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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25, 29 July 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. j The Evening Post Sports Edition should be particularly interesting this evening, Th» afternoon the world's champion sculler, Richard Anwt, is to measuri! sculls with his doughty challenger, Harry Psarce, on the Patra« matta, and, as the championship of tine world is at stake, fchew is certain to be a lot of interest in the result. The cable reports state both men are fts fit as hands can make them, and -tbe weather condition^ almost ideal. The Sport* Edition this evening will con» tarn, beside* th» result of the race, in* temting particular* of the champion and h» challenger and of their work and Me»vds. The race it timed to start at 4 o'clock. In addition to the above, there will be complete reports of the afternoon's gam«u, special attention being paid to the Rugby nanies St. Ja'tnes v. Athletic and Ponftke v. S&ufchern. Th«w «hottld provide uonw high-class football. On Monday next the Post and T*le* graph Department will introduce at Wei* lington, by way of trial, tt new form and envelope combined ior received telegrame. • This ferity which is folded by an ingenious machine, beam on the face of it, just above the addrws, the words "New Zealand telegraphic message." The form ie closed at the back by two gummed and perforated tabs. On the tuba are printed the word* "New Zealand telegraphic message," and to open the form the ends should be separated at the perforations. Increasing imports at the mom«ht have no terrors for Mr. J, R, Blair, sometime chairman of the Bank of New Zealand. Speaking a« chairman of the Wellington Investment, Trustee, and Agency Company last evening, Mr. Blair t remarked that the country had practically recovered from the recent commercial depnesskm, hence hp did nob attath co much importance as did some people to the growth of import*. The fact was, stocks had been allowed to ntn very low after a cessation, or. rather, heavy and sodden restriction of importations. On the turn of the tide tlwee stocks hakirally had to be made tip and increased, and they would go on increasing until they had Reached their level. Taking the highest pdnt and the lowest point together and striking the happy medium wottld enable one to come to a clearer und«*tanding of the position. The can*e of the increase in the import* was, in his view, ttnqvtte- , tionably doe to th© fact that stock* had been allowed to become depleted, In face of ihe atatemeht made by the late Mayor of ChriAtchurch on Wed. tiesday that he would rather the pro* poeal were not carried, a large number of ratepayers ataolnteiy refused to go to the polls on Thnraday in connection with the big road scheme, and generally very little interest was displayed (states the Chrisffelntrch papers). It wae esti« mated that the number of electors on the roil was from 10,000 to 12,000, but only 2704 votes were cast, inclnding 36 informal. The loan proposal was defeated' at all the booth*, and in ths aggregate by 840 votes. At tne suggestion of Mr. J. P. Lake, M.P., the Technical Education Board <k-> cided last n/ght to agree to a proposal emanating from the Petone Technical School to hold a conference on the <ju«^ tfon of whether apprentices having iwo years* training at either school Bhould be paid an extra weekly wage in th« last two years of their apprenticeship. Mr. Ltike thought that both the employers and the Trades and Labour Council ihonld be represented. The object of the Instructor, said Mr. W. S. La Trobe, director, was not to teach the boys what would be of immediate value, but what would make them efficient workmen in the future. "You must not give the boys the idea that they will become engineers after having had two or three yeavs in the Technical Schoul," declared Mr. lb. Robertson. "They mnst have at leaßb five years in a workshop." Labouring (as they believe) under' disabilities wmch amount almost to hard' ship, the boys of Eastbourne have petitioned the Defence Department against their medical examination for military purposes being held at Lower Hutt. It is pointed out tnat there are no means of communication between Eastbourne and the Htitt, and there ia no other wrj of getting there except by walking, the diglanre being from eight to nine miles. The only other alternative h for them lo gt> to weilingajn by steamer nt 6 p.m., *nd take train to the Hntt. .Then there in the retain, There is no way 0! »t- [ ting home th* same ntght, The petition--ers, being either schoolboys op non-wsgp-ramers, are, it ia awrrwi, not in A, posi» tfon In nffwd the KUrerrsr-— a, matter of 10s. The department is n«ked to- arrange matters so that the boys may be examined, at Eastbotitne, and also underKO their training there At Kirkcaldio's great winter «ale. nn Monday, gennino Wotoey Vlnnnel Hhui: Blouses, in light <md dark nli\ines, «W. Ml 9& going, »i $c lid wch,-