LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1060, 24 February 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

; The proposals submitted by tho City > Council to its tramway employees were J handed over, to the executive officers ofi tho union on Tuesday. The main features ! of the proposals have already been pub- , lished. The union roster, for which that , body claims that, if put in operation, ' it will obviate to a considerable extent i tlu long hours -and overtime payment inr cidental to the present working of tho i system, without involving the council in . additional expenditure, was presented to , tho council yesterday morning. The agree- • ment arrived at when tho Tramways Con--3 fereneo last met was that the proposals - of the council and the union should bo ) exchanged simultaneously. It is underi stood that the tramuaymen contend that . tho council proposals do not cover the . ground it was anticipated they would when the conference adjourned, the men ■ expecting to receive proposals in regard . to rates of pay under a new agreement. . It is further stated that, the council will . submit proposals in regard to wages before tho conference resumes on Tuesday' ® next. . The permanent way of the Wadcstown tramliuo has now been completed on the • section lying between tho main cutting 1 and Church Street. The cutting itself r is well on towards completion, and will i. be finished in a few weeks. A commence- . ment will bo made immediately with the t laying of the track from the cutting : down the hill in the direction of Thorn- ' don Quay. From Church Street on to- - words the terminus the ground over which the track will havo, to bo carried presents few difficulties as 'compared with tho slopes of the hill negotiated lower down, so that over the final section the work of laying the permanent way will proceed rapidly. It is impossible as yet to state a definite period for the comfiletion of the whole work, but tho end s: in sight, and the Wadcstown tram--1 way should emerge from the construction 1 state well before tho middle of the year. ■ Considering the nature, of the ground ■ traversed the gradients of tho line are • easy. Over its entiro length they will ' average about one in thirteen. The only really abrupt curve on the line is at the ' lower approach to tho big cutting. The - remaining curves are fairly' easy. 5 An "Early Settlers'" section is to be - established at the Newtown Museum, and 3 citizens aro to bo invited by the City . Council to co-operate. ;A collection of i photographs of Wellington and district at ' various stages are considered especially, 1 desirable. . One of the principal cries nt the last ' municipal election was tlio necessity for ) municipal markets, said Councillor Fitz- - ceroid last evening at 1 the City Council. He'therefore movea-that immediate steps ] bo taken for their establishment. 1 It was ~ pointed out that the principle had already ' been affirmed by-resolution. Councillor ■ Fitzgerald replied that his mAtioji read i "immediate steps." Finally ho moved i that the matter'be referred to the Mar- , ket Committee to report upon. This was r carried. f It .has been decided that the next annual , contest, under the auspices' of the North > Island Brass Bands' Association, will be 3 held ill Giiborne, commencing on March ' 11 "next" year., . ' • > ,j The Wellington Garrison Band has arranged to give a .concert in tho Town Hall ; on Sunday evening. The Anglican' Bishop of "Wellington (Dr. > Wallis) will address the young pcoplo of - St. Peter's Church oil Sunday at 3 p.m. Tho'sito of tho proposed Hataitai tunr nel is to bo inspected",by the City Couni cil this evening, the councillors' meeting j in tho vicinity at 5, o'clock. t The proposed city by-laws relating to ; hairdressers wero-held, over by the City Council last evening until next meeting. Tho City Councillors' visit to the Wai-. 