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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 70, 22 March 1912, Page 6

A pioposal by the Mirainur Borough. Council that certain borough cars bo run fie special "through" cars, the borough paying tho car mileage from the LambLou Station and taking the receipts, wu& not entertained by the City Council lam night. The tender of Wright, Dixon, and Witt, ot Wellington, has been accepted for the supply of waterproof coats and capes for the Police Force. Their uric© is £2 1r 3d fov a* coat and cape aor tv foot policeman, and £2 fe 9d in the caso ot a mounted matt. Oases of infection diseases have been fairly prevalent in New Plymouth of lato. Reporting to tho Hospital Board on Wednesday, Dr. Walktr noted that owing to further cases of sc&rlofc fevor and mumps being admitted, the isolatiou block was now full, and it was impossible to receive any fur- her case* of infectious diseaso. The Tramway Ambulance- Brigade, under Mr. W. B. Dixon (superintendent) and Mr. Tucker (first officer), held a very i successful practice last, night. A petition, signed by every member of tho brigade, has been forwarded to the retiring secretary, asking him to retain the position. A medal, to be presented lo the member who is most successful in passing examinations during the•next seven months, has been promised. The proposal of the Chmtchurch City Council to extend .the period for which councillors are elected horn two years to three yearn came before the City Coun» cil last evening. It wap defeated by aix votes to five. Councillor Fletcher complained that tho propobal was not intelligently put. He wanted more Information, and suggested that it should be referred back to the Christchurch Council for that purpose. This was agreed to. A deputation to the City Council headed oy Professor Kirk, last evening urged the council to make a permanent appointment of a qualified curator for the Newtown t Museum. The committee had done all it could do now, said Professor Kirk. The collection having grown tp large proportions, the time had now arrived when it should be in charge of a curator with the requisite knowledge and experience to take charge of tho museum. The Acting-Mayor promised that the representations should receive consideration. The Marine Department has accepted the tender of Stevenson and Cook, of Port Chalmers, for the manufacture of four large iron buoys. The price is £140. Hie unsuccessful tenderers were: John - M'Cregor and Co., Dunedin, £150; Vulcan Foundry, Napier, £160; Gardner and Co., Ltd., Port Chalmers, JBI6U 16s; J. J. Niven and Co., Ltd., Napier, £174; E. J. lluddick, Addington. £197 6s: S. Lcko and Co., Ltd.. Wellington, £198 10s; Cossens and Black, Ltd., Dunedin, £248 6s; W. Cable and Co., Ltd., Wellington, £250; Andersons, Ltd., Christchurch, £257. Enquiries have been made ac to whe ther school concession tickets on the Brooklyn tram-line enable tho holders to .travel beyond Manners -street on the ticket. The question put by a correspondent is : "Are these school j tram ticket* available on the Brooklyn-Manners-street section only, or do they hold good as far as the Genera] Post Office?" The Tramway Manager replies officially that the tickets always nave been, and v are, available only on the Brooklyn-Manners-street sections. If holders of school tickets have been al lowed to travel beyond Manners-strcei-on the Post Office section it has boea done entirely contrary to regulations. Payment of fees for plans in the Lands Department i« being made by the City Council under protest. The 'department of lands ,has decided to charge fees for the approval of all plans required by law to be submitted to the chief uurveyor for approval. The council contends there is no authority by statute or regulations to make such a charge, but the department states that even if tin fees ore not legally demandable, thn Governor will not issue proclamations or warrants until payment is made. The Finance Committee recommended thab the fees for the plans at present m tho hands of the department be paid, under protest, that direct representation be made to the Cabinet on the subject, and that the matter be also brought before the Municipal Association for consideration. Mr. Sverre Jensen, who represents the Oversea Export Company, Ltd., ofChrishiania, Norway, was a passenger by tho Ulimaroa from the Bluff this week for Melbourne. Speaking to a South' laud Times reporter Mr. Jensen said thufc his company was endeavouring to further trade between his country and Now Zealand. There was no limit to tho trading of his company, timber, carbide, woodware, and Mi preserves being the commodities which it had foremost im its mind. Mr. Jensen said that he had been in New Zealand for several months, and had travelled through the length and breadth of tho country. Ho l«lb quite satisfied thai tho prospects for improving trade between tli© two countries were very good, especially in regard to timber. In motor oil engines he thought that Norway could compete successfully with other countries. . Norwegian pine, tco. was much superior to- Baltic pine, and he was of opinion that, in the fact> of a timber problem which New Zealand would in a/ few years have to face, a bettoi timber market thuu Norway could not be found fop this Dominion. Mr. J. Strauchon, whose appointment as Under-Sccretary for Lands was reported yestorday, was born at- Berwick in 1848, and came to the colony when a boy. When only 14 years of age ho entered the Provincial Engineers' Department of Otago, and was transferred to the Survey Department in 1865. Six years Juter no becamo District Surveyor \*» at Mataura, in which he remanied' for W seven years, broken by a ehort interval at Nelson in 1877. Twenty-one years ago he was appointed Commiasionor of Grown Lands and Chief Surveyor for WesUand, and two years later was promoted tx> v. similar position al Taraiiuki. There he remained until the end of 1901, when ho was appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands for Wellington, and in 1907 he succeeded Mr. T. Humphries as SurveyorGeneral. The newly-appointed SurveyorGeneral, who succeeds Mr. Strauchon (Mr. Jaa, Mackenzie) is a brother of tho Hon. T. Mackenzie. He was born in Edinburgh sixty-three years ago, and whs educated at Dunedin. He entered the Otago Provincial Survey Department in 1867, and in 1872 was appointed «*• eistant-6uvveyor for the Wellington province, district surveyor in 3874, and in chief draughtsman for tho Wellington district. In 1902 he waft promoted to be Commissioner of Crown ! Lands and Chief Surveyor for the Auckland district, and five years ago wac, appointed to his present position as Commissioner of Crown Lands for tho Wellington district. The adjourned meeting of the creditor oi J. J. K. Powell was held this morning, but wha not boen to the prose. . The Petono Ambulance Society's funds will benefit to tho extent of between £3 and £10, an a result of a performance given at fho Thcatro ftoyal, Potone, last evening. Pending definito arrangements for tho annual tiknw' matches against th«* other i-lub*., ti\'j Kavori Kitto Club will fit© i«. dividual competitions ftt Tl'ouihain tomouow for cash prizes, allotted out of [ the .compcjUfirfe' ciittiw., •