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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 5, 6 July 1910, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL, Interest in Parliament centred yesterday in the House of Representatives, where a good deal of interest was said about interference with police records at Christchurch, State banking, and Labour matters. In both Houses the Address-in-Reply debate "dragged its slow length along" with great dreariness. The Council rose early in the afternoon, and the Houfo went home tired before 11 o'clock. , Enquiries made by a representative of The Post indicate clearly that the defence forces are increasing. Including senior cadets, rifle clubs, and Territorials, there is a total enrolment of 22,700 in New Zealand, which marks an increase for the year of about 2000. Already several of the corps have reached the limit of their roll number, and the question of strengthening the various battalions will have to be considered shortly. ' Since compulsory training haa been mentioned there has been a steady increasei in the numbers joining the ranks, and for the last three or four years this increase has been most marked. It was never so great, even in the war boom time. The training (it is said by a competent officer) is much improved to what it was half a dozen years ago, and the same authority considers that the class of recruit now offering is excellent. In various times and places the volunteer system and its administrators have been warmly indicted, but facts and figures go a long way towards refuting the charges. ■fhe Marine Department has decided that it will offer no farther objection to the sailing of the schooner Jessie Niccol to Macquarie Island, in order to bring away the men employed in the oil industry there. Mr. Joseph Hatch, the owner of the vessel, represented that he was unable to secure a second mate holding a foreign certificate. The Minister for Marine, exercising the discretion given him under the Act of last session, has now agreed to allow the vessel to leave, Mr. Hatch having undertaken that Captain Harming, of the Bluff, who holds a Home-trade master's certificate, and has had extensive experience, shall be shipped as £>econd mate. At a special meeting of Ine Technical Education Board this morning, 't .vas decidpd to approve tbe altwsclons in the Bill to be presented to Parliament to enable the board to acquire the Wal-lace-street site. The board was desirous of obtaining the freehold of the site from the council, but this was opposed, and the alterations in the Bill consist of making it read that the land is to be leased instead of conveyed to the board. Mr. D. ji'Laren is .to [iresent the altered Bill for the approval of the City Council at a special meeting on Friday. Huckaback for waistcoats, in silk and wool mixtures, with stripes jn green, brown, fawn, grey, or navy blue, at 3s Ud ofiolt, Kirkcaldio And Qtatos, Ltd,