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

The Tci'awhiti is to leave at 4 o'clock to-day for Nelson, where she will carry out the work of lifting the Koi. The Painters and Decorators' Unions of New Zealand have decided that the executive shall be stationed in Wellington. After a brief consideration of the evidence submitted to it, the North Island Railway Appeal Board dismtesed the appeals of A. Macdonald and R. B. Milne, of New Plymouth, against their reduction in status in the service. As a means of improving the appearance of the small plantations in Cour-tenay-place, the City Council contemplates the removal of tho fences round tlhem. The general practice nowadays is to abolish fencing round reserves, ia order that tho public may foaA'e an unrestricted view of their property. Although the s.s. Talune was com© days behind the s.s. Mokoia in loading fruit at the Islands, nevertheless she brought considerably more freight to Auckland than the latter did to Wellington (telegraphs our Auckland correspondent). The Talune had upwards of 1000 bunches and 3000 cases of bananas, and 7000 cases of oranges and sundries, as compared' with 2925 cases of bananas andi 1369 cases of oranges and sundries by the Mokoia for Wellington. As a motor-car in which three ladie* were seated was being driven through Kilbirnie yesterday, a boy, standing with some companions at a corner, threw a. stone at the vehicle. The missile struck one of the ladies below the eye, and severely cut the cheek. The car was stopped, and assistance obtained for the sufferer. Blood flowed freely from the wound, and the lady also sustained a shock. We are informed that some of the boys in Kilbirnie make it a practice to throw stones at every passing motorcar—a reprehensible practice that should be put a stop to. During his reply to the welcome ex. tended to him~at the Bluff, Lord Plunket remarked that there was one product which the people might congratulate themselves upon. They produced Prime Ministers. It was not for the Governor, who was absolutely free from political feeling, to say anything of a political nature, but he might say that he had to pay an acknowledgment to yie Prime Minister for the constant courtesy and consideration shown in every possible way for any omissions he might have made, and he could only wish every other Governor had as. pleasant and easy and as common-sense a Prime Minister to meet with. "For some unexplained reason,"writes a correspondent, "Heretaunga," "passengers by the train leaving Wellington at 5-10 p.m. for stations beyond Lower Hutt have to tranship at Lowei Hutt, where, after waiting — sometimes in pouring rain — at an uncovered part of the platform, they squeeze into an insufficient number of carriages and complete their journey in unnecessary discomfort. On the other hand, passengers for stations beyond Lower Hutt by the 5.29 train from Wellington can go right on without transference." The number of passengers for places beyond Lowet Hutt by the 5.10 train is greatly in excess of the number by the 5.29 train, and our correspondent is of the opinion that the chief consideration should be shown to the larger number. On enquiry at the Traffic Superintendent's office to-day, it was learned that the objection voiced by our correspondent lia& been noted. The department finds that there are about 100 passengers for north of Lower Hutt by the 5.10 train, and only about a scoie by the 5.29 train, and it has been decided, by way of experiment, to send the passengers by the 5.10 train straight on ; the passengers by the 5.29 train will, therefore, have to tranship, in the same way as in the past was done by the I passengers on the earlier train. If lovers of Rare Japanese Art will call as Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd.,' Lambton-^uay, they will be shown some exriuisite «necimens, imported direct. — Advt.