LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1281, 9 November 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Post Office has received back from lasinania several thousand letters for the Commercial Hank of Tasmania at llobart or Launceston, containing rein it Uncos for investment in Tatlorsall's swoops. The Department learns that tho recent embargo placed on correspondence for t'ho bank iras removed on Hie bank undertaking; to refuse to deliver such letters. About 70 steerage passongors arrived from Sydney by the Moana yosterday, tho greater number of whom arc shearers bound for Lyttelton. The Australian wool-shearing season having just about closed, tho men have come across here to be in time for the opening of our own season. The tailoresses' dispute, which was to have bcon heard before tho Conciliation Commisisoner (Mr. P. Hally) at the Supremo Court to-day, has been adjourned until Monday next. The Marist Brothers' Junior Cadets, headed by St. Ann's Drum and Fife Band, are to attend Church Parade at St. Joseph's Church, Buckle Street, on Sunday n>xt. The cadets will sot out from Grcch Street, Newtown, at 10 a.m. Colonel J. It. Beed, Judge AdvocateGeneral, i\ew Zealand Military Forces, is preparing a manual of military law in }.ew Zealand for tho use of Territorial ?,,'■?', Jt IS to '' c Print"' shortly by the JMonce Department' and issuect to officers. A meeting of residents of Hataitai and Kilbirnie North was held on Tuesday evening at the Hataitai Bowling Club's pavilion for tho purposo of forming a bathing club. There was a fair attendance, and Mr. G. Halliday occupied the chair. The proposal is to erect on Evans Bay, at the loot of Kuta Hoad, on a lease to be obtained from the Harbour Board, a dressiug-shed of two compartments, with a shower in each. A committee, consisting of Messrs. Halliday, Batt, Mowbniy, Barclay, and Pinckucy, with Mr. A. Shepherd, as secretary, was set up to consider details and report at a lupeting to be held next week. There is excellent proniiso of support, and before long, it is anticipated, the club and its premises will be an accomplished fact. In regard to the present position of Mr. E. Mothes, registrar for the Hutt olectorate, it is now understood that ho will continue to act in that capacity, with assistance from Wellington. A "maro's nest" was discovered at U'o meeting of tho Harbour Board on Tuesday. A loiter was received from/ the assistant superintendent of tho Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company stating that when tho steamer ,3via Orn was being berthed at tho Hailway Wharf on October 30 tho chief engineer and two other engineers felt a slight shock, as if the vessel had touched. The captain of the ship had felt nothing in the nature of a shock. The harbourmaster reported to the board in connection with this letter that when tho steamer berthed she was drawing 22 feet, and tho water was 35 feet deep. AVhat the engineers felt was the bump of the tug coming alongside. It was decided to reply in terms of tho harbourmaster's report. Builders aro experiencing great difficulty in Auckland at present in obtaining carpenters and bricklayers (writes our correspondent). One builder stated that tho position was really serious. Ho said' 11s. per day was tho usual rate of pay for carpenters, and employers were offering 125., and in some instances 11s. per day, and yet were unable to obtain men. As an instance of how serious the shortage is, ho said a small builder came to him tho other day and offered him £1 it ho could find two bricklayers to build somo chimneys for him, stating that in addition to this he was willing to pay the bricklayers a few shillings extra. Another contractor stated that ho wanted at least a dozen carpenters, and lie also roruiirod more bricklayers. Tliero is very little doubt from tho inquiries mado that a largo number of ineu are leaving for Australia. What the attraction is over there employers in Auckland aro unable to say, as though big wages aro being paid in Australia equally big pay is being offered here. Several employers took this view, but one of them stated that there is so much building going on in Auckland that it was hardly to be expected that tho demand for men could bo mot.