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Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 141, 11 December 1902, Page 5

,At a meeting of shop assistants last rtiglil it was decided to make an effort io induce city employers to close their places of business on the day following Boxmg Day (Saturday), thus allowing i holiday of four days' duration at Christmas. It was stated Jiat several of the large houses are willing to adopt the suggestion on condition that it is generally adopted in the city. A committee consisting of Messrs. Watt, Birch, Beere, Edwards, Miujpy, and Englebretiion was formed to wait upon the heads nf the drapery firms with a request to \ meet the wishes of the employees. I The Education Board continued its siting after we went to press yesterday. / Vho Finance Committee recommended thai; painting, etc., be carried out at the Mount Cook and New town Infants' Schools, and at a number of country Mchools, the total cost being estimated at about £300. This was adopted, and it waa also decided to repair the asphalt at fvhe Clyde-quay School. The Teachers' Institute forwarded a resolution urging oh the Board the desirableness of appointing a Truant Officer. -ne Board decided that it could not deal with the matter H present. The Institute also asked that teachers in technical subjects should' be sent to the Forty-Mile Bush to instruct the teachers in that district. The matter was referred to the Chairman, the Inspector, and the Director of the Technical School. The Eketehuna Committee iwsked for a grant of money for ordinary expenditure. Its capitation amounted to £20, .and the committee needs £35 a year. The application of the committee >vas not acceded to. A tender at £13 7s ■>d for fencing at Rongokokako was 'ac1 r-epted. It was decided that plans be prepared for new schools at Jipuni and Muritai. ' Mr. Waymouth, who is the local . financial agent to the Antarctic expedi- [ l,ion - , has ascertained (says the Lyttelton , Times) that the accounts for the re.icving ship j.u.orning's disbursement alone • Amount to about £1735. The largest item is £291 2s 8d for coals. Of the I total, £616 will be paid to the people \ in. Lyttelton, practically all of the balance .going to Christchurch. The acjcounta will be met by means of the vote Jof £1000 from the New Zealand Gov- } eminent, which was placed to Captain C'olbeck's credit on Saturday, and by a draft on the Royal Geographical Society, ,' The Napier Daily Telegraph, referring to the vacancies which have occurred and "will shortly occur in the Legislative Council, says: — "When the new appointments, and the reappointments are made the Government, to act -with any approach to justice, must study the North Island. This, having more than half the iotal population of the colony, is so unfairly treated that the roll of the Legislative Council as at the end of last cession shows only eighteen North Island Vnembers out of a total of 46. The North is thus at least' five members behind, so that of the new appointments to be made shortly that number ought to be allotted ti) the North. As this district is interfisted so much in the question the' mem- / Tbers for the province ought to urge its claims to increased representation. It is plain that the existing condition of things cannot be justified on the score of population or of wealth, and as one or the other "or both of these ought to be a factor in appointments to the Upper House fair play to the North demands that at least half the members of the Upper House shall be Northern representatives." The monthly meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors was held on Tuesday afternoon, the Hon. G. F. Richardson (President) in the chair, ilhe question of strengthening local committees and setting up new ones was discussed, but no definite action was jfcaken pending reports from all districts. iA' letter from the Secretary of the Surveyors' Board was read, showing that full enquiry bad been made into an infringetaent of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors and Board of Examiners Act by an authorised surveyor. A letter was ordered to be sent to the Surveyors' Board, pointing out that applications are being made for the new regulations for fihe guidance of surveyors in the colony, iand for the amended regulations for examinations, the long delay in connection with these being most inconvenient to /intending candidates. The Premier forwarded copies of correspondence received <>y him relating to the admission of qualified New Zealand surveyors in South Afvica. The nomination of Mr. H. E. Girdlestone as an associate was approved. A letter of resignation was received from Mr. Samuel Harding, of Auckland. The resignation was accepted with regret. The 'Council passed a resolution of sympathy with the widow of the late Mr. D. C. Wilson, of Whangarei, for many years a member of the Institute. The annual meeting of the Institute will be held in Hhe Land Board Room, Christchurcb, on 'A'hursday, 15th January next. On Tuesday night Mounted-Constable IVL'Leod arrested! James Gilchrist and Angus M'Alpine in Manners-street for using obscene language. M'Alpine had just previously been refused admittance to the Opera House through being tinder the influence of liquor. Afte/the constable, who was in plain clothes, told tie two accused that he arrested them, M'Alpine ran away, and the constable stuck lo Gilchrist, who was dealt with by the Court yesterday. Last night Mounted-Constable M'Leod met M'Alpino outside the Theatre Royal • and stated that he had ' a warrant for M'Alpine's urreat. M'Alpine again ran, and a chase V'nsued through the apartments of the Occidental ; Hotel, until the constable ■jivertook his man in Johnston-street, ffhis morning, before Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., M'Akrine, who cauld 1 not remember using the words, was convicted. Mr. IDustin spoke as to the respectability of M'Alpine's family, and the young man's descent through drink. Sub-Inspector o'Donovan sail, the , police did not wish fco press hardly, or they might have laid the more serious charge of escaping from tus.tody. His Worship aaid that respectable upbringing was not a palliation of rtuch an offence, but made it the more surprising. Unfortunately, in such cases tihe respectable parents suffered. M'Alpine would be fined in the same amount as Gilchrist was yesterday — £1, costs 7s, lir fourteen days' imprisonment. A writer in the New Zealand Herald Asserts that gumdigging and timberworking have really been the bane of the .North, so far as settlement is concerned. These industries (says the writer) have millions 'of pounds sterling, but they have' done little to permanently benefit the country. If timber and gum had been properly taxed and the revenue from them devoted to fhe making of main voads and the ' building of bridges we ,»hou'.d not hear so much of the trackless North, and with proper communication nettlement would have increased much more iapidly than it has done. ♦ The following are the names of the ieam selected to represent the City Rifles it the military tournament to be held in Dunedin on Boxing Day: — Corpls. Tanner, Rankin, and Lloyd, Privates Feasey, Chandler, M'Gregor, Borrows, Andrews, Barnett, Smith, Cramp, Love, Herbert, and Stormont. Colour-Sergt. Davis will be in charge of the team. Lodge Hinemoa, No. 122, meets this jvening. "• If you really want tea for its goodness, then you want Suratura Tea. It ts soothing and refreshing this hot wea\her. — Advfc.