LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1182, 18 July 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The morning special cars on Sunday carried 329 passengers, and 219 travelled by the evening specials. The midnight special cars, during Inst week, carried a total of 141 passengers. The maximum, on any one occasion, was attained by '.lie midnight car on Ifriday, which carried 45 passengers.

A statement by the Commandant of tho New Zealand Forces (Major-General A. J. Godley, C'.B.) answers a question that has occasionally been asked whether youths under IS years of age, now serving in tho Territorial force, can remain in that force or be relegated to senior cadets. The General Officer Commanding has deckled that all such youths shall bo permitted to continue in the Territorials if passed as medically fit. The question has also arisen as to the posting of youths under 18 years at tho timo'of registration, but who will be over 18 at the time of posting. It has been decided that those, as a general rule, shall be posted to tho Territorial Force.

It is announced by the Defence authorities that in order to get the posting ot recruits carried out within a reasonable period, it is necessary that at Wellington some 200 or 300 shall be put through the medical examination oven" night, and notices have been sent out requiring that number to attend. Generally, however, only some 150 attend, and of the remainder some 10 per cent.-advise the authorities of their inability to do so. It is pointed out by tho authorities that failure in this respect will subject the person concerned to penalties under the Act. The Department is not anxious to prosecute, but will do so if those who have been notified do not como up for examination in future.

Mr. p. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, will preside.over a conference between the representatives of the employers and workers respectively in the furniture workers' industry this morning. The assessors fur tiio union a.re -Messrs. J). J!. Kennedy (president of the. union), D. Moriarty (secretary), and' J. Ferguson. For (ho employers (ho sessors aro Messrs. G. F. Brown ■{ Bishop, and ,T. G. Marshall. On Thursday, Mr. Hally will meet the Nnpipr hotel employers' and workers' representatives i:i a conference arranged for a discussion of local labour conditions.

Bnght sunshine on Sunday afternoon induced many people to take a pleasure trip over tho Wadestown tramway route. Six ears were kept, busily engaged'in dealing with the traffic during the afternoon a state of affairs which suggests that Hndestown will be a popular resort of tramway trippers during tho summer months.

A special meeting of tho Eastbourne Borough Council was held at noon yesterday to consider the, question of dealing with the spread of noxious weeds on Ixirough properties. Reports were received showing thai some private owners hud already taken steps to clear their land of weeds. ])etinito action was postponed until the uoxt meeting oi' the .council.

A conference ot delegates interested in the formation ol a New Zen Kind Sporting U-ugiic i» I" bo held in Wellington toilny. ..Mr. H. D. 801 l will preside. Mr. .1. K Norris, of Christchurch, who arrived in Wellington on Sunday, is secretary of a provisional coniinillce, which convened I he; conference. Approached last oveninp, Mr. Norris minted Hint ho was not ill liberty to disehw the objects aimed at by Iho promoters of the league. It is understood, however, that the oliiccl is of a comprehensive nature, and that Hie league will inlore.4 jlx>|f in the promclion of sport of all kinds, and in the protection ol' sporting interests. .

The Parliamentary Buildings are being prepared for the session. The corridors have been re-painted, and carpets laid down. The J'rinie Minister's house in Tinakori Koad lias also been renovated, and some additions made, the work being now almost completed.

A branch of Hie Union Bank of Australia, Ltd., is now open at Buckley (Tolaga Hay).

A one-roomed hut was totally destroyed by lire at Loktv Bay on Friday last.' It appears Hint Hie owner of the hut, Mr. lieorgo Wyllie, left home for his work at iUO a.m., and, reluming at 4.30 p.m., found the place in ashes. The building was insured in the Northern Office for .£3O, and the contents for .£lO.

Tho monthly welcome and reunion tea of tho Karori Methodist Young Men's Bible Class \ws held on Sunday. About thirty young men sat down to' tea, the Key. J. U. Clark presiding. After tho chairman's opening remarks of welcome, an address was given by Mr. E. A. Wright, MVP., who took" us his subject, ' O '-age, Physical and Moral." The address was helpful and interesting. In the service' following, Mr. "Clark was assisted by the iualo choir. His sermon was based on the text. "Quit you like men, bo strong." .As a result of the monthly teas, i-.nd the fortnightly meetings of the M.Y.M.I. Harrier Club recently inaugurated, increased enthusiasm has been shown in the class work, and tho membership is steadily increasing.

The report of a recent case in which a youth named William Cornish, of Brooklyn, was fined for failing to register under the Defence Act, concluded with the statement that his work-mates had subscribed the amount of the fine, but tho lad had refused to allow it to be paid. Two of Cornish's shop-mates called at The Dominion offico yesterday and stated that they wished to make it quito clear that the subscription was raised purely out of friendship and sympathy for the lad, and not because they were of opinion that he was doing the right thing in refusing to register.