25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 112, 4 February 1933, Page 4

25 YEARS AGO

Monument to Mr. Seddon (From "The Dominion,” Feb. 4, 1908.) Steps are tit last being taken to provide, out of the Parliametary grant made for the purpose, a monument for the grave of the late Premier (the lit. Hon. It. J. Seddon) on the hill above Hie Sydney Street cemetery. The PublicWorks Department has prepared a design for a memorial, which will surmount the existing vault, now covered by a tin shed. Tenders will be called in a day or two for the work. • * * The New Zealand Government’s method of treating good-conduct prisoners by giving them rural work is one of the wonders of the country to tourists, some of whom are busily engaged collecting information on what they sometimes call the Quixotic philanthropy of the State. The Labour Department’s first volume of awards, recommendations, and decisions under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, which supplements the “Labour Journal” in the new form, contains close 0n.200 pages. Awards are published in connection with al! the industrial districts. The publication will be issued monthly.

General Viscount Terauclii. Japanese Minister for War, speaking in the Diet, declared that Japan’s military preparations were not directed against any single nation, but against eventualities in the Pacific. In that ocean, Japan’s coast extended from the island of Saghalien to the island of Formosa. This statement is considered to be inopportune and provocative.