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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 137, 13 June 1910, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL, The English mails per Victoria, which arrived at Auckland at midnight last night, will arrive in Wellington by the Main Trunk train to-morrow afternoon. His Honour the Chief Justice will sit in Chambers at 10.30 a.m. to-morrow. It was suggested to the Minister of Railways by an Auckland suburban deputation that in future railway stations should bo constructed of brick instead of in wood. In replying, Mr. Millar said that a new form of ferro-con-crete, which was about 12^ per cent, cheaper than either wood or brick, was under the consideration of tho department. In his address to the Hutt ratepayers on Saturday evening regarding the tramway loan proposals, the chairman of the Tramway Board (Mr. J. W. M'Ewan) took the opportunity to deny the truth of a certain statemiuit that was being circulated in some quarters of the district — particularly in Petone. The rumour was, he said, that members of the board were being paid for their services. "I wish to-night," he explained, "to give that a clean and unqualified denial — far from being paid we have been at considerable personal self-sacrifice in connection with the movement." (Applause.) A Dunedin resident, a seaman, who has just returned to New Zealand after a voyage- to England and back, which included a nine months' stay in London, called at the Christchurch Press offiVe last week to express his appreciation and admiration of the High Commisbioner's office and staff. Finding himself stranded and penniless, he explained the circumstances to the chief clerk at the office, and was granted a loan of £3 without security, and simply on his undertaking to repay. That enabled him to tide over a period of acute difficulty, and he is now looking forward to the time when he will be in a position to return the three sovereigns to the friendly lender. A request that provision be made for sending strawberries to Wellington from Auckland by the Main Trunk express was made to the Minister of Railways (Hon. J. A. Millar) in Auckland. Mr. Alex;. Alison introduced the deputation. Mr. Tonar explained that it was impossible to send the strawberries by the goods train, which ran at hours necessitating a delay of 12 hours at each end. i'ne Minister was asked to provide a van, or half a van, two or three days a week. Mr. Millar said that last year he offered the growers a van at £22, which just about covered the cost of haulage, and this was the most that he could give them. He would like to do what they asked, both for their sakes and for that of the people of Wellington, but he did not think he would be able to alter his previous decision on the subject. He promised, however, to obtain another report on the matter. "The Health Department brought the case forward that the general public might know its duty in regard to the Act," said Sub-Inspector Norwood, at the Magistrate's Court to-day, when Henry James Meyer pleaded guilty to a breach of the Public Health Act. The Suo-Inspector outlined the case. Defendant's wife, while suffering from diphtheria, was conveyed to the hospital in a cab, without the driver of the vehicle being warned that he was carrying a passenger suffering from an infectious disease. Subsequently the inspector notified the cabman, and the cab was fumigated. The Health Department asked for only the nominal penalty, as defendant was apparently ignorant of the law. Defendant was liable to a fine of £10. Him Worship pointed out the necessity for people to observe the law in this comiection. The matter touched the public health. When persons suffering from infectious disease were carried in public vehicles, it was necessary that those vehicles should be afterwards fumigated, otherwise the health of the general public was endangered. His Worship (Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.), imposed a fine of 10s, with costs, 7s. Ladies' black umbrellas, with Fox's nelal frames and solid silver knob handles, useful just now, at 14s 6d and 16s >6d each.— Krrkcaldie and Stains, Ltd.— Advt.