LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1179, 14 July 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Wellington fitv Kmpoworiiig and Amendment Bill was'submitted to the City Council ln-l evening by the Logislalian Committee, which recommended thai; thu Bill be approved. Amount the additional power.- asked to be conferred on tlie corporation are power, by :iu amendment to (ho City Milk Supply Act. to erect cool stores for milk, bulter, and other human loud, and power to ma,\e by-laws fixing charts for admission to sports grounds on city reserves, and to zoological pinions, museums, etc. Provision is inserted to limit the charge being made to not more than 30 days in any year: and that the charge shall not bo more than Is. for persons 15 years of age- and over, and Ori. for person's under this age. The draft 13111 was agreed to.

The undue levity of councillors at last night's meeting of the City Council prompted a remonstrance from Councillor .M'Kcnzie. who broke in upon a long dreary debate witli a remark lhat he thought the chamber was gelling absolutely farcical. The way the work liad been carried out that evening was "clownish." It was then after 0 o'clock, and thoy had done nothing. He thought it Was time thoy settled down to work. A little after this protest some seven or eight councillors attempted to jpeak-to-gether, and the result was Babel. A protest was made by Councillor Godber, whereupon the Deputy-Mayor ro.=e ana pleaded for order. "It's too bad," lie said. "I wish you would keep a little order, please."- The council then settled down, and business proceeded with reasonable celerity. During the fortnight ended July 12, 32 applications were made to the City Engineers' Department fnr permission to erect, alter, or extern! .'juildings, and in 2(i instances plans were examined and approved and permits issued. Tlie estimated value of the work for which permits were issued was: City i 8577, and Jlelro.se .£4152.

A New Zealand Sporting League is in process of formation, the object of which is to protect all kinds of sport and "counteracting the pernicious influence of the ?.nti-siiorting party." A conference is to be hold in Wellington on Tuesday nexi to discuss the constitution and platform of the League, which, it is understood, will play a part in the coming elections. The movement, which has brought about the curtailment of race-days, and, in some cases, the death of clubs, is said to be at work in regard to other manly tports for which the Lc.igue holds a brief. Mr. J. B. Norris, of Christchurch, is the secretary of the League. "They had measles in the house, and he was unable to have his evidence taken before lie went away." Such was one of a series of excuses advanced by counsel in the K.M. Court yesterday, when urging that an adjournment should be granted owing to the absence, from New Zealand of, his client. l)r. M'Arthur's eyes twinkled when the above excuse was advanced. "Isn't that rather a nicasley excuse,' was his rjuict rejoinder, and counsel collap.'.cd, amidst the laughter of the Court. The following limitation of persons authorised to ride, on the front platforms of traincars with the motornian, has licen decided upon by the City Council:—The Mayor and councillors, tramways engineer and manager, assistant engineer find manager, overhead superintendent, traffic superintendent, civ-shed suiwri'iteivleut, traffic iu'-pectors, ticket inspectors, city engineer, permanent way superintendent, dty traffic inspector. "Under tlio new regulations," said the Depntv-Mavor, "we (the councillors) will be excluded." "Under those regulations no one will be allowed to ride on the cars," added Councillor "Fletcher. A somewhat remarkable coincidence lias just happened in Opotiki. Somo three years ago.a local settler agreed lo purchase n pieco of In ml from a, Native named ICurei. A meeting was arranged lo complete the transaction, but on the day in question the parties concerned missed each other, and , next morning Kurei was dead, and his son reigned in his stead. Negotiations for the land proceeded later between the settler and the son, and it was arranged on Friday last that the deed should be completed. On Saturday, the settler turned up, only to learn th.it Kurei Ao. 2 had been found dead in his bed that morning. Additional regulations under tlio Post and ielegraph Act, 1908, relating to parcels are gazetted. k Professor W. T Mills, of Milwaukee, United (states of America, who has been lecturing on Socialism and kindred objects in dilloront parts of the Dominion, is pay. ing a return visit to Wellington. in audience whose small dimensions moved him to an expression of disappointment, taced him last night in. the Druids' Hall where he spoke on "The Final Trust" He argued that the great industrial organisations of to-day owed their existence and success to the economies which they were able to effect, and it would therefore be foolish to merely try to abolish them. They could only be overcome by bigger and better organisations. From a series of generalisations on the history of industrial combinations from early times to the present day, Professor Hills reached the position that the trust of tlio future must bo public ownership and control through the State. Mr. W. T. Young, chairman of the Trades and Labour Council, presided. A motion was put forward by Mr. Fuller at last night's meeting of the City Council as under, but was rejected ou the voices:—"That, in the opinion of this council, the time has arrived when all restaurants, tea-rooms, and other eatinghouses should be licensed by tha local authority, and that a deputation from this council wait upon the Government to urge them to p'ass the. necessary legislation." Complaint against the holding of various Sunday entertainments, at which a charge for admission is made, was voiced by Councillor Atkinson at last night's meeting of the City Council. The law against charging, said Councillor Atkinson, was being violated in something liko a wholesale fashion. He asked tlio Mayor , if he would get an officer to make :i report and issuo the necessary inslruclion to tako proceedings. The, Mayor said the matter would be attended to. A return showing the amount expended in tlio be-aulilication of tlie city was asked for by Councillor Barber at last night's meeting of Ihe City. Council, and was lost by 5 voles lo •!. After visiting l.ynll Bay and meeting several officers of Ihe I.yall Bay Surf Club. wliD asked for suitable accommodation for storing their life-saving apparatus, etc., the Reserves Committee of tho City Council recommended to tho council last evening Hint expenditure up to «£SO be authorised for extending the men's bathing-shed to double its size, erecting a shower and a partition, and to provide a. resuscitating room, together with an observation window, in accordance with a design to be submitted by the city engineer. The Reserves Committee of tho City Council reported lo last night's meeting of the council that they have cancelled the permits granted for the training of dogs on the city reserves, owing to the amount of damage caused to the ground. A recommendation was made by fhe Finance Committee of the City Council last evening "that the request of corporation employees lo bo paid their wages weekly bo not acceded to." Councillor Fletcher said he could see no reason why the employees should not be paid weekly. It would cause a little more work to the council, but would be a great, convenience to the men. Councillor Barber did not see why the corporation should not do the same as private employers. The labourers should bo able to get their money weekly. Councillors M'Laren and Fuller also supported llio payment of the men wockly. It was He-, Wiled on the voices to delete tho word "not."

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Tlio record attendance for any cricket match is 95,000, l.he number present at (lie England v. Australia Teat match of llarch, 1833.