LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2888, 28 September 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The naval ratings from the New Zealand warship 3 who aro coming here on leave aro on board the Wimraera, which was originally due here to-day, but owing to the recent rain in Melbourne her departure was delayed until Tuesday afternoon, and she is now duo horp soma time on Sunday. At the end of the week, when the vessel gets within, wireless range, the Hnddart-Parker Company will be advised when she will be due hero, and definite information will then be given out. According to a return in the possession of the Minister of Publio Health (the Hon. G. "W. Russell) there were on September 18 256 sick and wounded soldiers undergoing treatment at hospitals in the Dominion—2l2 being in-patients and 44 out-patients. The biggest number are at the Auoklan'd Hospital, which has 68 in-patients and 2 out-patients. In Wellington there are 6 in-patients and 3 out-patienxs, and in other general hospitals the numbers are correspondingly low. At the thermal sanatoria there are larger numbers—3B at Hotorua, 33 in King George V Hospital (at Rotorua), and 11 at Hanroer. At "Taumaru" Convalescent "Home, at Lowry Bay, there are 12 patients.

As a. memento of the first visit of the Imperial Japan Mail lino'to Wellington. Captain Tanaka, s.s. Akita Maru, has presented to the Dominion Museum a valuable steel helmet worn by a Japanese warrior in the sixteenth century. The helmet shows fine workmanship, and is curiously like those now used in Europe. 1 The boundaries of the recruiting, districts under the Military Service Act are announced in a "Gazette Extraordinary" issued last night. They conform to the military groups gazetted a few, clays ago, each of the. groups boing constituted a" recruiting district. There are twenty-one districts, and each will be assigned a monthly quota of recruits on the basis of the number of members of the Expeditionary Force' Reserve shown by the rolls to reside within its boundaries. A point of interest to all local bodies was mentioned at yesterday's meeting of the Wellington Education Board. Mr. T. Forsyth suggested tha_t as members all received advance copies of the minutev, it would'save time if the minutes taken as read. The chairman (Hon: J. Q. W. Aitken) said that the board- had Fad a lawyer's advice to the effect that that would tiot bo legal.

The question of ithe propriety of children being used in street collections was raised at the Wellington Education. Board again yesterday. Tho' Headmasters' Association sent a letter stating that it disapproved of such collections being made by children. The chairman of the board (Hon. J. G-. W. Aitken.) agreed with that view.""' He said that the examinations were coming on, and these collections disturbed the raindß of the children. The Patriotic Society had asked for children, but they had only just concluded an effort' whereby £4600 had been raised for the Belgians. The chairman moved that the board should express agreement with the Headmasters' Association, and the motion was carried. The Railway Department informed the Wellington Education Board yesterday that discharged soldidrs holding freo places at technical schools would be provided with free railway tiokets. At the August meeting of the Education Board it was decided that an effort should bo made, if matters could bo arranged, to take up on behalf of toachors in the service, war loan certificates to the amount of their war bonus for tho whole year. During _ this month every teacher who is entitled to a war bonus has been addressed, and 108 agreed to the proposal. On their behalf £850 worth of loan certificates were purchased, tho board advanoing the second half-yearly instalment of the bonus to enable the certificates to be paid for at once. The Education Board/ at its meeting yesterday, decided, also, to invest £1000 in war loan certificates.

During the year (states the annual report of the New Zealand Employers' Federation) two prominent employers of lahour passed away, and will bo greatly missed by those with whom they came into contact in the business life of the Dominion. While Mr. J. J. Craig (Craig and Co., Ltd., Auckland) had not of recent years taken an active part in the work of the Federation, his firm has always been closely connected with the Auckland Employers' Association, of which ho was a strong supporter. Mr. K. F. England, Christchurch, took a groat interest in tho work of the Canterbury Employers' Assooiation, of which ho was for soveral years a member of the executive.

A little measure of war.economy was decided upon by tlio Wellington Harbour Board last night. 0£ later years the board has published a very fine year book. Last year the cost was some £109, and this year tlie estimated cost was at least equal to this sum. The Finance Committee made no recommendation, and the secretary sought a direction from the board on the subject. The board decided by 7 votes to 5 not to print the year-book this year, for the reason that at this time economy ought to be practised.

