LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1306, 8 December 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual exhibition of students' work at tlio Wellington Technical School was opened yesterday, and in pniut of general excellence, and the variety of exhibits, the display as a whole "affords an interesting and convincing demonstration of the broad appeal which the various classes of the school offer to students of nrts and crafts. In tlio arts section of the exhibition are quite a large number of commendable- stndios from still life and objects, designs which denote distinct creative power, tasteful stencil work on curtains, table-cloths, cushion-covers, etc., and earefnl studies in anatomical drawing, jho work in the life class, aJso, is of a high standard, while Ln the crofts— carpentry, engineering, plumbing, etc.—is also of high merit.

At the Vivian Street Baptist Church, ami alao at the Young Women'? Christian temperance Union Hall in Constable Mreet, ail-day prayer meetings were lipid in connection with the JTo-Licenso movement. A special matins of the Onslow Borough Council will be held this evenint' to consider a notice of motion by Councillor Stafford to move, bv 'way of special order, alterations of the general bv-law with the following objects: Kope-al of clauses D and 11 of Section 51 Oi General By-law (relating 1o frontages), i and. re-enacting a new clauso (D) proscribing a minimum frontage and area lor dwellings; enacting a now section lTfia to the General By-law (relating to drainage and sanitation) providing that master plumbers and ma. ter drain-lavers, havinc Wellington citv licenses, may, without taking out Onslow licenses, execute work upon payment on each occasion of a Hoffn'ni n r i wi " 1)0 tlle Mn sidcra- • future Onslow sowerago in eon-?™i-°n)n h® cltyJs ,P r °P°«xl septic tank, etc., near the pound, Kaiwarra, and thereon 3 proposals tearing An effort is being made by liio masters aw engmeerco all tho Wellington Harbour tugs and ferry steamers to form a T n VT ! Vaster under the Arbitration Act., ibis is. being done \vith a view bo obtaining an increase in wa?es and a recognised limit to working hours. I >W ll 7 T A T i n ' '¥ whaling industry in \ i.ew Zealand waters 11 about to H;p ' ll! f Ce ' . '1 the Norwegian Consular Agent m Invercargil], states that two steamer.*, each of GUOO lons register have left Norway for the Bluff, and these areccoompanicd by two whalers equipped with the latest appliances for whale-kill-ing. ihe. initial operations, it was nuTfir t 1 . ti J 1 f a ", 0 ' wo,lll] to conducted oft fctcwart island and tho Chathams group.