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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 111, 12 May 1911, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL Returns of income under the Land and Income Assessment Act muet be made on or before Ist June. For the quarter ended 31st March last £10,703 had been spent on the Hutt railway and road improvement. Sixty horses are being shipped on the Warrimoo for Sydney to-day hy Mr. Watts. Yesterday about fourteen wore embarked on tho Moeraki, which left for Melbourne and Southern ports. Some 800 cases of bananas and oranges — principally the latter fruit, wero unehipped from the Monowai to-day, ex Tallin©. The fruit did not open up in a very good condition, most of it being over -ripe. Purchase moneys paid by the Government for some estates acquired during the quarter ended 31&t March, were as follow :— Allanholm, £24,150 ; Rugged Ridges, £880; Aviemore, £950; and Drayton, £21,296. A. large gang of men is at present employed in widening Pine-avenue, Upper Hutt. Large trees have been cut down and the stumps are to be removed. Other general improvements to the thoroughfare are also being effected. A letter giving notice of the precautionary measures against plague (summarised, recently in The Post), soon to bo gazetted, has been received from the Health Department by the Miramar Borough Council. At its meeting last night the council decided to do all it could to help tho department. Correspondence classes conducted last year by the Post and Telegraph, Department for tuition of the officers in, general and technical subjects are being continued this year. The number of students enrolled to date is 125 for general subjects (senior Civil Service, etc.), and 121 for tuition in technical subjects (electricity and magnetism). In seconding the motion in favour oosf s Horn* Rule for Ireland at Palmerston North, Mr. Robert M'Nab said that when he lately visited Aldershot ho saw a regiment marching 'past, and General Smith-Dorrien told him they were the Irish regiment that had been granted the honour of being the first to enter Ladysmith. He asked what won them that honour, and tho General replied, "The number of their dead." Yet those soldiers had been, so far, refused the boon that had been readily granted South A.frica ( of the right of self -government in their own country. When on© considered these things it was wonderful to find the Irish so loyal while getting nothing 'for their loyalty. _ Some time ago a deputation representing the Island Bay Volunteer Fire Brigade waited on the Mayor (Mr. T. M. Wiltord), and asked, among other thinge, for a new fire bell. Thou- present- one \was cracked. The City Council gaveauthority/ and recently the old bell was brought into town and taken to the foundry of Messrs. Johns, Wallace, and Muir, of Tory-street, to be recast. This le one of the most difficult operations in foundry work on account of the shape of a bell, but the founders were very successful in their attempt. Mr. Maughan Barnett, Municipal Organist, made an inspection in company with Superintendent O'Brien of the Central Fir© Brigade. He tested the bell and pronounced tho tone excellent. It is now duly installed at the fir© station at Island Bay. The workers' ticket system, introduced on tho city tramways on Monday last, has resulted, in a consi-derable increase in traffic about 7.30 a.m., but in tho afternoon the congestion which used to be a feature of the five o'clock-rush workers' cars has been much relaxed. The traffic is now better distributed. On Monday 1222 tickets were sold, representing a concession of £11 7s 6d; on Tuesday 1349, equal to £12 8s 2d; and on Wednesday the number rose to 1400, corresponding to £16 9s in. concessions. This does not mean that tho Tramway Department is losing so much revenue. In fact, there may- be a gain, thougli it is too early to decide either way. Still, there has been an undoubted stimulus to patronage of the cars in the morning, and the benefit to revenue and workers may be mutual, v For some years now the Miramar Borough Council Has held its meetings in an office in the city. This practice gives ratepayers little chance of attending and keeping a. watchful eye on their representatives in meeting assembled. Accordingly a committee was recently set np to report on tho question of holding meetings in the borough. Assuming, the committee reporfced_ at, a meeting of the council last evoning, that it was essential that the place of meeting should be on the tram line, the choice of locality was narrowed down to the Seatoun or Miramar terminus. As far as the office staff was concerned, it was stated that it was immaterial which locality was chosen. After a brief discussion, however, a proposal to hold the meetings in the borough was defeated, several councillors stating that no desire for , a change had been expressed, and that it was doubtful whether the ratepayers would attend tho meetings even if a change was decided upon. At Oamaru the Minister for Railways was met by the Hons. George Jones and T. Y. Duncan. Tho latter introduced some members of the farming community, who were in the unfortunate position of having no feed for their stock, and were desirous of taking advantage of the department's concession of free railage, about which a good deal of uncertainty has existed. Replying to his interviewers, the Minister stated that each application would require to be backed up by a statutory declaration that the case was a bona-fide one for relief, wh&n free railage would be granted. Replying to a direct question as to whom the application should be made, the Minister replied : "To the local stationmaster; all statitmmasters have been furnished with the necessary instructions." The Minister Btrongly deprecated the abuse of a somewhat similar concession granted during a previous period of drought. " Anybody found abusing the privilege on this occasion,'* said Mr. Millar, "will go up as high as ever the law will allow." The Acting Postmaster-General has forbidden registration, forwarding, or delivery by the Post Office of correspondence with Barnett and Grant, Christchurch, Frank Bunyan } Christchurch, and Peter Grant, Christchurch. A list of those whose names appear on the Midwives' Register of New Zealand is gazetted this week. You shifted our furniture splendidly. That's what people say to us continually. You'll be equally delighted witli our care, skill, and reasonable charges if you employ us. The New Zealand Express Company, Ltd. — Advb. 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