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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1911, Page 4

LOCAL km GENERAL, » New Zealand architects are being invited by_ the Minister of Public Works co submit' competitive designs for the proposed new Parliament Buildings to be erected in. Wellington. Four premiums are being offered for the best designs— £looo for the first, £500 for the second, £300 for the third, and £200 for the fourth. Site plans and conditions are available ab the Public Works offices in the four centres. Advice has been received by the Minister for Commerce from the director of army contracts that tenders for the supply of preserved meat to the War Office will close on 3id April. ' The amount of Customs revenue collected at Wellington during this week was £21,006 13s Bd, as against £9334 16s for the corresponding week of 1910. Beer duty amounted to £240 7s. M. E. Champion, the holder of the majority of New Zealand swimming championships, was asked recently by a deputation of Wellington and Canterbury swimmers to allow himself to be nominated for the Festival of Empire Sports. He has now decided to decline the invitation, telegraphs our Auckland correspondent. Officers commanding districts are to go to the camp of instruction at Tauherenikau on 10th March. The idea is to gain absolute uniformity in regard to the Territorial scheme, and when they leave the camp at the end of March the registration under the system- will commence. All possible instruction is to be imparted, and the "carrying out of the details will bo in their hands. The efforts of the Wellington Woollen Company to obtain additional female labour have not been successful, and the directors of similar concerns in the South Island report a like experiment. One big mill in the Soulh, finding it impossible to obtain more tailore&ses in New Zealand, advertised for women in Australia to pay the ppsaages of suitable applicants, but^ failed to get the labour it required. It is the intention of Councillor Hindmarsh to movs as follows at the meeting of the City Council next Thursday : — "That considering that nearly £2000 a year can be made out of letting spaces on and in tramcars tor advertising, the light to place neat and suitable advertisements in the cars be sold or let, and that the net profits accruing to the council therefrom be ear-marked as an excess fund for improving the Town Belt, or in forming recreation grounds. '' Councillor Hindmarsh will also move at the same meeting :— "That fire alarms connected with the Adelaide-road fire station be forthwith installed in the private houses of seven firemen— members of the Island Bay Volunteer Firs Brigade. The flaxmillera, farmers, and others in the Shannon, Tokomaru, and Lintou districts are stated to oe very keen on a scheme for the generation of electric power by the harnessing of the Tokomaru or Mangahao Elvers, or both, for driving the flaxmills and other machinery in that portion of the Dominion. \ It seems that the late Mr. P. S. Hay Aiade an inspection of the rivers' some years ago, and was very favourably impressed with their suitability for waterpower purposes. The Mangahao River is on the other side of the main Tararua Range, which, however, is only a low ridgo at a point behind Shannon. Some time back the people of • the localities named invited Mr. W. 11. Field, M.P., to accompany a party to visit and inspect both rivers. Mr. Field is proceeding to Shannon this afternoon for this purpose. The party leaves Shannon to-morrow morning. The Dominion Velveteen, 24 inches wide, m a nice soft finish for costumes, in about thirty different shades, at Is lid to 6s 6d. Kirkcaldio and Stains, Ltd.— Advfc