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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. « At a meeting of the Makara County Council yesterday some vigorous protests wero made against what was described js alleged extravaganco on the part of tho Public Works Department m the making of the Hutt-road — the cost of which has to be borne by the local bodies. The Mayor of Onslow Borough holds very decided views on the matter. "There is no doubt," he said to a Post reporter to-day, "that extravagance has been going on. One need only walk out as far as the Kaiv;arra Stream to see that. I came in to town that way this morning, and just on this side of tho bridge spanning the stream they are raising the road a couplo of feet. That is all going to be built up with metal apparently. The suggested meeting may do good by directing public attention to the matter, but the local bodies are absolutely helpless. The law is clear. Without giving detailed instances of extravaganco, 1 simply say this : I am confident that the road could have been constructed at very much less cost if left to the local bodies. My contention is that tho fiov eminent took out of the hands o f the local bodies a work for which the local bodies are responsible. The Government absolutely spends what it chooses in connection withMhe making of the road, and we have to foot the bill. There is no right of appeal as to the cost. The position is clearly sat forth in the Hutt Railway and Road Act, 1903." The latest list of applications for patents includes three aeroplanes and two talking machines. A full complement of passengers left for Sydney yesterday evening by the s.s. Moeraki. The berthing-list snowed that 352 passengers embarked by the vessel. It has been decided that the two men who were recently discharged from the Seddonville coal mine, because it was alleged they were concerned in firing shots in the mine, shall be cautioned and allowed to resume work. An interesting paper on Maori architecture was read before the members of the Wellington Branch ol the New Zealand Institute of Architects last night by Mr. A. Hamilton, Director of the Dominion Museum. On the motion of Mr. J. Charlesvvorth (president), seconded by Mr. W. C. Chatfield, a hearty vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Hamilton. The Court of App-eal has adjourned until Wednesday next, when Mie case of Coburn {managoi jt New Zealand Truth) v. the Crown will be heard. The next case to be taken will be that of Bowron Bros. v. H. W. Bishop, S.M., an application for jn injunction seeking to re-strain the magistrate, from giving judgment in the recently heard income tax case. Up till about seven years ago totara timber was being exported from Wairarapa (stales the Wairarapa Daily Times). Now, however, this timber is being imported from long distances to supply the growing needs of the district. The full extent to which this is being done may be gathered from a statement made by a leading timber mercnant that on one truck of timber alone, received 111 Masterton during the week, the railage amounted to £22 15s. A correspondent, "Non-church-goer," suggests that, as a large number of non-church-goers are interested in the mission of the American evangelists, a service- might be conducted specially for them from 7 to 8 on Sunday evenings. It has been stated from the pulpit that the doors of the Town Hall wiil not be opened until 8.15, in order that people from the churches might depend upon securing seats. Tho writer thinks there ought to be enough church-go *rs to fill the Town Hall twice over and more, and he adds : "Let Dr. Henry and us I have a fair show." Rev. J. Hornby-Spear, of Double Bay, Sydney, who returned yesterday from a visit to Nelson, where he Had 'laboured many years, deplored to a Post reporter that there were- no combined nymn and prayer books on the coastal steamers. He fciiggested that snch books of devotion, which were formally kept) on board coastal vessels, should be returned, "as a bright and attractive religious service is always appreciated by the travelling public, and cannot be held without Buch aids, besides which, when the service is held on a Sunday, the offertory is alwaya taken up in aid of the New Zealand Association for tli? Relief of Shipwrecked Seamen, and the Christian public are always very glad U> contribute i to 60 desirable an object wTTen given the'oppor1 tunity to do go, so that by this means [a double good is effected/-