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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 27, 1 February 1912, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL, His Excellency the Governor has veceived a letter from Colonel Sir James Gildea enclosing one addressed to th© press, as follows -.—"London, 30th November,— May I ask for the usual hospitality of your columns to enable me to state that by tho desire of Her Majesty Queen Alexandra ■ I have undertaken_ to collect particulars, for publication in dua course, of all memorials of whatever description at Home, in the colonies, and abroad to His late Majesty ICing Edward. • I shall be obliged, therefore, if those connected with the furtherance of such memorials will, as they are' completed, kindly communicate with me, when I shall be glad to Bend particulars of th© informati6n required. I am, otc v James Gildea, Colonel." As Colonel Gildea points out, a general application like this usually produces very little result, as each loaves it to someone else to reply. A *equest, therolore, is mad© to all local bodies having memorials to the late King to forward information on the subject to Mr. A. Guise, private secretary to His Excellency. The Wellington wireless station received the message "All well" from Dr. Mawson's station on the Macquarie Island, about 1200 miles away, at 10.50 last night. The message waa transniitted thraough H.M.S. Pioneer, which is at Dunedin, | The Wellington Investment Loan and Mercantile Company, Ltd., aro holding their annual meeting to-night, in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. Tenders will shortly be called for the electrical equipment required in connection with the Lake Coleridge hydro-elec-tric power scheme. Included in the plant required are wire and other material for the transmission lines, and dyhamoe and other, machinery for the powerhouse. Sufficient time will oe allowed for tendering to enable local firms to communicate with their Home agents. , Anxious to do its share of the wovk in connection with tho approaches to the isolated Hutt Pipe Bridge, the Petone Borough Council, at a recent meeting, decided to write to the Public Works Department, in order to ascertain whether an application had been lodged by the City Council for an Order in Council, necessary before the work can be undertaken. It is understood that enquiries show that no euch application has yet been made. The position, therefore, appears to be just as indefinite now as ever it was. The finals of th© senior, and junior soulls of tlie Star Boating Club were rowed last night. Craig defeated W. H. Brew in the senior division, and D. Xi. MjKay defeated Robinson in the junior event. A case of considerable importance wao (states a Press Association message from Auckland) brought before Mr. Tracer. ; t V at Am % land by the pepartmenj. of Labour, which sought to bring several large boarding houses undor the Shops and Offices Act by virtue of a clause iv the amending Act of 1910, adding to the definition of a "shop" all restaurants, and defining "a restaurant" as any premises other tlun an hotel in which meals are provided and cold to the public for consumption ou th© premises. Counsel for defendants, urged that if boardinghouses were included in the Shops Act the effect would be very far-Teaching, that every person who kept a lodger or employed help would have to fulfil the obligations insisted upon under the Shops Act. Mr. Fraser said that iv view of the very important, issues involved, and the difficulty regarding the statute, he would reserve judgment. There are extensive bargains in the show room; blouses and costumes are going for very litlle money at Jvirk«»W6 *al«. fcirkcjil'dje *ad Staine* •fetcWAdjlk . ■'•" '