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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 26, 31 July 1911, Page 6

In rftfßrence to i\n «ttggrstion before th« Oif»y Cotfftcil on Thursday night to fix A tariff for taxi-cab fares "Fair Play" writes asking ho* the Mayor and council ere going to do it. He remark* that Wellington i» a l6ng way behind citi« "on tho other Pid«. ' in ftllowing taxi-cflbs license to ply for hir« without insisting oil them being fitted with rcgi9> tering taximclcw. "Fflif Play" pointa out Ui«t a tariff fixed by the council dots no 6 pi'«v&nt hori* cabs from over* changing. "lyet iw hftvi tftximeters," he rays, "bo that we can sec what we have te pay at the end of the jonnrey. 1 have tiddfeti in a taxi to Newtown, when the* cars were fitted with meters h«re end have paid \villiftgly the fftW accotding to lb* iegi?te!', h 3d, but 1 h«V£ cofne over the same dist&hce with cabs and taxis without meters and been charged ss, es, 7s 6d and Be, and orte car had live <;heek to deinftnd 10?. The taxi»cab bti&iness should b«« controlled *# the police, a* it ia in Txaiddn. If a pwicemun gees a taxi-cab passing with. h fftrs ht rmd the flag np, fo takes the rutmber. The driver ie Mimmofieed and his hcen-M ettdorsed. This is th« Only way th* public can get fair play. ' Lyons and Co. write ott th« sam« P ubject, submitting their tariff tot- public motor cars, which they clftim is rro higher than that of horse cabs—that iff, 1* « mrte, exclttsi^ of ttinft oi-det*^ tioft of car. T v? nm f v *' te \ te ,*jftg & ftpell 6f vt»i ««f f complaining oi ftte shoftagte o? water for mining pnrpow*. . Easiness ift.iectten properly fs t^y active m invCTcargifi eti the pte&rtt timX Agent* report record foaling* f OT the month of July, Ohrretchwfch pftp«» hote that very* niuriactofy 'ptmm is being made with the movement {or the establishment of s. Seßtften's Institute &t Lyttelton. v A requisition is (states ill© Southland Times) being, circulated calling tt»<tn Mr, Jfrhft Hamilton, of WintoTi, v «ont«t the Awirwa mi agßimft Sir Joseph ward ftt lh* comtng election, Mr, Ham. ilton has lived at Winton for ft number of yeftrs, and lift* been brought before the public through hie connection with c&tmty coiiftuil matter*, It is «ftfa»u«d that the etm grub hw destroyed thotwanns of poimd*' worth of grass and oftte on the light £1* .» n « th S 1 . the *NgH*tft River, Cunterbitfy. during the \m twelve ' months. Yet the grub ie ftill very hnn« gity for seeordmg to the Timarn Herskl, it » how netually uttwking voodea skkes in the fences, In Inwraagii] lth© medical «xeisisn*m fot the Defence Forces have put through over 700 Senior Cadets, ft bout 4 per cent, of whom have been rejected. Dr. Oresg, in conrcrsstion with a Southland Km rfepfesentative. B teted | that the proportiok witn i dw teeth rwnftiHs «« lsrg« as ever, flMin this connection he mentioned th-at dtmng the South African eMnbdgn thow first to suffer from typhoid were the men whose teeUi wefe hot in gosd eonditkm. At the Ma.ng6weka Mtmjfetrate's Court recently ft man nnmA Jm«ph PHtam was ehftrged with killing and aellhtg }m» potted -and native ga-me without mkitig wit « heeMe, There were Bix aeija^'ate ch«*g€B, da,khg Iwtween 2nd and 19th July, wid m this time accused had supplied & Wellington dealer with two pheasants, twenty hares* seventy.fly© quajl, and 176 native pigeons. Tlw mftgmtrßte commented strongly on this whplesAlft «nd illegal slaughter o{ came, and inflicted fln« 8 tolftlliug £11 4«. Capfca.in W. K. Ttirnef. of Nelpon, re. oently informed a Mail reporter that hs first mm Pefortts Jack, "the fteh pilot." for fey years ago. At (hut time Cepiai'n Turner v«s the master of a cutter called' wie SottUtem Cross, w hfch vfto & regular trader to the Sound. One day, when on hh vres