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

During the quarter just ended there were eleven fresh bankruptcies in the Palmerston district. They were all of a minor nature. Before the Court' of Appeal to-day. Mr. C. P. Skerrett, K.C., asked for leave to set down two cases on the appeal list. The cases referred to were the Manawatu Water Supply Board v. the Attorney-General, and Wade v. Hardley, an Auckland case affecting Wade's patent. Leave was granted. "The smallness of the ship continues to be very much felt," Bays the Minister of Marine, referring to the Amokura in his annual report. "A shore depot or a stationary vessel for winter quarters seems to be the only remedy for this. It is intended that the vessel shall continue to visit the outlying islands so as to give the Hinemoa more time to do the increasing lighthouse and buoy and beacon work. . . The ship is full, ami there are several boys waiting for admission when vacancies arise. Unless arrangements can be made for the boys to attend school on shore while the vessel is in harbour during the winter the standard of education required of applicants fqr admission might be raised, so as to give them a fair chance of advancing themselves after they leave the ship. Dealing with the Bubject of fifiherie* m his annual report, the Minister of Marine states that a careful examination of the oyster beds in the Hauraki Gulf Bay of Islands, Whangarei Harbour, and Kaipara Harbour, which has been made by Mr. Ayson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, and the local inspector, shows that it is necessary that they should have a rest this year. Most of them have not properly recovered from the depletion which took place under the old system of picking. There are, however, very large numbers of oysters three years old and .under, and it is considered that after this year there will be sufficient to enable them to be picked and sold every season. Continuing, the Minister states that the number of fishing boats registered in the Dominion is 1299, and licensed 1246. Nothing has yet been done to make it compulsory on boat owners and fish curers to furnish returns of fish caught and cured. 'I would again recommend," he says, "that the necessary regulations be made, so as to enable the department to obtain reliable statistics." Some interesting remarks on the subject of finger-prints were made by the Commissioner of Police in his annual report. On the 31st March last the finger-print collection consisted of the impressions of 9919 offenders. During the year 140 offenders, whose antecedents were unknown to the police of the districts in which they were in custody, were, by means of their finger impressions, identified as previously convicted persons. Finger-prints of persons in custody here have been identified in each of the Australian States, in Capetown, London, and Denmark, as those persona previously convicted in those places; while prints of persons in custody in the various States of Australia and South Africa have been identified here as those of persona previously convicted in New Zealand. The report goes on to say that as an instance of the practical assiffance the branch is to the general police, a series of burglaries took place in Wellington during the latter part of last year, and from finger-prints left behind by the offenders it was clearly demonstrated that the same persons were responsible for the whole of the burglanes, thus narrowing the scope of th« enquiry. The offenders were subsequently arrested and convicted. Messrs. Craig and Co., Mannersstreet, have just landed a consignment of Royal Poland Art China, which is now on view in their showrooms. This choice collection of vases is beautifully painted, and each' piece is stamped, a* a guarantee of genuineness. A range of English China teasets — quite a novelty in this line — is also on view. Visitors should make a call at Craig's and - see these novelties. — Advt.