LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 77, 24 December 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A Gazette Extraordinary published o" Saturday, prohibits the exportation of pork, bacon, and hams from New Zealand.

No person will bo allowed to enter Trentbam Camp during the holidays (December 22 to December 261 mless having first obtained a special pass from Camp Hendouarters (states an order). This order is not subject to any exceptions. A similar rule will apply at Fentherston Camp.

Labour is very scarce in Lvtteltoii just at present, the different shipping companies flndiiifr it a very to Ret the required labour. Nearly every wharf is occupied by !nn;e and email steamers, and about another two hundred men will be required, or else a serious delay is hound to occur during tho holidays,

The Minister of Internal Affairs baa heen advised that the Amorican COll- - has received Instructions from his Department of State itulhorising the American Consular Agents at Chnstchurch and Dunedin to vise the Dassports of persons travelling to the t'nited States of America. Previously the passports have had to bo vised by the Consular Agent in Wellington.

The Featherston Camp Commandant's Cup, presented for the best-kept hut.", and lines, has been awarded to the 35th Specialist Company frr tho week ending Saturday, December 15.

The following temporary appoitffc ments have been approved by tho Camp Commandant, Trentham, the samo to bo operative whilst the mcti named aro acting as regimental chiropodists Privates S. A. Skillet'er,_ C Coy., and J. Mills, H Coy., Thirty-third Reinforcements, to Le corporals.

Australian shipowners are agreed that the congestion of cargo awaiting shipment from Stato to State is almost unparalleled. With the exception of the Sydney to Melbourne run, every other linking section around ilie Australian coast is inadequately altered for by the existing tonnage. Even with the pre-war tonnage available it would occupy several weeks to. cojia with tlie excess consignments, and in tho opinion of a leading shipowner the existing tonnage on the coasts will never succeed in moving the nerchahrlho offering, and there will be a permanent residue, for which, of course, tho recent strike has been largely responsible.

At 3.40 a.m. yesterday smoke was seen issuing from above the ongiaeToom in the small steamer Karu while she My at No. 4, Queen's Wharf. Tt was found that the contents of tho firemen's Quarters were on fire and the door locked. On breaking it open tho bedding and fittings ware seen to lie well alight. After aliont lialf an hour s work the members of the crew checked the outbreak. The brigade was called, but before the blaze was put out the cabin bad been badly gutted. When tlie cabin was left locked at 9.45 p.m. a light was burning, and tliis, tlie fire brigade states, in some manner caused the fire.

Messrs. P. Eraser and 1 T. Brindle, who have been serving terms in prison for uttering seditions statements, were liberated on Saturday. _ They were recorded a- welcome by tlieir friends at the Alexandra HaJl last evening, Mr. H. E. Holland .presiding.