to M&naro& tor wool, variety to the monotony w«* afforded, by trre »w. pe*raiice of a big fish. At the time the cutter w><> oft Harding Point, ai tho northWest entrance to Pelwus Sound, and the stranger cftmb up rih\ lay alohgside the cutter. Captain Turner says that once the fish wns so close 1-hat in woM h*v« been touched, lie gives the lengtti At fmm 26 \o 30 fpet, md in Ihw he is supported by Mr. W. H&rvpy, ot 1 the PeJoroe, who was also aboard tho cutter. "Jack's" tength lias always been estimated at much Iws thwi tlint given by Cftptain (Tnrner, but as ho one hae had sttch a cV»e view as Captain Turner, and those with him on the occasion, there is some ground for flamming that the greater length is correct. "Jack" wna not seen Spin for several months ; then he turned up off Lewis Ma,nd, come 54 or 15 miles up tins Sound. Mere, Cftptftin Turner states, he remained for about twenty years. Then he began to i>ay attention to pacing Hteßmers, hi* haunts being between Fdr*yth Isknd and Clay Point. An unpleasant experience befel one. of the workmen ungaged iipon the addi^ tiofte to the Wellington QWs' College recently. ' It \va« found necessary to send a man underneath the old school for a job in connection with tho gas Sipe». The Bpace beneath the Bchool id not permit of Im standing up» *o the examination ha 4to be made on hands and knees, tn a short time the man returned to the light of day "with much less colour than when in he went,"and questioned, said that he had slum, bled in th& dark and found his arm* and head over a brick-sided hole. Lan* terns were requisitioned, and a search party sent in. What they found bore out the man's ptory. Under the floor of the main paswgo was a brick well abottt 20ft deep, with some feet of vmier and mud in the bottom, tt transpire* that this is the old hospital well, for on tint site that building once stood, and the builders of the school had not bothered to fill the hole up or board it flyer. Some years ago a nonwwhat simil.at occurrence took place in the eld house owned by Captain Johnson, oh Goldie's Brae. One evening a leg of the grand piano «uddetily disappeared through the drawmg-roofti floor, and ou investigation being made it was found that there was a well beneath (he house. Wpeaking nt the IMre Rri.s&jk's &nmi&t batftuvet in Wanganui on l ? riday night, Superintendent Hugo, the inojweclOT ol Uip brigades under the Vire Hoard, rutnbated ihe statements lPreiitly made at Palmerston Noith. by Mi. Mbllhhl. of the Fire tlnderwritm' A««od«tion, to the effect thai the t*»W Hoard k.vstem had not accompliehpd what v«b hoped in dcci*awng fire loss, and thut the results had been disappointing. In tho four years ol the board «sjs.tpm, 190740, the flmmint psid in fir* 1 Inrst* a\bs £1,770,000. Thi* *ui<-mpni. Super. Intendent Kugo said, ««■> !itßiair«tf\ in«*mi>ch an t»p to 31st December, 1010, the board had only be^n in existence three and ahalf yents; ftniher. t.h& comparisons made weir utifaii. a* it must be apparent lo nfly unbiased person thai in inaugurating such a py&tem. % a considerable hmt mtisl rlnp«» b^fofn my matevial imprrvenwjil could bp made in the perstmnel M\<l rq\iipmen(, o! a fire , brigade'. Jt^> wa*. pleaspd lo wy that the returns which nsd bo far wte ta hand showed very couwnpraljlr rpdtictions in fire W-se* in the bont'dV dis. tricls. tn reference (o the Mfltenienfe &"( to the incieawd coet of mamUininjj the PalniMnton North Viro Prigads since under the control of a FirA Board, ♦Superintendent Hugo said it should ba understood that tho greater proportion of the increased tt»l Was dup to »pit*l ! ox-penriitftr^ rendered necessary owing I to th« ineffiwnt equipmenf, of that brf. i ghdo ih previous years : and to the tevb I tbat Ww> natuiwi growth of ths town I demanded aii iucrwaed *«n<x,,