25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 103, 25 January 1933, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Downpour of Rain Awaited

(From “The Dominion,” Jan. 24, 1BO8.) Regarding the water supply, tin city engineer informs us that he has cut off the Karori supply altogether for the present to give the basin a chance to All. The faithful Wainui stream is just about holding its own, still filling the basin to the overflow point each night, and receding a little during the day. The greatest care in the use of water is still urged by the municipal authorities, for the anxiety will not be removed until we are treated to a good downpour of rain. In suggesting to the University Senate that “military drill and rifleshooting” should be made one of the optional subjects in the examination for the pass degree, the Council of Defence has probably opened the eyes of educationists to the extraordinary liberality of some people’s views upon the functions of the University. It says much for the imperturbable modernity of senators that the council’s suggestions were not vetoed upon the spot ,

Telegrams are now delivered free at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin for a distance of three miles between S a.m. and 6 p.m., and for a distance of one mile and a half after 6 p.m. Carriage beyond these limits is charged at the rate of 6d per mile or fraction thereof up to three miles. Carriage beyond three miles will be made by special messenger, and the cost will be added. These concessions with others of the same character for country towns, came into force on the publication of the Gazette yesterday.

The conference of the Labour Barty at Hull adopted a resolution calling upon the Government to establish minimum wages in selected trades. This was carried despite the warning of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Labour member of the Commons for Leicester, that the New Zealand (?) Trades Union Congress had declared that wages boards hindered more than helped Mr. A. Henderson. Labour M.P., said that Mr. MacDonald was prejudiced against wages boards, while Mr. Keir Hardie, after visiting the colonies, approved them.