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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24, 30 January 1911, Page 6

" There is no present intention o! having a.n opening ceremony in connection with the rew reservoir at Wainui-o-inata," said the Mayor (Mr. Wilford) to a Post reporter to-day. A meeting of Roman Catholics was held at Boulcott-st-reet last week, when the position regarding the municipal roll was fully explained, and those present were urged to put themselves on the roll. The resolutions passed at the meeting of delegates of local bodies held at Masterton on Friday, with reference to the improvement of the Wairarapa train service, will be laid before the Minister of Railways by deputation at halfpast 11 o'clock to-morrow morning. The triennial conference of the North Island Druids will be held in Auckland next month, commencing on the 6fch. About eighty delegates aa"e expected to be present. Among the business to com© up for consideration will be the. questions of sick pay and levies. Three hundred visitors attended the " at home " at Mahanga Bay given yesterday by the Garrison Artillery Territorials, No. 3 and No. 4 New Zealand Engineers. Afternoon tea was provided, a string band assisting m the runction, and the visitors were shown over the different instrument* belonging to the companies. At the last meeting of the Auckland City Council a letter was read from the Mount Roskill Road Board covering a resolution jn favour of town-planning and city building, suggesting a conference of local bodies in the neighbourhood of Auckland to consider the question, having in view a Greater Auckland to come. It was pointed out that nothing less than a comprehensive scheme to be controlled by a special boaird consisting of all the special qualifications required would be adequate to meet the necessities of the position. The Mayor Temarked that if such a conference was held and all local bodies— about 100 in number — sent representatives, a large gathering would be the result. He suggested that the matter be left in his hands to convene a meeting as suggested. This was agreed to. There was just one suggestion of a "breeze" at Saturday night's meeting of ratepayers ar> Eastbourne, and as it blew across the platform (where tho Mayor and councillors were seated) the hall was plunged into darkness. The gas light had been flickering loweir and lower aa Councillor Foley combated ths arguments of Councillor (Dr.) Mackenzie, who thought that the proposed scheme of drainage would not be favourable to the arrest of diseases. Then he made a remark which brought Councillor Mackenzie to his feet. " I rise to a point of order/ said the latter, as the gas light nearly went out. " Cqunciflor Foley has made an insinuation. He says I have been speaking in my own interests, and that the spread of fever would benefit me as a medical man. He says I have been speaking not for tho people, but for my own pocket. As a matter of fact, I have been speaking against my own interests. I have been speaking for the people as a whole — an medical men generally do." Peace was restored as the lights came up again. The loan proposals will bo submitted to a poll of ratepayers on 22nd February for alternative authority to i-a-ise a loa-n — (a) for the water scheme only ; or (b) for both the water and sewerage schemes. The annual report of the Wellington. Typographical Union contains the following paragraph : — "Your board, actting on the motion passed at the lasb half-yearly meeting that the City and Country Master Printers' Associations be supplied with a copy of Mr. ,D. M. Findlay's opinion, in which he stated that a journeyman compositor was entitled to full wages for any week notwithstanding that he may have lost through illness during such week, instructed the secretary to write to tho various associations to the effect that the union intended to enforce the rights of its members in accordance with the opinion. In acknowledging receipt of the letter, Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of the Wellington Master Printers' Association, wrote stating that the custom which had prevailed in the past in the matter of deductions for absence through sickness would bo continued, and that if tha union took action against any employer, the association would be compelled to approach the court, at the earliest possible moment, to have the right specifically provided in the award to deduct wages for absence from work through sickness. The matter of deductions for sickness has been mentioned at several subsequent meetings of the board, but so far nothing definite had been reported which would justify a case being stated for enforcement. The matter will receive further consideration in the near future." * As 'briefly reported, an outbreak of typhoid has occurred at the Maori pa at Petane, Hawkes Bay. Two children contracted the disease, and, on Dr. Bernau ordering their removal to the hospital, the relatives of the little ones refused to part with them. The father of the children called at the office of the Hawkes Bay County Council, and informed the clerk, Mr. A. H. Ferguson, that if the children were to dfe he would like them to die at the pa. On Thursday their temperature was 105 degrees, but later it fell to 104, and then to 103 degrees. The children, he said, wero in a tent, over which a fly had been placed, and were under the willows. The place was a cool one. A native woman and the wife of one of the settlers near by were nursing them. The sick ones were being fed on milk and barley water. The relations were following instructions given by Dr. Bernau. lie (the native) would come to the office again, when it was hoped the Health Department's officer would bo there, and they would go to the pa and see what it was advisable to do — to move tho patients to the hospital or arrange for treatment out there. The following telegram was sent by the clerk of the Hawkes Bay County Council to Dr. Frengley, District Health Officer of Wellington : — •"Dr. Bernan, of Napier, had two cases of typhoid fever at his consulting rooms to-day ; Maoris from Petane. ( Their relatives have taken the patients back to the pa, refusing to let them go to the hospital. Dr. Bernau considers it most necessary that the cases be taken to that building. Will you issue an order that the patients be removed to the Hospital, under section 33 of the Public Health Act, or come to Napier to deal with the matter?" Later an answer was received from the officer, stating that he feared a compulsory removal would be detrimental to the typhoid patients. An officer was being_ despatched to investigate the conditions under which the patients were being treated. Why fetter yourself with baggage when we ' check it free to your destination ? You've no bother. "Baggage arrives soon as you, and you pay only trifle for express. New Zealand Express Company, Ltd. — Advt. For the next few weeks two rival interests will occupy practically every household in the Empire City," viz., "Summer Holidays and Summer Sales. Even the mere man will be more or less affected thereby, while the ladies, of course, aro deeply concerned with both. The Sale that stands out above all others for tha value- and variety available will bo found at tho establishment of C. Smith, Ltd., Cuba-street. This houso has a great and woll-oarncd reputation for value, and two Special Lines of Sunshades now on offer at 2s lid and 4s lid will enhance- tho prostigo of tho store These poods cannot be desbribed, and they aro selling too fast 1 for any list to remain acctirats. See thoin 1 without delay.— Advt.