1 nui dam will tako nlace on Tuesday next, < instead of Wednesday. • » "It is very noticeable at, Home," said ' Dr. fNewmnn, speaking, to a .reporter rei garding his trip to England, .that the ■Kocial lifo is entering an age of huniaiiity. ! In.every direction so much is .being done ; to hrlp' the "potilV'thb""\vohk, and'tno af-- ! flietcd. The Old Age'pension,Bill has gijeii enormous. relief to masses of. tho >, nged. poor. Since. my, last visit Home, l consumptive hospitals, havo been built i .everywhere. I,.visited King Edward's Consumptive Palace" "at -Medhurst/ where . everything is done on a most splendid scale for the afflicted "humanity. The result of these institutions is that this chief scourge of tho English race is being rapidly diminished, i -;An earn«ft effort is, being mode both by increasing, the sanitary conditions of houses and tho towns to lessen consumption cases.' The only thing they luck in England for these. . homes is' a climate such as w«' have ; for our consumptive establishment .at Otaki.". 1 - A recohiiueudation by the City' Engineer, that a sum bo placed on next year's-esti-mates for kerbi-ng and. channelling Lome Street was!approved last evenins by' the ,City Council.' ', ... " Tho City Council decided last evening not to accede to a rcqiiest'.of the Hataitai Municipal Electors! Association that the stop at tho tunnel on tho -Hataitai sido should bo made a- compulsory one. : The use of the Basin Reserve on the afternoon of Saturday, March 11, for a sports meeting was refused by the City Council last evening tp the Wellington Amateur Athletic Club. ; The civil action James Flowers,. wharf labourer, v. tho Wellington Wharf Labourers' Union will be' heard in the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Chapman. Paintiff asks for n mandamus compelling the ufiion to enrol,-liim as. a member on payment of the'proper fees, on injunctioi to restrain the union from representing that he is not a member of the .uniou, .and .£175 damages. A sitting in Banco will bo held at 10.30 this morning, when fixtures for tho Banco list will be made. ~; A deputation from Brooklyn waited recently on the Kes3rves Committee of . the City Council'to urge that the suburb should be provided with public baths. Tho proposal has been submitted to the City Engineer for a Teport as to the site' and capacity of the proposed baths and cost. . ' y I ' ' \ Tho custodians of the city baths are in future to be paid for all time worked on public holidays when tho baths aro open,' and tho custodian of tho To Aro -Baths is to bo paid a similar rate for extra time worked in opening the'baths at 5.30 a.m., instead t of 6 a.m., in accordance with the late 'decision of the City Council. The Finance Committeo reported to tho City Council last evening that the City Engineer had drawn attention to tho , manner in which the contract for the manufacture and delivery of pumps for ; the water supply of Roseneath, Melrose , district,, and tVadestown is proceeding. - The reservoirs for ; Roseneath and Melrose have besn completed, and that for , Wadestown will b& completed in a few i weeks/ and non-delivery of the pumps is i delaying the work. , j It was decided last evening by the ' City Council that in view of the largo 1 increase in the number" of stock slaught- ' ered at the Municipal Abattoir, the '■ superintendent (Mr. Mackley).- should be 1 granted a house allowance of .£SO per ! annum. The salary of the caretaker is to bo-increased Xl 5 per annum. ' The liov. J. R. Burgin is expected by , this afternoon's express. He is coming to ) take part in tho eighteenth annual meet- . ing ot tho Church Missionary Association. ( Mr. Burgin was a member of the pioneer ( missionary party to Hausaland. This , party, consisting of five, was led by , Bishop Tugwell into the Hausa States j for tho purpose'of commencing mission- ( nry worlc in the populous towns there. ; They were driven from place to place, and eventually had to leavo the country after undergoing many privations and passing through a very trying experirnce; . Mr. ,l!urgin "will preach at the Pro- 1 Cathedral on. Sunday evening, and will I speak at the annual meeting of the .New jj Zealand Church Missionary Association in ' the Sydney Street Schoolroom on Jlonday 0 night. At this .meetiiv,! the Aiiglicaiv ' Bishop of Wellington (I)r. "Wallis)-will 3 nreside, and tho public are cordially in- " vitod.l . ' Tho, statutory closing day 9 for the weekly half-holiday for every borough I ami towiv district and county in tho K Dominion nro set ont in this week's h Gazette. : \ - • •* About half-past threo o'clock yesterday q afternoon Dctectives Hammond and Kemp airested a man named Henry Jackson, who will be brought before the magis- C trate this morning on a charge of street c betting. Jackson was. admitted to' bail t vesterday in the sum of