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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1024, 13 January 1911, Page 9

In the now Parliamentary Building, competitive designs for which are shortly to be. called for by Cabinet, provision : will bo mado for' a Heprojsontative, Chamber' to accommodate 100 . members, - and tho necessary' lobbies, galleries .'"for-"-tho .public, tho Speaker, for tho;''members" of tho Upper House, for ladies,- for'wives, of Ministers, and for the Press:- Thero will'be the necessary -Ministerial and Opposition" rooms, four '.members', writing rooms; and five committee' -rooms. The Legislative Council Chamber is to accommodate 60 members. ■ A lire-proof' records-room is likewise to, be provided. Suites of four rooms, for at least eight Ministers, and a lobby':loungo';for'''members"of each Chamber, ai'6 other "features of tho .specifications.' AVhen the abovd work is carried 1 out,' the building which is doing duty at'present will b'c "removed, and at a future date the second portion of the design will bo carried out. 'This will comprise Bellamys (to scat members at" dinner),, and among other features, new; : Parliamentary -Library rooms. i;hc'portion to bo' completed iirst must not Ast more than £100,000. Tho competition will closo on July 31, 1911.

Tho Public Works 1 Minister reports good progress, with the East. Coast railway. ..The. line has been formed for thirty" miles-from Oisborno on tho M.otu section. ■ The authorities find that just now.it'is difficult to obtain sufficient labour for this and other .sections, of railway that-are under construction elsewhere in tho colony, though the experience is not a. rare, ono at this timo of tho .year.. The annual -conference of the Australasian Institute of Mining' .Engineers will be hold this year at Auckland on January 31, afterwards adjourning to Thames" His Excellency tho Governor (Lord Islington) Sir Joseph "Ward, and tho Minister for Mines (the Hon. It. M'lve.nzie) will attend. The conference will conclude on February 0. •

At Lctchworth Garden City co-opera-tive houses have been erected a* an .attempt to solve tho problem of training domestic servants. Under the scheme servants aro brought together in one building, and trained, and the uecessily for them to.live in middle-class households is'dispensed with.

At the Jlarylebone Polico Court a welldressed woman' applied, lor a summons against another of her sex for making "an absolutely; false statement" about her.' in refusing the summons, Mr. Plowdcii said that-inaccuracy of staleincut was one of tho privileges of' a wojnan. "Is it, your worship?" said the npplicnnt with surprise. 'Then I. don't Ihink it is right, lor it makes a lot of trouble." iir. Plowdcu advised her not

to expect too much accuracy from km sex, aud she withdrew.