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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1911, Page 4

The Minister of Railways has intimated to Mr. W. H. Field, M.P., thati he will accede to the request of the| people of Pukerua, ma-da by a deputation recently, lor a siding at their i,ta-> tion on the terms they offered, viz., to I provide half the cost up to £75, It was pointed out by the deputation that tho place is a growing one, and the want of a siding has occasioned very serious inconvenience and expense in getting building material and other goods toj Pukerua. During the month of March the estates; of forty-three deceased persons ,werej placed under the charge of the Publia Trustee. Artisans and labourers to the numbel( of 6440 were employed under the Publio Works Department during the month of; February. , Of this number 3601 were* engaged on railway work, and 2839 om roads. Hop-picking ln> the Nelson district IS gearing completion, and the crop haa oeen much better than was anticipated. Prices havo been very good — from isi to Is 2d per_ Ib — and it is stated growi era will receive handsome i-eturns. During the month of March the ]vat bour Department's bureau in this cifcyl found employment or otherwise assisted,' 90 married and 119 single men, with 299 dependents. Of this total 150 were sent to private employment and 59 toj public works. Plentiful orders have been received aIJ the Greymouth sawmills from Austrai lia, for both red and white pine, and as a result the sawmilling industry thero is in a very flourishing condition, and is likely to continue so for some con« siderablo period. The Thames Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers-, and the Dun-, edin Performing Musicians' Union have* been registered under the Industrial Con-t cihation and Arbitration, Act. The regie* tration of the "Waikato Coal-mince Union hae been cancelled. The annual meeting and conference o£ delegates to the New Zealand Referees* Association, held in the Town Hall yesterday, lasted from 10 a.m. till 8.30 p.m. To-night the delegates will bei entertained at a banquet by the Well lington Association. The fieezing works at Timaru ar<* very busy, and it is as much as they] can do to deal with the large number of animals that are arriving to' brf slaughtered. The season is likely ta exceed even that of last year, whicbj was a record one for that district. The following are gazetted officiating ministers under the Marriage Act •— < Revs. C. R. Allen, C. J. Bush-King, T. A. M. Campbell, E. D. Evans, P. Jones, E. J. Neale, H. Pepper, and H. G. Rosher, M.A. (Church of England), Rev, F. R. Jeffreys (Presbyterian), Rev J. W. Burton (Methodist), and Mr. H. Powell (Brethren). The member for Otaki (Mr. W. ff. Field, M.P.), has been urging on thel Minister of Agriculture the need fon more rabbit and noxious weed inspection in his district. The Minister now; writes that additional inspectors aro to, be appointed, and that in the readjust-, ment of districts that will take place the claims of the Otaki district will receive full consideration. Considering conditions all round, thd f aiming community of North Otago will doubtless be right in asserting that, for those depending for a living on thel land, this year has been the most N disastrous within the memory of those who can look the farthest back (reports tha Labour Department's agent in Oamaru). Until about a month ago, the) one hope of the season, to the farmer, lay in the potato crop, which has now; been more than half destroyed by, tllei potato grub. Under the provisions of the Kaip.poJ Reserve Act, 1910, a commission hasl been set up to enquire into and report! upon the circumstances connected with) the dispositions by will of various subdivisions of the block of land situated! in the Canterbury district known as the Kaiapoi reserve, and subseqventi dealings therewith, and the expediency of validating all or any of such wills, and all or any of the dispositions nmdei thereby. The commissioner appointed,. Judge Rawson, of the Native Land' Gourt, will open the enquiry at Kaiapoi on Tuesday, the 25th met. , Rente charged in the four oentree o£ the Dominion for houses of four to seven rooms, within a twe-mile radius of the Post Office, are set out in the Labour, Journal as f oUowe : — Four rooms: Auckland, 9e to 13b per week; WeUinglon^ 12s 6d to 20s ; Christchurch, 9s to 14s ;; Dunedin, 7s to 12s 6d. Five rooms r Auckland 12s to 18fi ; Wellington, 15s to 2& 6d; Christehruch, 14e to 16s;; Dunedin, 10s to 15s. Six rooms: Aickland, 20s to 255; Wellington 18s tq 25a ; Christehruch, 16s to 20e j Dunedin,, 12s 6d to 20s. Seven rooms : Auckland, 20s to 30s; Wellington, 20s to 27s 6d jj Christchurch 20s upwards j Dunedin, 15s to 22s 6d. A somewhat novel proposal was made by Mr. R. J. Southgate at a meeting 1 of .the Hutt Tramways Board on Thursday_ night. He had been criticising the action of Mr. J. T. Hawthorn, a fellowmeniber, in announcing that he intended! to oppose, both publicly, and privately, the board's scheme to raise £65,000, and added :—"lt: — "It makes a man tired of belonging to public bodies when you find some of them taking certain action. There ought to be some Act o£ Parliament to make every local body close three months before an election." 1 Then Mr. Baldwin : "I object, sir, la your last remark. It is personal. I am the only member of the board 'announced' for the election (the Hutb Mayoralty), and if you mean to "' Members (significantly) : "You don'ti know much. There is another (a can-i didate) on this board !" Mr. Baldwin ; "Well, it's the first time I knew it.. Who is it?" The question was noti answered, and the incident then closed."A bank note should last six months from the date of issue, but hundreds of them do not last a month," said a bank! official recently when questioned by a, Lyttelton Times representative on the matter of defaced and defacing banknotes. The official added that the defacing of notes had become a serious matter. It was an offence under tha Banking Act liable to a severe penalty. "In our own office," said tho gentlaman interviewed, "we have to withdraw 3000 notes from circulation every six weeks, cancel them, and have them taken off the register, and destroy<d." j The Times representative inspected a pile of notes on which were the^ regret of the last owner at parting with the notes. Some samples : "Good-bye, good-bye," "Bills, bills, bills.." "Ta-ta, my moneykin," "Break the news to mother," "On a moral which ran,'*' "Fare thee well, my Cleopatra," "We parted friends," "Good-bye," "My last and only, "Best wishes," "Please return; reward." The most objectionable of the disfigurements, it was stated, was the practice of tradesmen who use rubber stamps to affix their trade names on the back of notes for advertisement purposes. "One of theso days they will get an advertisement which they apparently do not at present anticipate," added, the official. "Conscience-money" to the amount of £1 has been forwarded to the Ministen of Railways by some penson unknown. Ladies' black glace Laugtry evening shoes, round loes. Made of the very best glace kid, and hand sewn, at 21a 6d a pair. "Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd, -Advt.