LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 46, 23 August 1911, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A fairly qutet day in the Mote© oi Representatives yestettl&ft finished pt&<m> fully at 10.30 p.m. The best ttebate was in the afternoon, en the tabling ot the Hon. J. A. Millar's report on the year's progress with, the Workers' Dwellings Act Members Were In heftlthy inquisitive tnond, and the Minister wbb fratik with, his replies. The Merita! Defectives Bill and the. friendly Sacifetiee BiU tvefe read ft third tim© aud passed. When the Patents, Desigaft, m& Trad© Matks Bill was in committee several metrtberfe dftubt as to the fairness of ft clause stipulating that patent right* should be revoked If the invention was not worked in New Zealand within four year* of the* issue of the letters patent. The Minister frgreed bo bring dmvn a new clftu«^ to modify the original provision. The Baniraki: Plains Amendment Bill (d<eoigned to iti crease to £120,000 the sum of £80,000 voted for the drainage of the Piako swamp) was referred to the Lands Committee. The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment BiU and the Workers 1 Compensation AmeiKtaieiit BUI referred to the Labour 33ill*> Committee. Aeeidetifc underwriter* of New Ze&kml will meet ift Wellington to-moTTow for the semi.'&nntia.l conference. Anpthei* conference in connection with the dispute filed by the Merchant Service Giiild will bft held to-night. The proceedings will be in committee. During the year 10i0-ll the Wellington Hospital doctors attended 5192 persons in th« otttpattente' department, which involved 17,328 attendances ab th« hospital, Fees amounted to £372 7s 6d. Considerable interest' is being manifested by John«onvllle residents in the meeting of ratepayers to be held this evening ofr the lighting question, lb is proposed to light the borongh by petrol gas, also to erect offices for the board. For this purpose it }& proposed to raise a loan of £4300. A large meeting is expected. A return laid before the Hospital Board yesterday showed that at the end of the last fortnightly period there were 262 patients in the ho*pital 2 a» com* pared with 21? at the corresponding time last y©ftt» There Me 13/ males and 125 femalefc in the institution. Ab present there are 12 inmates o£ the Children's Hospital, A number of sections in MinimalBorough contain only 19 perches— orw> perch less than the minimum area (an eighth of an acre) on which a building can now be erected. A special meeting of the borough council has been, cateld ,for Friday to consider-— and if approved to adopt-^-an amendment to the lay-laws to legalise the erection of a house oh any section which contains 19 perches. •If conditions are very iavourwble this ■ evening the General Post Office will get l in communication by wireWfl telegraphy with the Rttfcpsliu, which is dus ftt Wellington on Friday from London, with Sir Joseph Ward on board. Meeßftgee for transmission to the 1 Ruapehvt will be received at the Telegraph Office up -till midnight at ft charge of tenpettee per word without a minimum number of words, * | The number of outpatients at Wei- | lington Hospital is growing at &tich a, I pace that the accommodation is proving quite inadeqt^fee. In, 1907-8 there were 2017 outdoor patients and last year there were 5192. The Hospital Committee reported yesterday i that as the building had outgrown present requirement* ,ib be utilised for tire chest disease Ahd detital branches of the outpatients' de- | partment, and the committee be emI powered to obtain sketch plans and estimates for a suitable ttuuding for the ordinary outpatients' department otv the western side of the main hospital. The hecessary authority to obtain plans was given. When ft civil case Was called on at the Lower Hutt Omirt to-day the d«» feiidant intimated through hie solicitor that he wo* defending the action. The plaintiff, who was also present) thereupon asked for 'an Adjournment of the case, stating that he had not been IWti« fled of