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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1909, Page 6

According- to the engineer's repor> presented at last night's meeting of ttx m ?nslow Borough Council, eight building permits were granted during August, the estimated value of the proposed buildings being £2950. Mr. J. G. Harkness, Mayor of Onslow, proceeds to Chri&tchurch to-night. He will return on Friday, and leave the same day for Sydney to attend the conference of Chambers of Commerce of the Empire as one of the delegates of the local chamber. He expects to be absent for about two weeks. "An organ-grinder, a recent arrival from Auckland,"- was the description given by the police in the Magistrate's Court to-day of a man named John M'Carthy, charged with being helplessly drunk in Cuba-street yesterday. It was also stated that accused had been in Oamaru, where a subscription wa* raised to send him to Auckland. H& had been on a. drinking bout lor the last few days. M'Carthy asked for leniency, and also desired that a prohibition ordei be taken o<ft against him. Hie request was complied with, and a conviction entered against his name. woman, who was also arrested whilst in a drunken condition, was convicted and discharged." Efforts are to be made by the Chamber x of Commerce to indure the Minister for Justice to take stringent measures with receivers of stolen property. At the council meeting of the Chamber last evening, a letter was received | from a member suggesting that more j promptitude s"hould be shown in dealing with receivers. The writer remindea the council that when a man not a trader calls upon a dealer and offers to sell goods at about 50 per cent, below their landed cost the dealer must know that something is wrong, and should be held responsible if he decides to purchase. This, it was thought, would help to check the habit of stealing from warehouses that some men seemed to have. The writer's views were fully endorsed by the council. At the Onslow Borough Council meeting last night it" was reported by the engineer that a house to house inspection of the greater part of the borough was being made in connection with the methods used as to the disposal of household drainage. He stated that Kaiwarra had a complete system. In other parts of the borough he had visited 151 houses, and found that most of them discharged their sewerage into open watercourses running through sections, and also into public street channels. He recommended that householders should collect drainage in small tanks or barrels sunk in the ground, afterwards using the contents in their gardens. -His investigations had shown that 31 householders were allowing the sewerage to flow on to the roads, 69 were letting it run into streams, and 52 were .utilising it for their own gardens. The council resolved that householders who are draining their eections on to roads or into streams be ordered to abate the nuisance, and notified that the engineer will give advice on the question of sewage. The question- of singing <in public schools was mentioned by a deputation of musicians that waited on the Hon. G. Fowlds, Minister for Education, at Auckland . yesterday. Mr. W. H. Webbe, presidept. of the Society of Musicians, said it was felt that the present system of teaching singing in public schools was having an injurious effect on the children's voices, and was likely to prove a permanent injury to them m after-life. It was thought desirable that the children should be placed under specially qualified teachers. In his reply, Mr. Fowlds said that the department of which he was head, as well as himself, were strongly of opinion that, ell teaching in primary schools should oe done by the primary school-teachers themselves. were beseiged with requests for appointments as teachers of special subjects, but they steadily set their faces against anything of the kind. There was a danger , that the organisation might be affected, and they were now trying to equip teachers in every possible way in the* training colleges. Civic ideals occupied some little space in the address of welcome to the Christian Endeavourers delivered by Dr. Newman last evening. The old idea of city government, he said, was primitive, to keep the streets clean, that was all A great change had come about, dating from the work of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain and his colleagues in tlie city of Birmingham. Their idea was to make a city clean, healthy, and beautiful for people to" live in. Wellington was moving in the right direction. Previous city councils had done a good deal to turn a wilderness into what they hoped would grow to be a great and beautiful city. The modern idea of city government was to do the best for the people living in the city, to help and rescue the poor, and educate the children of the poor by the provision, of baths, washhouses, schools, recreation — all those things conducive to the benefit of the people. Whatsoever wrong they found they should try to remedy. It was -a great and noble principle that they should try to maintain. He could not see why the city should not be as pleasant a place to live in as thr> country, and just as healthy. Wook in connection with the building of the ferro-concrete bridge over the Hutt River is proceeding satisfactorily. On the westerr bank the ironwork and staging is erected to a height oi about 15ft. This work is the most tedious of aD. When it is completed progress will be more rapid. The iron staging which has as its base the top of that part of the concrete piles projecting above the surface of the ground, will be boxed in with concrete, and form the main supports of the bridge. The bulk of the piles have now been driven. The contractors state that they have to proceed very carefully with driving operations, owing to the liability of the piles breaking in two under the' force of the "monkey." So far, they have been fortunate in preserving all the piles driven. The few that nave snapped off have broken only within two or three f eet of the top, so that their efficiency and utility have beet' in no way impaired. Altogether, there are twenty men employed on the job, the contract time for the completion of which does not exnire for about twelve months. The balance of the timber required for the work— about 100,OOOft->-is due to arrive next month. Messrs. Veitch and Allan invite the ladies of 'Wellington to the grand opening show of spring novelties at their showrooms to-morrow. The rooms will be lavishly decorated wibh cnt flowers and novelties in new fashions. Tea will b* served on the second floor, and the Neapolitan String Band ' will play selections during the afternoon. A special price list for to-morrow only appears on page 4 of to-night's Post.— Advt. Storage wanted? Right; we have it! Tlip very best in Wellington — brick stores, convenient, commodious. Lowest tariff rates. The N. Z. Express Coy. Tel. 1333.— Advt. The 6tart,ling news has reached xis that, the North Pole has at la6t been discovered, and though the reports may be true, it will no doubt be accepted with caution. Whilft waiting for further confirmation and still keep interest in the theme, visit the dress department of C. Smith, Ltd., and see the new fabrics that aro to be worn for the spring and summer season, one of tho latest, being a striped Directoirc satin in navy, peacock, Danube, etc., at l?a 6d the robe. Special prominence will bo given a line of plnin Direotqiro satin, a most desirable woavo for this season, 15s, in navy, reßed», Foa^vbtron. e^c— Advfc,