LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2987, 26 January 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Third Military Servioe Board (Wellington district) will sit to hear appeals from the ballot at 10 a.m. to-day, in committea room K, Parliamentary Buildings. Cabinet yesterday authorised the erecrfcion of an additional hospital' at Peatherston Camp, at a cost of £500. Worlc will be begun immediately, with the object of making the building available for use during the coming winter. Regulations regarding the granting rif agricultural bursaries to students who desire to pursue courses of agricultural study arid practice are published in the Gazette. The nature of these bursaries has been explained already in The Dominion. The scheme is to become operative promptly. The first batch of studonts being recoived on the Government experimental farms within the next few months. A remit forwarded by a private individual to the Nurserymen's Conference yesterday proposed that there • should bo a rise of twenty-five per cent, on all retail lines of nursery stock. Tho remit was put to the conference and defeated, every delegate voting against it. Mr. 11. R,. Blaok, superintendent for tho Easjtern Extension Cable Company at Wakapuaka, is at present visiting Wellington in connection with tho company's intention to bring the cable right into Wellington, and so dispense with. Wakapuaka altogether. Similar action is being taken at the Australian end of the cable. Hitherto the cable has landed at La Parouse, where tho company's operating staff have been located. Now the cable is to be landed at Bon3i, and conducted right into the heart of Sydney. "D" Battery, New Zealand Territorial Field Artillery, will go into annual training camp at Waikanae on Fobruary 6. The camp will last eight days. 'Hie New Zealand Government has bought the films of our soldiers fighting ana engaged in war work in France. The. films are to bo sent out to the Dominion, and arraqgements will be made for their exhibition.

A few recruits for the Satnoan reliefs are required at the present time. The men must he between the age of 45 years and 47 years. Enlistments may be mado at the Town Hall 'recruiting Office. Accepted men will be required to proceed to camp at once. ( The cancellation of the registration of the Wellington Fire Brigade Employees' Industrial Union of Workers is notified in this week's Gazette. Procedure in the case of appeals under the Public Service Act is dctined in regulations gazetted yesterday. Some amendments are made in the old procedure. The following temporary appointments have been approved by the Camp Commandant at FeatherstonPte. S. W. Mills, 23rd. M.R., to bo orderlyroom clerk; 23rd N.Z.F.A.: Bombs. W. St. G. 11. Wilson, H. H. Wilson, and T. K. Hunter to be corporals; 25th Specialists: Ptcs. S. C. Mackie, R. J. Adams, J. A. Mojo, J. A. Brown, A. Walker, L. C. Rasnmsson, S. N. G. Nash, E. G. Senkcr, H. M. Gordon to be lance-corporals. "We will have to faco difficulties and hardships during the next twelve months, no matter what happens," said the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald yesterday. "No turn in tho tido of the war can alter that, and it is most important that wo should all pull togothor. Every member of the Government is keenly anxious to maintain harmonjr among all soctions of the community." Under the patronage of the President of France and the Minister of Commerce and Industry, a great commercial fair is to be held in Lyons from March I to 15 nest-, on similar but extended lines to the one held there last year. The principal aim of the fair is to replace that of the Leipzig, and to make it easy for those who formerly bought in Germany and Austria to ascertain exactly whore similar articles and goods can be purchased in France. It will bo practically a big reunion of manufacturers, where everything of French manufacture, with all particulars as to cost, ctc., will bo availablo for the trading world, but it is made clear that tho fair is not of tho nature of a market, and no aijods may ho delivered from the stalls during its progress.

The lifeboatmen at Deal are having very strenuous and exciting times (says tho London "Morniug Post" of November 25). Already this week 82 lives had been saved from two vessels which now Jio wrecked oil the Goodwins, and ypsterday Iho Deal lifoboat was called out again to rescue the crew of the Norwegian steamer Pctra, bound from New York for Rotterdam with a. cargo of maize, which had stranded on tho Goodwius near tho spot whore tho wrecked liner Jlahrntta now lies. A hazo was prevailing at the time and rain was falling, and owing to the recent galo a tremendous sea was ttill running over the sands. Tho lifeboat was launched at three o'clock in the afternoon, and, in trying to alongside tho steamer, got several tunes on tho hard eauds. fortunately, she managed to get near the steamer without mishap, and took off tho entire crew of 22 men and the , ship's pet dog. Owing to the additional weight of the rescued crew the lifeboat experienced considerable difficulty in getting clear of the wreck, as tfto water was falling and she bumped dangerously ou tho sands before reaching deep water. By skilful seamanship, however, the lifoboatmen averted disaster and brought the rescued sailors to Deal, reaching port at half-past .soven o'ckjck. A proposal has been made to enlarge the Hawke's Bay Children's Homo, and the whole district is to he canvassed to raiso funds. The Frame trustees have opened the fund- with a donation of 100 guineas. >■ '.

At last evening's meeting of the City Council, Councillor T. Bush asked if anything further had been done in the direction of establishing a superannuation schcmo for corporation employees. The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) explained that the scheme was being perfected when the war broke out, but the altered conditions had prevented them going through with it. It would cost the council about £7500 a year, and the employees a similar amount, and he very much doubted whether the employees would be prepared to make their contributions in view of the increased burdens imposed on them by the war. Councillor Hildreth said it was regrettable, as many of the employees were growing old in the service, and the older they were the more they would have to pay. The Harbour Board had a superannuation scheme that was 1 working .very well. The Mayor, in reply, said that the council would be prepared to go on with the scheme as soon as the employees were—he could say nothing fairer than that. The St. Patrick's Day Celebration Committee has been granted the use of Newtown Park for the purpose of their annual gala, with permission to charge upon the usual terms. The all-steel suspension bridge at Upper Hutt, designed and constructed by Mr. Joseph Dawson, of Pahiatua, is now completed, and the earth approaches will be finished in a couple of weeks. . It is probable that Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P., will officially open the bridge. It is intended to have a gathering of Parliamentarians and representatives of local bodies. At last evening's meeting of the City Council a letter was received'from the Trades and Labour Council asking what objects were sought by the setting up of the City Leaseholds' Commission, and at whoso instance the commission was set up. The answer given was that the commission was set up at the instance of the council, the object being that the commission should decide the class of tribunal to be set up in connection with endowment and other special leases, not only for the City, but for the Dominion as a whole, and that legislation as necessary hereafter be promoled. "That an offer to raise a loan in the United States of America by the AngloRussian Trust, Ltd., for the council, be not accepted," was among the recommendations to the council ■ from its Finance Committee last evening.- .}Vhen. the matter, came before the council last evening, the Mayor merely intimated that the committee did not deom it advisable at present to vaise a loan in America. At a meeting of the City Council last evening, a letter was received from Martin and Martin (solicitors for Mr. G. H. Baylis), complaining of the continued nuisance . caused to his client by the deposit, of fish offal on the beach at Island Bay, and pointing out that on account of the plague of nios caused by tho offal ho has not been able to lot a house in that vicinity, for which loss he held tho council liable. ■ Tho letter was received.

During the past year there were 894 interments in the Karori Cemetery, 24 in the Wellington (Sydney Street) Cemetery, and 21 cremations. In 1915 the number of interments at Karori was 853, at AVollington 29, and there were ten cremations. '