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Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1906, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL. , ♦- From the Ist proximo the inland rate for parcels by parcels post is to be reduced from 6d to 4d for the first pound, and from 3d to 2d for each succeeding pound in weight. By notice in ihis week's Gazette, Duppa-street is exempted from the provisions of the Public Works Act, subject to the condition that no building shall be erected within a distance of thirty-three feet from the centre line of the street. The plans of the proposed Hadfield momorial hostel for divinity students in Wellington are to bo subjected to further revision as a result of the meeting of the Memorial Committee held yesterday afternoon. Already Richmonds are beginning to take tho field for the new Wellington suburbs seat. Yesterday Mr. A. R. Atkinson's name was mentioned as a possible candidate, and to-day Mr. A. C. Pearce (Mayor of Karori) is announced as one of the contestants. A restaurant keeper in Taranaki-place named David Barrie appeared before Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., to-day, charged with having sold beer without a license, and with having drawn beer from a cask without destroying or defacing the stamp. On the application of Mr. Levi the hearing of the cases was adjourned until 18th January. Income tax must be paid by 31st January, 1907. The Butchers' Union, in a letter to the Trades Council, endorses the action of the latter body in its endeavours to prevent the employment of small boys on delivery carts. In this week's Gazette it is announced that the ex-Ministers, Messrs. T. Y. Duncan and C. H. -^lills, have his Majesty's permission to 'retain the title of "xlonourable." A deputation of Pahiatua residents interested in Wellington City Corporation leases waited upon the Mayor (Hon. T. W. Hislop) yesterday to protest against the rentals, which they considered too high. The matter is to be referred to the council by the Mayor. The following are gazetted to the positions of postmaster and telephonist —A. L. Brown, Island Bay; V. X. De Caro, Day's Bay; W. C. R. Gardener, Paraparaumu. Mr. P. J. Voyleis gazetted telephonist at Pencarrow. In addition to the recital to be given on the organ in the Town Hall by Dr. Kington Fyffo next Friday, the City Council has arranged for further recitals. Dr. Gradshaw, of Christchurch, whoso playing was admired when he gave a concert some timo ago, is to, give a, recital on tho 84th prox., and on the 26th and 30th prox. and -2nd February Mr. Massey, organist of the Bathurst (New South Wales) Cathedral, is to givo recitals. A new round trip is in stoTe*for visitors tO Rotorua. The Tourist Department is making a road to connect Lakes Rotoiti, Okatinn, and Tarawera, and an oil launch is to be placed on Okatina, which is described as a very beautiful sheet of water five miles in length, right in the h-sart of the Maori country. A traveller, starting from Rotorua, will be able to complete the circuit in one day. It is expected that the road will be completed before the end of the summer. One of the roost praiseworthy "Christmas greetings" received by the Evening J Post comes from the Genera) Post Office, Wellington. A Maori maid sits among the insulators, of a telegraph post, whose wires droop among a litter of telegrams, letters and a bag of his Majesty's mail. The arch-looking brown girl has seized Father Time's scythe, and seems to havo reduced the old gentleman to abject submission. Aliss Sybil Johnson is the designer of this neat compliment to the efforts of the Post and Telegraph Office to beat the clock. Inside there are tables of statistics showing the increase of business since 1895. When Mr. A. C. Pearce (Mayor of Karori) was interviewed on Thursday he explained that he could not supply certain figures, because they were, not is his office. Accordingly, he was obliged to wait till he secured them from his home. This fact wa.s inferred in the Post report, b«t apparently, at least ono correspondent has mist judged Mr. Pearce in this matter and mferred that Mr. Pearce scoured the information only after our representative called on him. According to the Bishop of Welling ton tho greod for gold is now much stronger among the people of New Zea land than it was a low years ago. His Lordship, speaking at ,the Collegiate School (remarks the Wanganni Chroni. icIo) said that while travolling on the railway he heard an unusual amount of talk about money and the quiokest mea^ns pf becoming wealthy. This de6iro for riches, to the exclusion of* nob ler ideals, was to be deplored. In this connection he mentioned that the Americans, though a fine people, knew less than any other people what peace and joy and rest wore. This was duo to their feverish rush after the dojlar, Tho Public Works Department has r«j ceived tho following tenders for the undermentioped works : — Erection of Publio Trust Office building, WellingtonDesign "B.": Facing of Tonga Bay granite— Accepted, J. and A. Wilson, Wellington, £40,780. Declined— Martin, Hurrell, and Snaddon, Wellington, £41,579; Mitchell and King, Wellington, £41.928; \V. H. Bennett, Welling, ton £42,333 ; Hunt . and M'Donald, Wellington, £44,340. Design "A."~ Facing, part Tonga Bay granite and part Sydney sandstone— Declined— Mitchell and King, Wellington, £39,500 ; J. and A. Wilson, Wellington, £39,880; Martin, Hurrell, and Snaddon, Welling, ton, £39,897; W. H, Bepnctt, Wellington, £40,280, Additions to Telephone Exchange, Wellington. - Accepted :— M'Lean and Gray, Wellington, £88. declined— W. D James, Wellington, *%i Bengo and CoJloy, Wellington, £127; W. G. Eraeny, Wellington, 5155. Sydney's Sunday Sun gently gibes Hie Now South Wales Government for secreting its Intelligence and Tourist Bureau in a back street. It is argued that whilo the function of th^ bureau is to furnjsh information as to the whereaboute of plaoes of interest, tho office itself takes some finding. "A humorous indication of the public's, ignorance as to the locality of the Sydney oince, and a tribute to the up-to-datonoss of otlwr colonies, in this matter of tourist buTeftux." romoxka the Sun, "ig nffoidcd "Y . a "y* 1^ |x»Reeni«n's nnswer to a visitor's quory about tho wherenbouto of the local bureau. 'I don't know,' said Robert, 'But if you ask at the New Zealand Tourist Office they'll bo ablo jlo tell you.' New South Wales, however, intends following New Zealand's example in having a conspicuous bureau in a busy part of tho city. 1 This week's Gasette announces that »mo twelve acres of land at Otaki havo loon taken under the Publio Works Act yr a hoslptal site, and twenty-six acres ftr a consumptive sanatorium. The land tlken was part of tho Church Mission gmnt, and it will now be vested in the Wellington Hospital District Board. Special attention is called by KirkcaHie and Stains, Ltd., to the fact that thfir warehouse wiU temaro open until iMidffl; .(GhriatmM Eve).-- Mr£