Mr. John J. Virgo, the distinguished Y.M.C.A. visitor, who is touring the Dominion, will arrive in Wellington on Saturday night. On Saturday evening be will be tendered a welcome by the Y.M.C.A. Board of Directors and members. On Sunday afternoon he will deliver his lecture entitled "The Y.M.C.A. and War Work" in tho Town Hall ,at 3 o'clock. His Excellency the Governor will preside On Monday ho will be tendered a civic reception bv His Worship tho Mayor and councillors in the Town Hall at 11 a.m. Tho public are invited to attend. On Monday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, a meoting for women will be held,-when Mr. Virgo will tell the story of women and the war.

Jack Cursons pleaded guilty in tho Magistrate's Court yesterday to a charge of cruelly ill-treating a horse, and was lined 405., in default seven days' imprisonment. Messrs. Harcourt and Co. report fhe sale of No. 10 Marion Street a residence of eight rooms with a four-stall stable, on land 33ft. x 89ft., to Mr. jMervn' ■^ itz g° ra ld, Tor the sum of £1600. The property was auctioned by the firm on Tuesday at their rooms, W5 Lambton Quay. A fire occurred early yesterday morning m premises occuoied by J. G. Morris, furnishing storo, and Pellow, milliner, owned by Standish's estate, at New Plymouth. The building, which w insured in the Commercial Union for £'00, sustained damago to the amount of £200. Morris's and Pollew's stock are covered by the South British, the damage amounting to about £100 in each case.—Press Association. At the inquiry into the fire at Waiuku on August 28, states a Press Association message from Auckland, the Coroner returned a verdict that the fire had been -wilfully caused, but there was no evidence to show by whom. The fire, which started at 4 o'clock in the

morning in Mr. J, Gribble's saddlor's shop, spread to several adjoining business promises, the whole of which were destroyed. .The total loss was esti-

mated at £3000. Incendiarism was suspected. The police investigated the matter, but failed to get any clue.

During the last week 35 men applied at the State Labour Bureau for work, and for 27 of them .positions wore found. All but one of the 27 went to private employment. Of the applicants two were carpenters, six farm hands, two hotel workers, and the rest labourers.

At yesterday's conference of employers it was resolved, after a discussion on the organisation of science in its relation to industry, that 'the Government be urged to take up the matter of, the organisation of science in its' relation to industry and education. It .was also unanimously decided that the Government be urged to take immediate action for the regulation of wiemy trade after the war.

A seaman named Evans, employed on the Union Company's Komata, was admitted to tho Hospital at 11.30 pm. yestefday, suffering from a bad cut on the head and concussion of the brain. From the information that could '"be gathered last night it appears that the injuries had been caused through Evans slipping and falling.

A boy named Morrison, aged nine years, while playing in a school ground yesterday, slipped and fell, with the result that he broke his leg. He was admitted to tho Hospital for treatment.

A meeting of the Philosophical 'Society was held last evening, when two interesting papers were read. Mr. C. W. Adams, editor of the "New Zealand Surveyor," read one on "Daylight Saving," and Mr. G. V. Hudson read another on "Seasonal Time." It is

1 many years since Mr. Hudson first in- [ trodiiced the subject .of daylight sav- ? ing, and since then the subject has'received serious atention, and a number { of countries have adopted the ioheme. 5 Dr. J. Allan Thomson read a paper ' on "Brachiopods," and several mter--1 eating exhibits were shown. The following resolution was passed 1 at the last meeting of the Greater ; Wellington Town Planning and Muni- ■ cipal Electors' Assocation: "That {his ' association, while in sympathy with the ' project of erecting dwellings for work- ' ers, protests that moneys for the carry- ' ing out of the proposal should not be ' raised except by the express authority 1 of the ratepayers, and that under t no ; circumstances ■ should portions of reserves be alienated for this or. any other purpose." By request of the Returned Soldiers' • Club the following delegates from the Natives' Association, namely, tho Hon. A. L. Herdman, Lieut. Herd, and Messrs. Griffiths and C. M'lntyro, will attend at the club this evening and explain the scope and objects of tha scheme for establishing a memorial hall. A representative conference of delegates from local bodies was held at Wanganui yosterday to discuss the building of a link railway between Wanganui and Raotfhi, under the provisions of the Local Railways Act. Amongst those present were Messrs. W: A. Veitch, G. V. Pearce, and R. W. Smith, M.IVs. It was stated that the proposed railway would serve a large a.rea of good country and shorten, the present- journey between Wanganni and_ Ohakune by fifty miles.. It was decided to approve of the formation _of a railway district embracing portions of four counties, and roughly a thousand square miles in extent, and to urge the Government to have a survey carried out with the object of ascertaining the most practicable route.—Press Association. ; —