VENTILATION AND CONSUMPTION.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 61, 9 September 1905, Page 14

VENTILATION AND CONSUMPTION.

o TO THE EDITOR. Sir— The Trades Council should, in my opinion, take streps to see that all new cottages should have grated or aperture ventilators in each room, also asphalted foundations under the house, and plenty of breadth in the windows. Experience of rent-collectors and canvassers goes towards proving that the old cottages in this city are badly ventilated and unhenlthy, fostering consumption.— l am, etc., FRESH AIR. Wellington, 4th September. The Sydney Labour Council at a recent meeting discussed the unemployed problem as well as a proposal to tix a living wage. It was proposed that the Council should co-operate with the unemployed in a public meeting to be held at the Town Hull on 11th September. An amendment was submitted, that the secretary should assist the Unemployed 'Committee in drafting motions, but tlntt the Council's co-operation should not be extended until the next meeting. The mover argued thai the subject' was not one I for a public meeting to 'consider; nothing practical could be done. The Council would do better to co-operate in any movement having the objuct of building locomotives in the State, establishing national smelting works, and (he manufacture of the State's raw produots. The amendment was carried. At the Griuisby County Court lately, Isaac Solomon, jeweller, sued a fisherman named Daniels for a debt of £3. It was stated that the defendant, when about to be married, had borrowed the sum mentioned, and agreed to pay £2 interest for three weeks, which worked out at over 1000 per cent. Judge Baker allowed the claim, but reduced the rale of interest to 5 per cent., and commented on the plaintiff's exorbitant usury.