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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 88, 15 April 1910, Page 6

The Rvet election of a member of the Public Service Superannuation Boai'd will be held on 31st May. Nominations close on 12th May. There are 68 assisted immigrants on the steamer Athenic, due here from .London on Monday. Twenty-seven of them are children, and the remaining 41 are all wives, coming out here to •join their husbands, and domestic servants. A correspondent, "Citizen," writes complaining ot the way in which admission to the Opera Hou^e is managed. "In other places," he says, "it is customary f or those waiting for the doors to open to form a double line along the pa\ement so that thot3 who get there first get in first. But here it is diiferent. If you are big and burly enougli you need not get to the theatre until just before the doors are open, when y6u can push your way through the crowd and so get near the door. How peeple escape injury is a mystery to me. . . If you stand at a cor-n-er and do not move on you can be summoned for obstruction, to why do the police allow an Opera House crowd to take up the whole footpath and part oi the road." Anybody who has sat in the Town Hall and lif-toned to concert* or speeches, knows how uncomfortable the chairs are there. Particularly is this so with ladies, who have found them inconveniently elevated irom t'he floor. Complaints have been, made to the Mayor, who has taken stops to rediess the grievances. The matter has been before the council, and now something has been done to alleviate hardships of the feminine part of audiences by lowering several hundred seats in ths large hall. The bulk of thete are in four rows at the front, and in the first row of the gallery. It is hoped that this measure of readjustment will induce people to come to the Town Hall who have actually stayed away on account of the high chairs. The Miramar Borough Council last evening authorised the fixing of the borough seal to an agreement between the council and the Wellington Gas Company in connection with the laying down of tram rails from the Miramar Wharf along certain streets to the company's property on Miramar-avenue. The comi pany will pay £600 towards the cost of the rails, and Id per ton for all goods j carried over the lines ; and will guarantee £100 per anmvci as a minimum toll in the event of the tolls at Id a ton not reaching that amount. The rights given to the company to use the tramway are not exclusive In the event of the company deciding to determine the use of the rails before £200 has beep paid in tolls this amount must be paid by the company. Palmerston papers, piqued at some of the comments on "Powelkaton," have turned upon their critics. "As for the hysteria," remarks the Manawatu Daily Times, "we question very much whether Wellington would have come as well out of the ordeal as Palmerston has, were there a man appearing and disappearing, fires occurring, and shootings taking place there. It is only the other day when the mere matter of the Prime Minister going to London to represent the Dominion threw a considerable section of Wellingtonians into a hysteria begotten, not of a Powelka, but of the fear of the Wellingtonians that they would lose some of their customary portions of public money by the shortening at once of the session and the Civil service." A Southland rabbit exporter in a large way of business, in the course of a letter on another matter, mentions to the local Times the effect of the "lockout" thus :—"lt: — "It is hard luck all the rabbit exporters have to cease operations in Southland when rabbits are at their best, owing to no tonnage being offered, tho works being blocked ito the door with lamb and mutton. We lose a lot of money through having men on for the season, and carts and horses being thrown out of work, besides having a lot of money out in rabbit traps that the trappers were going to pay for when they caught rabbits. It means a big lost to the country, as even if the skins fetched much in. the carcase they will not employ the same labour, such as cartage, box-making, timber, railage, etc. The mails by the wrecked steamer Pericles were fairly large. The greater number of bags contained letters sent across from New Zealand for transmission to South Africa. In all 27 bags and two parcel hampers went over from the Dominion, and were placed on the Pericles. The Sydney mail for South Africa was contained in 13 bags and two parcel hampers, and from Brisbane the vessel had seven bags of letters. There were no mails aboard the vessel for ports beyond South Africa. The letters were in ordinary canvas bags, and the packages were in hampers. According to a message received by Mr. Young (the Deputy-Postmaster-General) the whole of the mails were lost. The contents of the letters are, of course, not known to ihe postal officials ; but as the greater number of the letters and packages were registered, some indication is thus given that the contents were of considerable value. * The Arbitration Court was recently asked to* decide whether, under the carpenters and joiners' award, employers, in engaging carpenters and joiners to act as working foremen in charge of carpentering or joinery work, were bound to give preference to unionists. The court has now forwarded the following reply to the Inspector of Awards :—"lf: — "If a worker is really and substantially a foreman, then he is not subject to the provisions of the preference clause. The fact that he may occasionally do some carpenters' work would not bring him within the operation of the clause. If, however, the worker is engaged substantially in doing the work of a carpenter, although he may also supervise the work of others, then he is a journeyman, and subject to the award. In other words, a bona-fide foreman is not subject to the award, but the leading hand on a job is subject to it. Whether in any particular case a worker is to be treated as a foreman or leading hand depends on the circumstances ot the case." Inspector Paul, of the Health Department, reporting to the Timaru Borough Council, states that during the past eight weeks, eight cases of typhoid and two of diphtheria have been reported as existing within the Dorough. Fiva out of the eight cases have been traced to a source well outside the borough, and another case nas since turned out not to be typhoid, leaving anly two cases really connected with the borough. As the two cases of diphtheria and the two of typhoid were within the area yet to be connected with the new sewerage system, thej;e was little doubt that these cases were due to the insanitary state of the drainage in that portion ot the borough. A Tarata settlei* was at a recent sitting of the Magistrate's Court at Inglewood fined £2 and costs for failure to eradicate noxious weeds. The Elthajn Aijgus Keports thnt, addressing the Bench, the Inspector of Noxious Weeds paid : "It comes to this, sir, either the farmer or the blackberry is going to own Taranaki. If the berry gdts into the rough country it will take an enormous amount of labour to nradicate it." If lovers of Itnre Japanese Art will call at Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd., Lambton-quay, they will be shown some exquisite specimens, imported direct. — Adyt,