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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. <«B . At about 3.20 this morning a sharp earthquake chock was felt in Wellington, apparently travelling from west to east. It was heralded by the usual rumbling and rushing Bound, as of a sudden change of wind, and two shakes immediately followed. The Postal authorities advise that the s,s. Maheno which sailed from Sydney at noon on the sth instant for Auckland has on board a-n Australian mail, aleo the English mail via Suez. The Wellington portion should arrive here by Main Trunk on Monday next. Customs revenue for the week ending to-day totalled £23,144 18s ?d. Beer duty for the week was £226 .lOsu For the corresponding week of last year the figures were : Customs £17,314 5s 7d) beer duty £252 2s Bd. Sharks are apparently very numerous round about Palliser Bay. Trawling in that vicinity this week the Nora Niven captured between 40 and 50 of the species— all between Bft- and 9ft long. At the 1 meeting of the Wellington I Teachers' Institute last* night, Mr. E. Howell, instructor for the Wellington centre in woodwork, read a paper on "Manual Training in Public' Schools." Miss Freeman wrote suggesting the grouping of the midwinter and Coronation holidays. The matter wae left in the hands of the ohaiTman and secretary to confer with the board. From to-day the assistants employed in grocers' shops will cease work at 6 p.m. on four days of the week and at 9 p.m. on one 'day. These hours are prescribed under the amendment to the Shops and Offices Act passed last session. There' is no alteration in the weekly half-holiday. The hours men- | tioned will also have to be observed by assistants in fruiterers' or ' other shops dealing in groceries. Being convinced that without unanimity on the board it would be useless to approach ratepayers for a loan for the purpose of installing a tramway system in the Hutt Valley, Mr. Robert Stevens, a member of the Hutt Valley Tramway Board, has sent in his resignation. In view of this, and also of Mr. Hawthorn's attitude of opposition, a meeting of the board is to he fteld shortly, and the whole question will be again gone fchrough. In a letter which appeared in the Post of Thursday last, signed "Not a Corporation Labourer," the statement was made that ' linesmen, employed by the City Electric Lighting Department were paid only Is l£d per hour, or £2 9s a 'week. Tliia i» absolutely denied by the Electrical Engineer, who this morning allowed a Post representative to look through the wages-sheet of the department. The facts are these. Three leading linesmen get Is 5d an hour, and their earning for the week in question were £3 3s 9d, £3 3s 9d, and £3 4s 8d respectively. There are three or four men at le 3d an hour, erdinary linesmen these, getting the award wages. Their weekly wages ranged from £2 16s 3d to £3 Is 9d. Lastly, there aro a number of linesmen's labourers, or assistants, who are paid at a rate of Is l£d an i hour. The department has the power I under the award of classifying these men a\ general labourers, and paying them accordingly. The lowest weekly wage recei\ ed by any one of these men was £2 3s 7d, for 38 hours' work only. He took a day off voluntarily. The wages of the others were : £2 10s 8d (2), £2 12s Id (2), £2 14s lid, and £2 lls sd. It may be added that men doing similar work in Dunedin are paid only Is an hour. | Phoenix mufflers, in white, sky, grey, emerald, amethyst, aeroplane," navy, brown, vieux rose, syringa, heliotrope, and marono, at 3s 6d each. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd.— Advt*