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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1911, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL, ■>■ The Savings Bank, transactions for the December quarter of last year aregazetted. The deposits totalled £2,685,567, as against £2,283,075 for the December quarter of 1909, and the amount of withdrawals was £2,407,201, as against £2,252,673 for the December quarter, 1909._ Thus the excess of del osits over withdrawals last quarter was £.?81,365, as compared with £30,401 for the December quarter of 1909. Hie Excellency tho Governor will be present at the Maeterton A. aud P. Association^ chow on 14th and 15th FebI Tuary. A proposal from the executive of the Trades and Labour Council in Dimedin to join in making a presentation to Mr. E Tregear, Secretary of Labour, who is retiring, was warmly taken upby the Wellington Council last evening.' It has been suggested that an album containing the portraits of the presidents and secretaries of the various councils, and, portraits of the presidents and secretaries of individual subscribing unions, should appeal' on the pages of the album, I which should also contain pictures of | beautiful scenery selected fiom various parts of Nbav Zealand. | Before Mr. W. G. EiddelJ, S.M., at I the Magistrate's Court to-day, James Mexted denied having cruelly illtreated twslvo ducks and seventeen fowls by confining them in such a manner as to cause suffering and pain. Evidence was given by Inspector Seed that on Sunday, the 16th December, he stopped defendant's cart in Courtenay-plaoe to examine the boxes in which the poultry was being carried. He found seventeen largo fowls in a box 2ft 3in long, 22in wide, and 13£ in deep. They could^ not stand up, and were in a state of suffocation; one to be nearly dead. The- ducks were crowded in two kerosene cases, 19£ in long. Win deep, and lOin wide. At least twice as many birds were in each case as there should have been for air-spacet alone. The poultry was being brought into town irom a place near Tawa Flat. Defendant said that the birds were in the cases only for an hour and a half; the ducks were very small, while the fowls were not large , he merely put them into the box until they could be freed at the larger coops in town. He did not generally tieat poultry like that, however. Efe admitted that it was a very hot day. Mexted was convicted and fined £2, with court costs 9s, in default ordered to undergo- forty-eight hours' detention. Mr. WeTDb appeared for the S.P.CA. On the motion of Councilloi John Smith, at the City Council last evening, it was. decided to take steps to get Mr. Minin'e, caretaker of the Lyafi Bay bgach 4 gazetted, ac a jspecial cggstablej.