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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1909, Page 6

A deputation from South Kilbirnie, introduced by Mr. J. P. Luke, M.P., will wait on the Prims Minister at 12.30 on Tuesday next regarding the site for a post office and other local matters. In reply to enquiries by the New Zealand Shopkeepers' Association, the City Council has stated that the widening of Willis-street at Goodall's Cafe will be taken in hand at the earliest possible date. On a complicated matter at the City, Council last night Councillor Hindmareh refused to vote. "I refuse to vote," he said, "No power will make me vote." ."Councillor Hindmarsh must, vote," returned the Mayor firmly. "I shall not vote," stoutly declared th© irat ecouncillor, "not if I have to resign my position on the council. The posii lion is an absurd one." The Mayor: "Councillor Hindmareh will resume his seat. The Act is perfectly clear that members sitting in the Council Chamber must vote." Councillor, Hindmarsh : "I do not care about the Act. I am nob going to vote." There was a pauss while the division was taken. The Mayor said he was clear as to the necessity of voting, but he did not' know! what the penalty was for refusing to vote. He would look the matter up anjl report to the next meeting of the council. "An exceedingly dangerous corner"' was the description applied by Councillor Fletcher last night to a corner oil Cuba and Manners Streets, in a question as to what the council intended to do in the matter. The Mayor replied that negotiations were still proceeding between lessees and "owners of property* He hoped to have something definite to report to the council at its next meeting. A change in State School cadet drill has been authorised, The official circular states that owing to the limited area of many of the school playgrounds, par* ticularly in the cities, and the consequent difficulty of carrying out company movements thereon with the broad front, necessitated by single rank drill, and so as to enable the organisation to be completed by the addition of squads and squad commanders, it has been decided to revert to "two rank drill" at the beginning of the year 1910, from which time the change will come into force. "This council is no charitable institution," remarked the Mayor of Wellington when commenting last night on a request by the Wellington Harbour Board for free supply of water need for its new wharf,, conveniences. The Mayor added that the harbour board's practice* was to take everything it could and give away nothing. If the City Council had to get some machinery passed over the wharf the ultimate penny "waa exacted for dues, etc., and his Worship thought that in future the council should give nothing to the board unless an immediate quid pro quo was granted. The council, by a majority of twelve to three, supported the Mayor. "FinecT 10s, or in default forty -eighti hours' imprisonment," is a familiar court phrase, and generally applied to a second-offending drunkard. In this case not much notice is taken of the "alternative" j but when it is applied to a shopkeeper, according to a speaker at the meeting of the Executive Committee of the New Zealand Shopkeepers' Association yesterday, there is an unnecessary stigma attached to it, especially when the offence is one of be-, ing open ten minutes after closing time. He thought steps should be taken to have the "forty-eight hours in default" eliminated from the law. Ifc was pointed out that to make the alteration an amendment to the Act would be required, and there was not much probability of that being done. The matter was allowed to drop. It was, however, suggested that a civil remedy should be resorted to for recovery of the fine if not paid ; a shopkeeper must have goods, and why not distrain? The Permanent Artillery grocery store was mentioned again at the meeting of the New Zealand Shopkeepers' Association yesterday. A letter had been sent to the Minister of Defence on the subject, and a reply was received to the effect that enquiries were being made into the matter. The chairman of the association's executive committee (Mr. Herbert Seaton) said that it had been urged as an argument in favour of the store that in England and other countries military canteens were allowed, but he argued that tha conditions were totally dissimilar. Soldiers in other parts of the world received about Is Id per day ; here the men earned from 7s to 8s per day. Suburban grocers were feeling this competition keenly. Another matter that required attention was the fact that tho military wagons were used for the purpose of shifting the furniture of artillerymen. This was not military duty. An amount of £179, stolen from th» Tramways Department's safe a year or so since, has not been recovered, and Councillor Devine wants to know why. He was told by the Mayor, last night, that no proof had been adduced of the assertion that a council official stole the money, and consequently there was no possibility of recovering the money from the fidelity guarantee office, which mads it a rule not to pay except when an officer was prosecuted for the theft. Councillor Devine -also asked who paid the premiums to the guarantee office, and when he was told that the council did so he expressed an opinion that some guarantee fund should be established by the officials. A deputation, headed by the Hon. T. W. Hislop, interviewed the City Council last night, and asked its support for a movement to have the Te Aro railway extended to Evans Bay, Kilbirnie, and Miramar. This, it was contended, would do very much to facilitate the establishment of manufacturing industries around Wellington, inasmuch as it would make cheaper land available. A speech *-as made by Mr. A. C. Crawford (Mayor of Miramar), who explained that the project had been before the people for many years, and that the need for it to-day was greater than ever before. It had been urged that the line should go first to Newtown, but he thought there were engineering difficulties in the way, and 'fc seemed to him that via Evans Bay waa the best route. Any land needed snould be secured now, before prices went up The Mayor replied that the council would refer to a committee of tho council, for a report, the representations made by the deputation.' Mention was made in the Magistrate* Court to-day of the two charges against Harry Johnston of street-betting on Lambton-quay. The hearing of evidence was further adjourned until Monday. Xmas parcels for abroad. Get us to forward them. Our service is most reliable. We pack in cases and send direct by steamer. The New Zealand txnresa Co., Ltd.— Advt. The many trials and worries that hay» arrived simultaneously are a core trial to many Governments. We hear rumours of strikes and industrial disturbances, the Lords and the Budget, the land wrangles, and many others. Then comes the tidings of record shipments into N.Z., including many hundred cases for tho well-known store of C. Smith, Ltd. With tho opening of these new goods special prominence will be givon to Unen costumes, in all the latest styles and colourings. Ladies' linen costumes, well made, smartly finished, clack collar and facinga in light tvnd dark blue, nil, pink, brown, , and navy, 255, 30s ; any colour made to order, '35s. — Advt