LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1304, 6 December 1911, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Daylight Savins: Bill Committee, which was formed in Wellington some wooks ago. arranged to have questions put to candidates for Parliament all over the Dominion, with the object of ascertaining their attitude towards the scheme of daylight Raving. Replies have been received from a large number of localities in all parts of the country, and are ulI to the effect that the candidates questioned have expressed themselves in favour of the Daylight Saving Bill, and have promised to support it if they are returned to Parliament.

A meeting of creditors in tin? bankrupt estate of Wm. Edward Timmings, baker, of Lower Hntt, iras hold in the Official Assignoo's office yesterday morning. There were three creditors present:. The meeting was adjourned in order that the. Official Assignee might make full inquiry into the affairs of Die estate. A further meeting will be lield.

"There are move labour troubles," writes ( lie Tongau correspondent of the Auckland "Herald." "This time araoug the Native assistants at the hospital, who have sent a joint letter to the chief medical officer, saying <bat, unless their t-aln-riej arc raised, they will be reluctantly compelled to leave work and go out os *i protest. In this connection it may be mentioned that oue of tuo lending traders iii Viivua, beiiiK tired of the trouble of trying to induce Toil Rails and Nieueatis to work, has imported a gang of 19 Indians from Fiji, to do his copra shipping ami general work. It is said that these men are much more satisfactory than the Pacific Islanders, and several others will probably do the same, aiul import labour. There is sure to be the objection raised that the Indian is a menace to the native race, as is the case in Fiji, where tho natives are. being fast supplanted by the coolies; but, on tho other hand, it is artrued that if these labourers are engaged lor a term, and then compelled to lcavo tho country at the end of that term, or else make a new agreement for a fresh term of service, it should obvialc any difficulty with regard to their remaining in the group to engage in trade or take up laud."

Permanent regimental r|iiartcrmasterscrgeaufs have been appointed as under to tho various regiments in tho Wellington military district:—G. Davis. 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles; ]•;. .1. Butler Gtli (Manawatu) Mounted liiflci: ,T. T. Wilson, flth (Wellington Kast Coast.) Mounted Rillosj J. IT. Sharp, 51 h Kegimonl. (Wellington Ilifles): J. Spence, 7th Regiment (Wellington West Coast Ki(les); L. V. M'Nair, iliii Regiment (Wellington Kast Coast lliflesh K. •I. Browning, 11th .Regiment (Taranaki Kiiles).

The Wanganiri Rifle Associnlion h;'.s been constituted a "Group Rifle Association" under the new scheme for tho control of competitive musketry in the Defence Forces, and will bo known as the

"Xo. 6 Area Group Rifle Association,' , with headquarters at Wanganui. The officers arc:—President, Colonel E. W. C. Chaytor, Officer Commanding District (ex officio); Committeo of Management, Ofljcer Commanding Wellington Mounted Rifles Brigade, Officer Commanding WclliiiHfon Infantry Brigade, GciiDr.il Staff Officer Wellington District, LieutenantColonel It. Hughes, 7th Uegimout, Captain C. L. Poraorvilk-, president SVauganiii liiflo Club, Captain H. S. Ci. Harper, Captain J. M'Naught, and Captain W. H. Cunninghain, 7tli Regiment.