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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 78, 28 September 1907, Page 6

The Hon. Minister oi'Movine has informed the Westport Chamber of Commerce that its representations on the necessity for a marine engineer's report on the desirability of the further improvement of the Westporti harbour from the point of view of a naval station, >vill, receive tha careful consideration of the Government. /-. I|^ cr \ iewed in AucKland, the Hon. G. Fowlds said he did not think there was any likelihood of the session finishing before well into November. Tho Government, he said, was not going to bring down its Public Works Statement before it got its policy measures, settled telegraphs our Auckland correspondent. Tho Government has not fixed a date for the departure of the scientific expedition to the Southern Islands, but it is expected that one of tho Government steamers will leave on its annual visit to the islands about the end pf November. It is not yet known whether the Hinomoa or the Tutauekai will be" used on that occasion. The party ■will be limited to twenty-five members. Refusal by a cab driver named John L^nc to convey W. E. Pearson to the alleged football match between Taranaki and Wellington at the Athletic' Park recently, was the nature of a, charge heard by Dr M' Arthur, S.M., yesterday afternoon. The city bylaws, it was said, provide that, if a cab is m the cab ranks it in vitas people to step in. Evidence showed that Pearson went lo the first cab on the stand, and found it engaged. He went to the next, said' " Athletic Park," and in stepping iv remarked, " I believe the, fare is 35." Lane replied that he wanted 4s. Pearson was obliged to go to the Park in a tiam. He reported tho matter to Inspector Doyle, and the latter interviewed Lane. Defendant, on that occasion, al-> leged that he had an engagement, and said, " How can you expect a man to do a job like that for 3s?" Mr. Johnston appeared for the defence, and called evidence to show thit Lane had au engagement wlien Pearson approached him, anrt that he did not iefute " lo do the job for 35." His Worship >esorved his decision until 4th October. Truancy is not so prevalent an evil as' it once was. According to the report of, the Truant Oflicer at the meeting of tho Education Board yesterday,, there are only about a dozen readdy bad cases -n the city. Iv the cases of extreme poverty which he came across, Mr. Dinoea had obtained the help of benevolent institutions. The motor car attached to the Central Fire Brigade Station met witli an accident last Tuesday, owing to a bolt iv the steering gear breaking, as previously described. There has been a good deal of talk about the cost of the mishap, and some people have gone so far as to say that tlie Brigade would have to send to the Old Country for new parts. Superintendent Hugo to-day informed a Pos» reporter that the car had been repaired locally and that it was now in running order. There was a fire at' No. 59 Coromandel -street yesterday afternoon, necessitating the attendance of tho Brigade. The building was a one-storied, fourroomed cottage, occupied by .Gustavo Svenson, and owned by Miss MaryBurns, of Nelson. A sitting room with contents was practically destroyed by fire, and tho remainder of the house was more ' or less damaged by heat anct smoke. The building is insured in lha South British office for £300, and the contents iiv the London, Liverpool, and Globe office for £150. The cause of the firo is unKnown. J Sitting in Chambers yesterday, Mp. Justice Cooper granted motions tor pro,, bate in the following cases : — Willough'by Brassey, Christopher Simpson (Feild ing),' and William Coombs (Palmerston North). Letters of administration in tho estate of (ieorgs tionry Abhoi \vera also granted. "Ex-officer Wellington Rifle Battalion" writes : — "The colours presented on Dominion Day were not King's colours, but regimental colours The Royal, or first colour (King's colour) is the Great Union, the Imperial colour of tho United Kingdom *>f Great Britain and Ireland, in which the Cross of St George is conjoined with the Crosses of St. Andrew and St. Patrick on a blue field, bsaring in tho, centre the territorial designation (of regiment) on a crimson circle with, "the Royal or other title, with th6'vrhol6 surmounted by tho Imperial crown. The Wellington Rifle Battalion possesses a beautiful pair of colours, contributed by tho ladies of Wellington, and presented by the then Mayoress of the city (I think Mrs. Sam Brown), on Jubilee Day, 1887. Why were they not carried and displayed by the battalion on Dominion Day? «*&. Petone business man, who has a branch shop at Johnsonville, had occai sion on Wednesday last to send a telegram from Petone to Johnsonville. This has now been returned to him, and on the face are the following facts : " Handed in (time), 11.2 a.m. ; time finished, 2.40." A third memo by the receiver reads : " Time delivered, 8.15 p.m." The time in transit was thus : Petouo to Johnsonville, 3 hours 38min, Johnsoiivillo offico to destination (ebouo ISO yards), 5 hours 35min ; total, 9 hours lomin. He suggests that " this might pass for a drowsy old colony, but in a brand new Dominion it is somewhat slow." " Some idea of the rapid progress and the magnitude of the motor industry," says the committee of tho Wellington Automobile Club in its second annual >"cport_, "may be gathered from the fact that it is estimated that at present over £100,000 a year is being paid directly and indirectly to workers in (his colony in connection with , motoring, and now thc«t somo of the duty has been remitted it is estimated that tho increase in motor 'cars will be so great that over one million sterling annually will be paid in wages in New Zealand alone within the next few years, while Qiiiy ten years ago there was probably not n single person in New Zealand earning a livelihood from the motor industry!" . The Wellington delegates to the annual meeting of the New Zealand Master Builders' Federation,'' to beheld at Napier next month, will be Messis. W. L. Thompson, D. M'Lean, and J. Kussell. Messrs. W. H. Bennett and W. E. Grenfell, of Wellington, am respectively president and secretary of tho federation. Mr. Hogg, M.H.R., is a sturdy advd» cats of breathing exercises in schools. Yesterday he pointed out to his colleagues on tho Education Board that teachers and pupils in tho Hawkes Bay Education district had benefited greatly through tho introduction of breathing^ exercises. He understood that the Government had a book on the subject already in the press. Taking school? generally ho thought that in pot ono in ten was physical exercjib properly taught, and he therefore welcomed arty plan of improvement. ' The ordinary meeting of the Technical Education Board was held nt the school last evening. Present — Messrs. J. P. Luke (chairman), D. M'Laren, T. Ballingor, W. Allan, D. ' Robertson, T. Carmichael, T. W. M'Donsld, and La Trobe (director). It was rcsolvod to grant Miss Skitter ono month's leave of absence, and to grant a bonus of £20 to Mies Reilly for doing additional work, consequent on (he absence of the Registrar. Accounts amounting to , £655 were passed for payment*