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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1912, Page 6

At a meeting of the Wellington. Citizens' League last night, a resolution was passed, "That the Minister for Labour bo urged to carry out tho law with regard to the active instigators, aiders, and abettors in connection with the recent tramway strike in Wellington." It was reported at last night's milling of the Karori Borough Council thai. on 31st March last rates outstanding amounted to £248 6s 3d, Karori residents being responsible for £191 19s kl and Northland for £56 7s 2d. If tho rates are not paid tb<* council will sue for them. That, tho cutting off of a day's racing from the A.11.C. Autumn Meeting by the Racing Commission has not hn<i the effect of reducing speculation, wsw fully evidenced tit the club's recent meeting, when the record sum of £68,947 10s was passed through tho machines on the two days. Thift represents an increase of £2*1,296 10s for the corresponding period the previous year, and £1851 over last years gathering, when tho racing extended over three clays. "I am certain that the State could manufacture boot* and retail them at fm. per pair less on the average than they are sold to-day, make a profit, and compete successfully with the foreign article. 1 make that statement with a full eeniw of responsibility, and am prepared to prove it up to the hilt if required." That observation was made by Mr. G. R. • Whiting, a delegate to tlie Trades (jouncils Conference, and himself a practical bootmaker, at the sitting of tho conference to-day. Judging from the recent experience of the Department of Labour there appears to be a decided scarcity of dressmakers in the Dominion. The department received a telegram from a Nobon. firm asking if it could supply ten, dressmakers at £2 a week. Enquiries were made locally, and the department was obliged to reply that it could not supply one, as all competent hands here are fully engaged, and that many of them are getting higher wages than those offered by the Nelson employer. Overcrowding in a picture theatre in the city on the 22nd of March last was the euDj'ect of a prosecution in the Magistrate's Court to-day. Mtvtshall John Donnelly and Charles M'Malwu were charged, on the information of Inspector Doyle, with having allowed persons to remain standing in the aisles at The New Theatre on the 22nd of March last. Through their solicitor, Mr. J. J. M'Grath, defendants pleaded guilty. It was stated that the breach was not a ' wilful , one, the- passages being blocked through people continually coming and going. A fine of 20s, with costs 7a, was imposed. The old system of issuing tram tickets is to b& reverted to on the Karori section of the tramways.. Under the present 6y stem no Karori tickets are issued until Karori-bound cars have passed the Botanical Gardens. At the Karori Borough Council meeting last evening it was pointed out that people frequent* ly alighted between the Gardens and the tunnel without paying fares j also, that on full cars the conductors had some difficulty in collecting all the fares before the car reached the first stop. Tho recommendation of tho Tramways Committee, that the old system be reinstated, was adopted. Information was received from Lonpon by last mail that the Associated Board of the R.A.M. and R.C.M. has awarded two Exhibitions, tenable at the Royal Academy of Music to candidates who entered for the board's examinations' in New Zealand last year. The winners arc Miss Dorothy Browning, of Invercargill, and Miss Mary G. Prasser, of Dunodin. Three Exhibitions, entitling the winners to a fre« course of tuition at the Royal College or the; Royal Academy lor a course of at least two years, aro offered annually to candidates in. Australasia ,■ and it is very much to the credit "of New Zealand that two out of the three have this year b,ceu award ©d to thia country. "A Senior Cadet;" writes from Brooklyn to the editor of Th© Post and contends that hostility to the compulsory principle is more widespread than itmay appear in the press. "Capitalistic press" and other phrases indicate the ruby colour of the correspondent's ink. Criticising the deputation which interviewed the Minister of Defence yesterday, the "Senior Cadet" remarks :— "There spoke forth from that deputation some of the most flattering jingo that I havo ever read. An argument thrown forward by some of the jingoes is-. 'Fight for the King and country.' In the first plaoe- I say : Let the King fight for himself, or if he i» too much or a. weakling, the sooner kings are off tho Throne the better for the nations. As regards the country ; until a country or the State can guarantee the workingclass a good living, and steady employment and a security when they get too old to work, the country's not worth, fighting for.' New Zealand does nob guarantee the workers that. Is it worth fighting for? Draw your own conclusion." Some curious lefctere reach the Department of Labour from people who contemplate settling in, New Zealand. The following from North Dakota is an illstare©:— -"I am much interested in warmer climate country which some fruit also grows as I was born in such country, and here is so cold that no fruit grows at all, and I am almost sick of the climate, stomach out of order on account <*f the hard alkilic waters. So 1 wish you would send mo some books so I might find out about your country, the soil also the climate your hoMieatoad law. I will bo much thankful to you for it, for I want to move, to • warmer country not to very wild country, ti\it good for general farming and ranching where there is some white people already. Is there any. wild people to bother farmers or ranchers, and have you got good market* for product out theref' Another correspondent from London wants to v know I what wages are paid here to a photographer's assistant. In a postcript he saye :—"ls: — "Is there a demand for bakers?" Another correspondent is enquiring about taking up 200 acres of land on w&ich to start a sawmill. A woman wrote a* to liar chances of lebablislriug a dressmaking establishment, preferably at Kew Plymouth. She was told there would be no difficulty, us a prosperous business ,in that town had just been closed. A journeyman watchmaker was told thai permanent employment had^been secured for him. And so they come, from England, Europe, and America. Clerk* u.ud seekers ior kindred occupations are invariably "warned off the course." Travellers by train or boat can avoid all discomfort by checking their baguu«« through the Now Zealand Ejmre«s Company. w Tel« Q2, 2410, 1335, 3066.— Advt. Unpalatable as tho recent utterances of Mr. Churchill in vofinonco to the uavtu sit nation m Kuropo undoubtedly is to our rivals on tho Continent^ its main offcot has been to satisfy tho nation mid consolidate tho faith which it reposes in those b;. f whmn it bjiß entrusted tho bolmuu charge of the muintonuuce of the tmtiou'e naval Mipromnov. That, they will soe to it tlmfc tltu British Nuvv is kept, supreme, this stator.man liko policy leaves no doubt. It. scows (hut tho oversea dominions ure more fully loiilismg that tho economies of our vusb colonial trndo are only ttocurod by the unrluillonifod character of tho British Navy. This is Minply illustrutcd by the wolootno tfivon (o v \ety large bhipinunt of "Ifroudtiought SovjW' at C. Smith, Lul , Cubft-stvpot— solid British weave?, lant, na\y dyo. '1'h '-.<•> gucdh nr«t.ont> them, bchcs (o ,^ott ai tho \<?ry 'as! wovlc in navy surge. Six qualities— &> 3d, Sa (kl, 3« Del, 3s 11 a, 4 a 3d, 4j> lid y4~s<!LiiKk