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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3008, 20 February 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL 1 '.— 1 , A further statement conveying tho information that the issue of passports to women is to be still further restricted was maSo by the Hon. G. W. ltussell yesterday. "Tho Government," said Mr. Russell, "has now recoived a further instruction from tlio Imperial authorities that no women are to be allowed to leavo New Zealand if they Will enter tho danger zono, and that, in consequence of this, tho issue' of passports will bo still further restricted, and none whatever will bo granted until further advice is recoived." Tho Twenty-fourth Reinforcements, in camp at Feathorston, will go on extended leave at tho end of this week. . A special meeting of the City Council will be hold on .Thursday evening to pass a resolution giving power to alter tho names ol Princes Street and Regent Street, AVadestown, and substitute for tho street comprising such streets the name of Margaret street. Tho Minister of Public Works received advice yesterday that the men on the Otira tunnel contract had resumed work. The man who was the cause of the trouble has not been reinstated. Speaking at yesterday's meeting of the Central Chamber of Commerce regarding the Post and Telegraph Department's recent action in stopping the practice of receiving and delivering telegrams by telephone, one member said that the system had its drawbacks, particularly when girls wero entrusted with the transmission of telegrams containing technical tonus. They often ranio through in a badly mutilated form, and on nno occasion an order that was; sent through was forwarded to a. rival firm, greatly to tho surprise of the sender of tho telegram. The 'little bootmaker of Featherston," who has marched over the Rimutakas wit hevery draft since he accompanied the men of the Fifteenth Reinforcements, has produced a small souvenir of his_ connection with tho New Zealand Forces. Tho frontispiece is picture of "the soldiers' mascot," in liis old Volunteer uniform and carrying the (lag that he has borne proudly at the head of iiino columns of New Zealand soldiers. His Excellency tho Governor has accepted a, copy of the souvenir, and has acknowledged it in a pprsnual letter. Your old travelling bag View our wcek-eud cases from fis. (jd.; Gladstones from 305.; Brief Bsirr from 10s, Gd. Gco. Fowlds, Ltd.—Advt,