MINING COMMISSION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25, 29 July 1911, Page 6

MINING COMMISSION.

ITS PERSONNEL. The Commission to enquire into the ventilation and methods of working in the coal and gold mines of New Zealand will commence its sittings on 3rd Aug' Ust, It is < Constituted as follows s— Mr. Evans, Stipendiary Magistrate, Nelson (chairman), Messrs. F. Reed (Engineer for Mines), N. D. Cochrane (Mining Engineer), G. Fletcher (late mine manager for the Westport Coal Company's Miller ton Mines), Molyneaux (manager of the Burwood Reefs Mine), Perry (president of the Miners' Union, Waihi), 1 J. D. Dawgray (miner, Millerton).

Irish Nationalist Home Rule funds will receive some £9,600 as New Zealand's contribution. Mr. Martin Kennedy, treasurer of the fund, cabled £4500 yesterday to Mr, John Redmond, in addition to £4000 already remitted. T&ei'e is yefc about £1000 to come in. In connection with the Exhibition Art Gallery, it is requested that the lenders of curios will call for them on Monday. The pictures that were so kindly lent will be delivered at the houses of owners on Tuesday. t After many delays and much negotiation, the Vexed question of the Sil* verskeam School has been settled. Mr. T. M. "Wilford interviewed the secretary of the Education Board yesterday, and was informed that the matter had been arranged, and that the Silverstream people Would now hav-e an area for a school site of two acres between thei road and railway at Hetetaunga, and two and three-quarter acres across the railway. The original idea was to allocate only hnlf an acre in all. The CoiiTt of Appeal case, Mewhin■ney v. Mewhinney, is set down for hearing on Monday. Mrs. E. Schutz will lecture at -New Century Hall, Kent-terrace, to-morrow, at, t p.m. • Mr, B. Ellis, ladies' and gentlemen's tailor, has removed to mofo- extensive premises in Baker's Buildings, opposite Union Bank, where he has fitted up special rooms for fitting on costumes. Mr. Ellis lias been in business in Wellington for tre las* ten years as a ladies' tailor, and will iiow combine both branches of his trade. Mi 1 . Newton Jones, who is to conduct a mission to Sunday schools in September, will be tho guest of Captain Blackburne during Ins stay in Wellington. Mr. Victor Jones, who ib travelling with his father as leader of the singing, will stay with Mr. T. £). Cofkill,