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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 23, 27 January 1912, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL, * While some unions have decided to cut adrift from the Arbitration Court, new ones are coming into existence. The latest in Wellington is the " Wellington Performing Musicians' industrial Union of Workers." The members of the union number ' »bout fifty, and whon the rules of the organisation have boen approved it is intended to apply to tho I Arbitration Court for an award. A similar union is already iv existence "X Dunedin, one has just been formed at Auckland, and another is in process of formation at Christchurch. A proposal has jußt been brought before the general committee of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board by ifr. John Barton, acting oo behalf of residents in the Upper Hutt, Akatarawa, Johnsonville, and adjacent districts, fox* the provision of a motor ambulance . The suggestion ie that a sufficient cum should be collected by the residents to pay half the cost of the vehicle. Any such sum would carry a Government/ subsidy. The -Hospital Committee has decided to give the suggestion every encouragement, and committees will now be set up in the several localities interested to make the necessary collections. It is thought likely that the provision of such an ambulance will render a cottage hospital at Upper Hutt unnecessary. The mails which left Auckland on 22nd December, per R.M.S. Zealandia, via Vancouver, arrived in London yesterday. At a meeting of the director* of the Wellington Farmers' Union Mutual Fire Insurance Association, held in Palmerston North on Thursday, Captain Hewitt (chairman) reported on the two claims for fire losses t>ince last meeting™ viz., £150 and £250,- these, with a small claim for £3, constituted the total looses since March last. Several representatives of the meat trade in Dunedin give it as their opinion that there is no prospect of a reduction in prices in the near future. Ono man (reports the Star) says that there will' be no reduction this year, as the stock is not in the country, while another thinks that there may be a weakening of the price of mutton about Marcn, when many ewes will be placed on the market, but he is convinced that the present rates tor meat will not be decreased this year. When questioned . as to wnether he thought the price of butter would be raised in Dunedin in sympathy with the advance recorded of the retail price in Wellington to Is 3d per pound, a wellknown local merchant (states the Otago Daily Times) said he could see no reason why values should have been increased in "Wellington, seeing that the tendency of the Home butter market was to come back henceforward, and he was of opinion, therefore, that there would be no change in prices in Dunedin. Home values, nowever, would never fall as low this year as they had previously done at this time of the season. The farmem had had most propitious weather for dairy-farming in the Wellington district from the beginning of January, and the grass was coming on well. The came was the case in the South Island, said our informant, and indications pointed to a longer dairy seaeon this year than was usually the case. Another gentiei man largety interested in the dairy industry here, alet proffered the opinion that there would be no corresponding rise <n butter values in Dunedin in sympathy with that juet recorded in Wellington. An Invercargill horse-dealer informed a reporter that he will send across to Melbourno next week a number of young heavy draught horees. The market in Australia for horses is not, he states, co good this year as it has been in past years. This is owing to a number of different causes. The recent droughts have caused the crops to be poorei this year ; the shipping companies nave i-aised the freight on horeea £1 per head ; and, the New South Wales Government has put a duty of*£l per head on all horses landed m that State. During the past three years there has been a good demand for young heavy draughts both in New South Wales and Western Australia. In the former of these States the Government ha* been cutting up the large estates un the coast and the small tanners require horses for their work. In both the above-mentioned Staves there hae been a great deal ot settlement going on inland, which naturally increases the demand for horses. The ruling prices for draught horses in the Dominion are high, and only a small margin of prolit is left for dealers exporting to Australia. The dealei stated that ii it were not for the Australian market heavy draught horses would not | be worth roaring in New Zealand. There appeara to be a fairly good de* mand for new wheat. A line of about 10,000 bushels was cold in South Canterbury this week at, 3e 4Jd to 1 be delivered in Timaru. | The " Cowes " real French kid glovee, two-domes, broad-stitched backs, in tan, beaver, brown, fawn, ficelle, grey, and .jvhite, at 3s 6d a pair. Kirkcaldie and Btt^inii, Ltd.—Acivt,