ft.hy intention to defend, Defendant's solicitor claimed that hie party had followed the rules* as set down in the Mafi*trabe'# Court Act, ajid that •be was under no obligation to notify fche plaintiff, who should be prepared, in any case, to go on. It ftppeared, he continued, that through some mistake tlie plaintiff had not been informed by the Clerk of the Cotut that the notice had been lodged. At any rate/if the c&ee was adjourned by the Court, he would ask for expenses. He had come quite prepared to proceed j with the defence. After ewne diecUßI eion as to the usual practice followed ift instances such es. this, the ease was adjourned And 10s Allowed for costs. ' The Hon. D. Buddo (Minister of Lands) attended bhe Counties' Conference to-day, and made a brief address. As an old member of a lw&l body he could aympathiße, ho aaid, with the work of the coftference. The difficulties of local government were increasing, ahd confer<jn<!es of reprsientfttives of counties would allow of valuable discussion of th«o Question*. The local bodie* had to meet the requirements «f heavy traffic. The bridge that carried a two-horee dray ft few yeara ago would be smashed to pieces by the heavy, traffic of to-day, The question of raws wa« becoming more and more difficult. The Minister referred to the Local Government Bill, which some local authorities appeared to regard c* a guarantee of essnred finance rather than anything eto», What it meant was rather economy thftti Anything else. Th»» ffM ftlwftye an inclination for portion* of counties to break ftway, ftnrl in some in»t»noe« thie wad ooly making another burden for the ratepayer*, tt wae difficult to pl«Me everybody, and thii he w«* sure the conference would recognise. Shortening the 'tramway tout© from KMori to the city fe a problem lh»t ha* been exercising the minds of Karori people for a long time, and opinions n.re very divided aa to which of tfc* w»ver»i routes proposed should be adopted . A committee from the Rarer! Borough Goniiffll was set up ewne months ago to consider the question, btit up to the present has no* brought .down a report, For a time no mention" has been made publicly of the matter, but at, last , night's meeting of the Karori Council ' it was revived by the receipt 4i & letter from Mr. J. W. Henderson &nd two other gentlemen asking that a deputation might be received Cy the council to discuss the situation. Councillor Hildreth suggested that. A special meeting should be held to recoive the deputation, bub Councillor Bum contended that a. special meeting wa9 not ntceß,«ary, at large »nvt small deputations had in the past been received &l ordinary mwtingp. The Mayer sftid the feeling of th* council on the question was well known, and it was not a'dvkable to waste the time of the council over a. matter that would have to be finally d#Ut with by the ratepayers. It was evtmtually decided that the deputation be received ab the npxt> ordinary m«rfcing of the council, Japan Crepe Cloths, SOin wide, in cau de nil, reseda, dark green, .sky, s&xe blue, navy, fawn, light brown, dark brown, wink, heliotrope, grey. At I2id a yard. Kirkdaldift and Stainfe, Ltd.— I { Advfc ' " «*

Straying cattk have b«>J) tor years— fthd will probably continue ti» be fop many tnce ye«re—« ftooroe of tiywble to local bodree, who have been eofrsty pueKled <m to the br«t. meaaB > to t*ke to abate the nuiewioe. Kwori Borough Council liw Itied it* beflt, and, accord ing to the Town Cterk (Mr. W. F. Eng Itaid)^ it© effort* have been practically in vajn. Thb clerk brought one c«*e before the court, "but," lie flftdiy m> marked, "the dofoiidAUt cmsaged a lawyer, »nd we lost." He lisd recehtly brought two further c»e«. witii the same result. "It would appeal I ,"' e»id U» tlerk, "that the court in aio» ksti^ feftt to owners of cattle th*a to loeai bodi^. !l Mr. Knglafld further «dd that he had coneulted the Bonwtgh SoJicitor on the matter of cattle btrt&ying on to vacfttrt. unfenced sections, and yt* fedvised io give a boy a few panoe to throw «ton« at them end drive them off I With reference to a letter written by him last month, suggesting that the 7 a.m. train from Te Aro should be dl* oohtmued and that one train fihould be rtin living Te Aro at 7.16 a.m., Mt, »• A. Wright, M.p., h M bfen advieed by the Minister i "That the 7 a.m. ifftln convey* 6,n ftverage of thirty-dght p»». sengers daily for stations hotth of Lower Hittt, and to alter the departure time until .7.16 a.m. would prevent thofe wofkefp re&ehihg t,h*ir deetination be. fore 8 a.m. Another reason why th* departure time cannot be altered fa that thre tram h«e to crow the mornlttc tram from Upper Hutt et ttfeywArd? and the latter train has in turn to make a crossing with the 7.46 a.m. train from Wellington to Woodville at PitadthVe. The ehgme thft.t run« the 7 A.m. train m atoo jeqnbed to work a train leaving Upper Hutt for Wellington at' s.2o a.m. The 7.20 a.m. train conveys Workers to both Kaiwwra and Ngahaurahga, and there w an average of thirty pflseenesrs for the ktter ektion only/ In tfieae oitemMtAtiMi, the Minieter regret* that Mr. Wrights ftuggatfon cannot be given effect to. Thß » Js**f nu^ er *i ioat.patleots, over 8000, treated at Wellington Ho*, pitftl dtti-ing the past year, causes Mr. B, R, Gardiner, a member of the Hospital Board, to thifik that there is a great amouht of imposition carried on. At yesterday's meetihg of- the boai'd he expressed himself that it was a disgrwre to a city like .Wellington to be in this fetal*, of poverty. It seemed to him that there was not sufficient supervision of the outpatients' department. While the -number of patients had grown tho fees had not ihcrea«ed in proportion. Mr. R. C. Kifk thought an explanation of the ( matter was that the medical men had tired of treating people for no* thing, ahd sent them on to the hospital The committee, no doubt, would in time consider a way of obtaining mor& fee*.. Rev. tt. Van Staveven hoped that no one would be turned away because he 1 could not afford to' pay. It was suggested that many people came from afarto Wellington Hoßpital because of the excellent treatment they received. Mr. Gardihcr retorted, that he did not care if 10.000 people went to the hospital, provided they dfd n^t impose on the institution, The matter is to be cou» sidered by a Bub-committee. Colonel C. J. Cooper (general man. ager of the Liverpool ahd London an<* Globe Insurance Company), Mr. James Edgar (general manager of the Vie toria Insurance Company), and Mr. James Buchatt (general manager of the Yorkshire Inauraned Company), arrived in Wellington from the South by the Maori this morning. A yonng man named William All. man Denning wa* charged at the SnP»tne Court yesterday afternoon with indecently assattltihg a girl aged five on 13th Jtitie. Mi>. Jl. }f. Ostler appeared for the Crown, and Mr. 1?. p. Kelly for accused. The jury returtted a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner wav eetiteJiCed to three j^ftrB 1 ittiptisonment with hard labour* Sending parcels abroad? Then bf» ward through the N.Z. Expreee Csom. pany. Ltd, Goods entrusted to us aHe handled ca.refully, forwarded quickly, delivered safely. And charges ai 1 © always te«fionable.»-Advt. It is no news to hear that Ihe thertage of labour still continues in the Dominion, nhd ttiahy theories have been put fofward, but hoite, tw yet, huve been euc eesaful. Immigra,t!Ori is looked upon «s the b«t weans out of the difficulty, but eatißf&ctbry guftrnntßes should be forthcoming that immigrant* arriving ih N.Z. should hot replace those already employed ih the Domiftioh. With the improved nieatis of transport goods and passehgers can be tr&ttaf erred to New Zealand from any, iwrt of the globe. For itififctfiee, C. Smith, Ltd, f Cubft^treet, have just t&> ceived & dirett ghipment of Shantung silky from _ the Chiha provinces. These silks are distinguished for their elearheis of colour, bnghtti** of flhteh, ahd evenneps of weftVß, and ere quite free from that irregularity of dye fed frequeut in unselected eilks.-^Advt.