DUNEDIN NOTES,

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12497, 7 May 1906, Page 8

DUNEDIN NOTES,

(SI'KCIAL TO '*TUE TRESS.") PrNEDIN. May 5. Plans for doubling the railway litxyto Mcsgiol are now almost prepared. The Gjv'.-niuiont has purchased a number , <*t p.op.rti-fJ on route, with a view to; tr-i.- removal. The work of duplication ' will about six yeans. j S-ar.e: fever is raging at Knitangata, j wh-ere a total of twenty is relK>:'t.d „ ; A: th- rest sittin-3 cf t.u> ■ Atbura.ie:*- Court a*. AueTvinnd. j the -ctithern employers and Work- j or-' I'i.ic-.! will move to have the conditio::-' 1 - of the lato clot':)ing award made np-pl.cable to the employee and waiker* or' Auckland, mi that a uniform award won! 1 b-? iv existence ;:i the ii-.il> tin .v.ie'.-.ont the colony. Mr Jan:-.-. Allen. M.H.R.. has addressed a loiter to the Minist.*;* of Agrieiilture on the Mibj c: of the whito pine b.iror. which i- extending its operation.-, to red pine and other tiiiibert--. Mr Allen >ny.» » "bcrer** ot" some kind i.-* ; playing havoc with the timber in. many ' fhine.liii buildings, and unless some- j tiling -s done to prevrnt its- depreda-J t;oi;s. many wooden building*- will be , rendered wort.hh-s. an-Tsuggests that an expert be tent to examine- what is hap- i j