DUNEDIN NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 461, 20 March 1909, Page 6

DUNEDIN NOTES.

(ni TEIiEGEAPH—SrECUD CORRESPONDENT.) Diinedini; Maicii.. 18. ■ The, year'a .working's of • the' City tion's '.tramways 'sho.w a profit. 'of over £27,000 over and above working expenses, and that .after allowing for all, chargcs, renewals, depreciation, etc, the net profit is £3000. . ; , . " Kather a remarkable instance of payment for hospital .treatment camo from an expatient now ongaged in harvesting. Ho wrote to tho. trustees' enclosing £1 for.treatment, and said that when discharged the hospital doctor had advised him to get work. He took on clerical work at first, and found his health such that he could not apply his mind tio it.at all., Then lie chose harvesting as. being tho, hardest work with the. longest hours that, he know of, and it suits liim splendidly. He. announced his intention of presenting himself to tho doctor on his return to. Dunedin for examination', with a viow to -finding, out whether all that really ailed him.pas the'need of hard work;