POLO TOURNAMENT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 72, 26 March 1909, Page 8

POLO TOURNAMENT.

[BT TEXEGRAPH — PEESS ASSOCIATION.] PALMERSTON N., 25th March. In the polo tourney to-day, the semifinals for the Handicap Cup were played. Parewanui (handicap 10) defeated Fern Flats (handicap 8) by 14 to 12, each side scoring four goals. Manawatu A (handicap 2) played Hawkes Bay B (handicap 7). At the end of .the sixth spell, scores stood 10 all. In the play-oft Hawkes Bay scored, winning by a goal. The two finals will be played to-morrow.

So many public men have kicked Te Aro railway station — methaphorically, of course — that it was strange to hear last night a city councillor speaking approvingly of it. Councillor Luke told his fellows that the proposed milk depot ought to be established near Te Aro railway station, for he thought that that station would continue, and increa-se in importance as the years went on and settlement at Miramar and Seatoun increased. He strongly deprecated the agitation by some business men, who were on the further water front, to have Te Aro station abolished. Some day the railway would be extended to Miramar Valley— ;(Another Councillor : "And Island Bay, too !") — and then Te Aro station would be a very important one. (The report which was being diseus.sed was based on the assumption that the depot would be ost»blished near the Lambton station.) In again granting preference to unionists in the new award in the grocers' dispute, the Arbitration Court has made some important stipulations. In relation to- the employment book it is declared to be ihe duty of the union to keep it at the Labour Department. From time to time the names and addresses of all unionists out of employment shall be entered, " together with a statement of the branch of the trade in which each such member is proficient, and the names and addresses of each employer for whom such member las worked during the tw elve months immediately preceding the determination of his last employment." To secure preference a, unionist must be equally competent with non-unionists to perform the particular work required, and must be willing and ready to accept the employment offered within twentyfour hours after the employer has given notice to the Labour Department that he requires such worker. "We have not made enough use of our own officers in the past," said the Hon. T. K. Macdonald, at yesterday's meeting of the Harbour Board. 'MVe have," he continued, "allowed them to be snuffed out in many respects and ignored." The remark was provoked by a suggestion that a sy6tem of signalling,set out by the Harbourmaster, Captain Johnson, should be abandoned in favour, of another recommended by people who, in Mr. Macdonald's opinion, were not experts. The inquest on the body of the late Mr. Henry James Underwood, who v.-as drowned in the wreck of the Penguin, was held this afternoon, when a verdict ol "Found drowned" was returned. Professor David, geologist to the Niiprod expedition, was ?. passenger fiom Lyttelton by the Maori this morning. He leaves for Sydney this afterl.oon by the Maheno. The tender of Campbell and Burke at about £12,000 has been accepted for the erection of Dalgety and Co.'s new warehouse of four btories at the corner of Featherston and Waring Taylor-streets, immediately behind W. and G. Turnbull's warehouse. Messrs Cnrfitonand M'Kay are the architects. Mr. William B. Bray has ' been appointed an inspector under the Apiaries Act, and Mr. W. S. Goodall a slaughterhouse inspector. The appointments were gazetted this week. An order for removal to the Supreme Court has been made" by Dr. A- ] M'Arthur, S.M., in the case of Jane ! Stanford, Hill-street, against Robert Henry Davenport, plumber, a claim for recovery fiom defendant of the sum of £102 15s, representing rent of premises and possession of certain • goods. De- i fendants counterclaim from plaintiff the sum of £38 10s for work alleged to have been done and services Stated to have been rendered. The total number of words distributed to various papers in New Zealand and elsewhere by the Christchurch telegraph office last night (states a Press Association message) was 110,000, including 8000 words for the cables. Ihe Masterton School Committee considers that the ennual elections of school committees are not sufficiently advertised, the result being, in the opinion of the committee, a general public apathy towards such proceedings as the mere ele'etion of local school guardians. The Wairarapa body forwarded a suggestion tt the Wellington Education Board yesterday, to the effect that more advertising was necessary. Ihe Hon. 4. W. Hogg supported the suggestion. Last year, he informed members, not till the election was almost in progress was he aware that it was being Held. A member stated that between 30 and 40 school committee elections in 1908 had lapsed for want of public interest, necessitating fresh ballotting for the unsought-after .office. The annual elections take place next month.