zealand our sincere sympathy in the lo=s which they have, sustained by the <I<??.th of fo nobic a minister of the Gospel.' , The secretary reported that within the area allotted by the s:ri'/.e now being maintained iii Auckland ail premises licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquors had been closed by order of \'ur- magistrate*. T"a:» step had been urged by Labour unions, and the Committee controlling the strike, and had been approved by all sections of the community. The immediate rcs-iilt. had been a considerable reduction in the eh:ir<:es of drunkenness brought before the Police Court—cipht case? for the first week daring which the bare had been closed, as against 45 case? for th? preceding week. It was resolved: "That we record our appreciation of the wiee action taken in closing the licensed premises and our satisfaction with the marked improvement consequent upon thi3 action. , " Wherever the efficiency of the individual is impaired by accident, sickness or permanent dii-able.ment. the wealth of the community suffers.' , said Air. J. D. Fitzgerald, in the course of an address given before the New South Wales nr:i!t!i Society last week. "The community." he added, "?uffere by the actual loss of the work or the enforced idleness, for the individual becomes a burden in th..' hospital." From this ho drew the lesson that all that concerned health should be nationalised. He urged the' establishment of better housing conditions for the people in the most healthy surroundings. a::d following this came the removal of all factory and industrial workers to garden village surroundings. I Then came better supervision over the safety of miners and workers in dangerous occupations, the multiplication of parks and breathing spaces, the "nationalisation of health (not of thr medical profession, a* was often mistakenly sup- ! posed), the further application of municipal services, the medical examination and treatment of school children, and the increase in the number of maternity tomes and hospitals. Dealing with the I last, he ,<aid the wise political economist would say the young mother was the best wealth producer, and ye*, in Australia they lot-t a thousand every year through child-bird,. Thus a Wellington paper refers to the mounted -men stationed thorp to repress strike disturbances: "They are -.ill capital horsemen, from the youngest to the gTey-beards, and though many of th m are farmers and station-holders in a big way, they have proper! vprr amenable :o discipline. The drill which they have undercone ha.- turned them into an effl cienily-orjranised force. All h: , .nds take a hand in the big wash-up tha: siscce every nie.il. An officer of the fore:> .vjys: "It is really a great sight to see men who have been a.ssor.fated with the i brra'icLnp-in of the bark ccu-trry washing and wiping up the uishr-s. They are the finest fellows goinn. sad I oai'y wish 1 I hud them under mc as sohiier.-. V>"h.it i a crack corps they would cia.l-;rt* The ! b:cr drill hall in Buckle Street i> the ' rcain messroun:. It i? laid each m-::i- ---; tiffii , for 400 mc! , .. A great Roberts ; ,-,iiiip stove- sent forth its odour. Th? j stove cook;, rr.nugh ho" fooj for 5"0 rrrn at, oa» uispatch with the OKppJidiI ture of only one hundredweight of foil."' i .4 shco-pkeeper and iradesirKra in Tauranga received notice from the insurance company wh-i-ch l>oid« a. policy on his shop window that ■tie prenjinm—ron account of the strike to be raised immediately from. £1 par oeai per tmr)iim to £5 -per cent fox three mcaithfe.