TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 22, 26 July 1910, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

THE TRAMWAYS BILL. OPPOSITION IN CHEISTCHURCH. [B* TELEGRAPH — SPECIAL TO THB POST.J CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The Tramways Bill does not seem to meet with approval in Christchurch. Mr. H. Pearce, chairman of the Christchurch Tramway Board, is. strongly opposed to it. A large portion of its provisions, he says, is covered by existing legislation, and the rest is very undesirable, from the Christchurch Tramway Board's point of view, at any rate. The proposal that a board should license motormen is unnecessary and absurd. The Christchurch Board already has very strict regulations as to the qualification of motormen. Mr. Pearce objects most strongly to the proposal that an Appeal Board should be appointed to deal with' complaints and grievances^ and he is convinced that on this question all members of the board agree with him. The board has a Staff Committee which attends to these affairs. If any employee is dissatisfied with a superior officer's decision he can appeal to the committee and nroduce evidence before it. If he ia dissatisfied still he can appeal to the whole board. "The Christchurch Tramway Board," said Mr. Pearce, "is a local body, or a. municiDal body, to use the proper term, ajid "its members have been elected by the ratepayers to conduct the tramway system. If there is a shortage we will have to meet it by rates. I cannot see why the Government should interfere between us and our employees any more than it interferes with the City Council, the Drainage Board, or any other municipal body. The Tramway Board has always got along well with ite employees. Ttiis is shown by tho fact that it is working now under an agreement which was come to by mutual arrangement without going to the Arbitration Court. It is felt that the Government is attempting to take important duties out of the hands of the board, which means really an attempt to take them out of the hands of the people. It seems to me to be an effort towards bringing about the centralisation of power in Wellington, and I will certainly oppose the proposal as strongly as I can." The Bill will be discussed by the board next Monday. A DOMINION MAGAZINE. [by telteghaph— special to thb *ost,] OHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Tentative arrangements are being made in Christchurch for the publication of a magazine devoted to general subjects. It is stated that a sum of something like £10,000 is behind the venture, and that' the promoters will make a. serious endeavour to develop the field that they believe should exist for a Dominion magazine. They are not dismayed by the gloomy record of past enterprises. NO ONE RESPONSIBLE. THE CASE OF GEORGINA AMBROSE. [B* TELEGRAPH— SPECIAL TO THE TOST.] CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Some discussion has arisen regarding the case of the aged woman Geoighia Ambrose, who died in a ramshackle building in St. Albans, under conditions of extraordinary filth and squalor. No ; authority admit* any responsibility in the matter. Dr. Finch, the District Health Officer, states that a case similar to that of Georgina Ambrose 'S known to exist in a country township in the northern part of the North Canterbury district, but so far the efforts made to get the occupant to go into a home have [ proved unsuccessful. All that can be ', done under the Act is to serve a nc-tice on the occupant of an insanitary dwelling, calling upon the occupant to put the dwelling in a. sanitary condition. If i this is not complied with the occupant can be summoned before a Magistiate and sentenced to imprisonment. This is the only method that can be us«d to induce people like Gtorgina Ambrose to go into institutions provided for them. I>HE3S ASSOCIATIONS CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC. CHRISTCHURCH, 25th July. The Board of Governors of Canterbury College to-day decided to ask the Government what financial assistance it would give towards .establishing a Confervatorium of Music in Christchurch, and to make an appeal to the public for funds. PALMERSTON HIGH SCHOOL. PALMERSTON N., 25th July. The Paimerslon High School Board to-night approved plans for a new high school building to reoiace that uuuftd down by Powelka. The plans are by Mr. Clere, architect, ol Wellington, and provide ior a bviek building containing nine classiooms (including scier.ee room) 24ft x 32ft, and other classrooms from 24ft x 22ft to 24ft x 24ft. In addition there are a. lavatory, storeroom, and offices, and it- ib piupoked to endeavour to include a tchool hall 30ft x 50ft, with the money made available by Government, us all accommodation possible is needed. The frontage is 150 ft and depth 70ft, and the material is to be brick.