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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 135, 7 June 1912, Page 7

Th* arrivals in Now Zealand daring the month 6f April numbered 3337, as against 2298 for the corresponding month of last year, and the departures numbered 4265— three more than in April, 1911. Th« Postal authorities advice that the s.B. Victoria, which sailed from Sydsney on Wednesday at 10 p.m. for Auckland, has on board an Australian mail. The Wellington portion is due to arrive hore by Main Trunk on Tuesday next. It w stated that a proposal to sever connection with the Federation of Labour is to be discussed at the meeting of the Manawato Flaxmili Employees' Union on Satnrda-v *ffc«rnoo.i£ at Palmers-ton NortK Master E. 8.. P. Petrie. who is to be a ineraber of the Wellington section of the New Zealand cacko oantingeat for Canada, hold* U*e rank of Colour-Ser-geant in the Young Men's Christian Association Cadets, which corps will entertain !tif& gi, a " social " next week. The XJnifcv at Labour proposals were considered by a ajeetin^r of Trades Council delegates last M*ght, and, after being discuased for some time, were adopted. The council's motion of adoption ie to be submitted to each uaion affiliated to the Trades Council for coniircnaiioji. The n«ed for the provision of a namber s>f boom groynes in the upper reacl*e* yf the Hutt River was emphasised ir»y the board's ovewesr in his HxratJily report to the board last evonfcg. lie recommended that five groynes xhooid be pat in next summer to operate in ooo 4 «ui*etion with works already oonstrcctfld. He thought that it woold be advrivibk to call tenders fur the oupply of timber at ooce so that &o time wcmld be loet. Tie board agreed to tine recoroineiiiijUion, and it was abo decided to ctwiinuiucaie wiLh the owners affected asking iheAi to contribute towards the coet. Tor a long lame pact tbe lady opera■fchw>s An the Central Telephone Exchange have been cramped for room. Makeshifts are now to give way to extensive enlargement of the exchange, in. order to ct>pe with the increased, nse of the telephone system. A new annexe in wood, aeaHy 100 ft long and some 15ft /ide, is being erected on tie ground facing Wfeitmore-street. It will not only provide room for additional exchange work, . bttb there will be an extension in towarcls the grounds of the Government offices, which will be utilised for diningroom, kitchen, and other accommodation for the staff. Mention was made before Mr. Justice Cooper in Chambers to-day of the allegation of contempt of Court against Ernest Denis Hoben, of the Manawatu Daily 'limes. Mr. A. Pair asked when and where the case would be heard. He understood that the Chief Justice and Justices Cooper and Chapman intended conferring as to whether the matter should go to the Full Court. His Honour replied that the Judges had not been able to confer. The Chief Justice would be back in Wellington to-day or tomorrow, and he could then be asked for a fixture. He (Mr Justice Cooper) could not deal with the matter, as he was leaving for Wanganui to-morrow. Day labour versus contract -work is a subject to be discussed by a deputation from the Building Trades Labourers' Federation and the Trades Council with the Minister for Public Works {Hon. W. D: S. Mac Donald) at' the first available opportunity. The deputation is to enter a. protest, against the ietting of the work of erecting the new "Parliamentary Buildings by contract. It is urged that as the most important work of all, the laying of the fcaxndatione, waa carried out most successfully by day labour, the work of erecting the building should also be done by that method; also that day labour has been proved to be cheaper in large ■works than the contract system. The Trades Council has ako set up a deputation to wait on the Minister for Bailways (Hon. A. M. Myers) op- hie return from Auckland, asking that the engines required by the Railway Department ehoald be constructed in the Government railway shops, and not be let to contractors.