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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 80, 6 April 1910, Page 6

An enquiry is to be held at Palmer - ton into the fire which occurred last week in the surgery of Mr. A. V. Burnard, dentist. Tenders for the erection of the- new Thorndon car- house for the city . tramways will be called for almoEt immediately. The structure, already mentioned in The Post, is to accommodate about twenty-four cars, the existing building at Newtown being quite inadequate to take all the rolling-stock on the city lines. Some thirteen or fourteen cars are left out every night. Tho Thorndon shed will be specially convenient as saving the trouble ana expense of running all cars back to Newtown at night. A strike of caddies took place last Saturday week at the Royal Melbourne Golf Links, as a result of some new regulations adopted by the club affecting the management and paying of caddies. A great deal of discontent permeated the juvenile body during the week. It waa not, however, made known to members till the Saturday. That morning an unusually large company of golfers assembled to compete for Mr. Justica O'Connor's trophy. Between 40 and 50 caddies attended and sprawled out on, the grass muttering to one another. When, the time came to commence play, the men called for caddies, first indifferently, then authoritatively, and at length wheedlingly, but not a caddy stirred. Then there was some talk between the leading players and the boys regarding the rate of the ca-ddies' pay having been, reduced from cash Is 6d per round to & coupon for Is 4d per round. The contempt entertained for the coupons by; the youths was expressed most picturesquely. They remained lying on the turf watching the players, who for a time were at a ioss how to proceed. Finally Mr. Carr Riddell crossed over to their camp and overtured on behalf of the club. A compromise was effected, which applied to the day, and the caddies took on the game subject to th© matter being thrashed out and equitably settled in the following week. The Commercial Travellers' Conference at Sydney last week resolved that all hotelkeepers who received the association's certificate should be asked not to take in as permanent boarders any person known to be suffering from tuberculosis, and that a copy of this resolution should be sent to the various health, authorities. "In, view of the awful ravages of this disease," said Mr. Toose, "it is t time something was done. The doctors send these people along/ and they stay permanently in hotels. Consumption has been so long amongst the people that it is not looked upon with the same dread as leprosy or plague ; so that it has been overlooked. But, according to statistics, more people have been killed by consumption than in all the wars of Europe. Every yeaT a very large number are said to die of consumption in New South Wales. And if, as medical science tells us, 90 per cent, of these cases can be cured if taken in time, the money that we spend in importing immigrants would be better spent in helping these unfortunate people. The disease takes them between 18 and 45, just at the time when they should be most useful to the State. They should be segregated. These proposals are not made in the way of unkindness — (applause) — but in their interests as well as ours. If they live in hotels, those who come after them may get the disease. We should strengthen the hands of tbe hotelkeepers." At the Hotelkeepers' Conference a day or two later its president (Mr. J. B. Sutton) vehemently attacked the above statements. He said : "Well, I don't know whether all the brains in AustraHa are concentrated' in the heads of the commercial travellers, but hotelkeepers who would take in consumptives as permanent boarders would show great want of brains ; either from a health point of view, considering their wives and. children, or from a business point of view. Such hotelkeepers must know they would ba losing a great deal of trade. And they are not in the business for their health. Of course, we all know there are districts in New South. Wales that aire healthful to consumptives. They are sent by their doctors to such places. Hotels there must to a certain extent cater for these people when they arrive. But; you can't say anything until you find they are consumptives. 1 don't believe any_ hotelkeeper would take consumptives in permanently, except in the sort of district mentioned. Our hands don't need strengthening," Mr. Suttoar ended. "We are not born idiots." Anniversary services in connection with the Northland Primitive Methodist) Sunday School, was held on Sunday, whea Rev. P. J. Cossum preached in the morning and afternoon, and the Rev. H. Cottam in the evening, to la,rg© congregations. Last evening the annual tea and public meeting was l*lt>> it being necessary to hold two sittings at the tea, and the building was well filled for tho meeting afterwards. Tbe annual report showed that good work had been done during the year, and that the prospects were bright for the future, xhe gold medal was won this year by Frank Dornwell, and the silver medal oy May Davies. Prizes were distributed by Mrs. Cossum to the successful scholars. The singing of the scholars was a feature of all the services; they had been ably trained by Mr. Long. Selig Brodetsky, the young London East-end Russian Jew, of humble origin, wlio caused such a stir in educational circles two years ago by being bracketed Senior Wrangler at Cambridge, has won another notable success at the University. It was announced last month t-hat> he had secured the Isaac Newton scholarship, tenable for three years, th« emolument of which is £200 per annum. Brodeteky thus adds another to his long list of scholarships, ne already holds the Marmaduke Levitt (£4O), tne Anthony Death (£6O), the Fishmongers* Company's (£SO), a Trinity Minor (£6O), and a Trinity major (£100). Several of these have two years yet to run. Erodetsky's home is in a small thoroughfare opposite the Assembly Hall in the Mile-end-road. His father, an exile from Russia, came to England, with his family almost penniless twenty years ago, and his clever son, thanks to the advantages offered by our free education pystem, has proved himself worthy of the hospitality which these shores extended to alien exiles. Without entering into the advantage! or disadvantages of tariff reform, we may say that for good or evil business would be affected to an extent thsft would ba imposiblc to estimate. The recent elections have revealed the fact that the people ai'o fairl3* eronly divided, and such Doing the case, it only waits th© test of time. In the meantime the New Zealand winter is closa upon us, and we must havo warm furs, irre'pectivo oE tariff reform. For be-,t value see C. Smith' 3, Ltd., range, all the latest designs in, ladW Fuis, Necklets, and Muffs— marmor, nmnkc loxalinc, white foxaline, white 'lhibct, and a wide range of fur sots of every ttvle and description. Pricelist on application. — Ad% t.