NEW MAYORS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1118, 4 May 1911, Page 6

NEW MAYORS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Christchurch, May 3. Mr. T. Taylor, M.P., was installed as Mayor this evening, and outlined a civic policy for the coming year, including the reconstruction of 30 or 35 miles of city streets, and paying municipal employees something more than a minimum wage, both without increase of rates. He hoped the completion of the • Lake Coleridge hydro-electrical scheme would have the effect of attracting population and encouraging the establishment of industries. He suggested that the city should obtain legislative powers necessary for the effective establishment of municipal markets and milk supply.

Dunedin, May 3, Tho installation of the Mayor (Mr. Burnett) took place at noon to-day. There was a record attendance, including Mfssrs. Allen and Arnold, M.P.'s, and the Hons. J. B. Callan and J. T. Paul

Some astonishing evidence as to what water is fit and what unfit for human use internally was offered in the Magistrate's Court (Dunedin)on Tuesday'during the hearing of a charge of tapping Koslyn borough's main, preferred against a man employed at Boss and GUmdinnigs mill in the Kaikorai Valley, jfr. Robert Glendining asserted that the drinking water was supplied from the dam above the mill, and was fit for drinking purposes, although men and boys had bathed in the (lam. It was good enough for him, he said, and therefore good enough for his employee?. At (ho other pole of opinion was a" labourer living near the dam, who deposed thai: lie hart refrained from bathing in it be-, caiihc he did not think the water clear enough for (hat purpose. And tho. analyst's report on a sample purporting (•j. have been taken from this dam was that it contained vegetable mailer and free ammonin, and was not fit for consumption, lint the most stasgering proposition was contained in the question put to the analyst by Mr. W. H. Stewart, vis.: Was'he aware that every analyst had condemned the city water for drinking purposes, and that the analyses had not been made known for fear of alarming the people? On Thursday, May 11, the Onslow Borough Council will hold an election, to fill a vacancy for Khandallali Ward. Messrs. Divan Bros, advertise some good hotels for sale. The largest plant in tho world is probably a species of seaweed, which often attains a length of 8(1(1 feel. The stems are dried and used as ropes by the South Sea Islanders.