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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 74, 24 September 1912, Page 6

At a meeting of Cabinet yesterday, it wa« decided tp pall tender* for automatic tejpphone iael^Uatiow in Wellington and Auckland. A e^art will prpbabjly be made at Auckland. The PostmasjEerGeneral (Hon. H. If. Rhodes) et^tee that it wi}l be eomc time before pompiete automatic installations " cah be* fitted up at those citiefs'. Meanyrbjlo it is estimated that the exiting equipment jn Wellington can oaly' copa with tho increase m subscribers tot two y«ar« more. At th© end of that period, unlepe the equipment is augmented, the exchange will be at a standstill, «o far an additional BuWiJberji are concerned. a" V" 88 * 0 ' th G increase of bufiihce* nt th e Minister has decided \*> obtain 500 automate telephones, te be installed imm©diate)y &t Auckland. Until the system is completely established these will not be »ulomatic cc far as th« subscriber to concerned, but "the accompanying addition te tho E?ch«ige will .fee operated under a ,comt>intttioft of tho manual and automatic system. Tho cost of t\» extern will fee between £2600 and fjSOOO. The Kilbirnie Ratepayer*/ Association ha« fqrwwd e ,d a. letter te. tlie fe Aro Railway League, urging It te continue m its endeavour* te Tiring about improved railway facilities 'for the flquihern end pf the cifcy. It was ten minutes to. 6 o'o}ock last mghfc before the Auckland exprett reached Wellington. Aa $Ml h our issue of yesterday, the train wa* blocked trough a fall of earth iacrew the [me about thirteen milea *outh of the Waforu station. There are aboard the Turakina, at present in port, 28 rams and two ewes consigned fro tyqnte yideb. ' It is becoming quite usua} now for Hpme-bound i steamers to carry sfpek pf this description ,, and many orders from sheep-breed-ers m the Argentine continue to come to hand. The sheep now on the Turakina were shipped kt Napier. Suggesting that a previous award should not be made a basis for a new one, a unjon representative before tile Arbitration Court to-day said that the union had not been satisfied with the old award. "Is there .ever any union that }a satisfied with p,n award f' asked the president, Mr, Justice pirn. "Yes, your Honour," replied the union agent. "Very few, anyway," rejoined his Honour. The Minister for Railways has heard a great deal this session ab,pufc differential railway rates, gouth Isjand members in particular having actfvejy concerned themselv.es about the system which' operates on the East side as a result of sea competition, and which also prevails to a less extent in Westland. The Prime Minister (Hon. W. tf. Mtu'ey) has informed Mr. f . E. % Sedd.pri that his colleague, the Minister for Railways, intends going into $ie whole question of local railwiy rates during the recces. The statement made by thp employers' representative, when tho drivers' dißpute was ppfore the Arbitratipn' Court, that carrying firmß had to compete against carters who had no wages to »ay, has drawn a reply frbiii ",Qb*e*ver," who writes to The F.ost : "Those firm* mofiopolise J,he whole carrying business, and if anybody employs the small carter making an existence (nol, a living) the big carrying firms will boycott him." The correspondent adds that there are only a few licensed carters left nbw, and the fact that big companies are run by the carrying firms will soon drive out these also. It was decided at a meeting qf the executive officers of the Petone Football CJu> held last evening tq entertain the members of the junior team. The record qf the junior team this season has been remarkably good, they having put up the splendid performance of scoring 240 points during the ueason, ftnd'not having ohe p,qmt B epred' against them. Medals which are to be presented at the functiqn haye been donated l>y two supporters of the club, and are to be given to the first sixteen members qf t^e junior team. Trophies will also be oreBented to the members of 'the fourth, fifth, and sixth class teams. Several compkinta have been received lately by the borough engineer at Lower Hutt (Mr. W. Jf. Roche) about the discoloration of the water from the main. The complaints in each case cftme from those connected with dead ends of th,e mains. As the engineer explained to a Post reporter this morning it is only natural that the water from these dead ends should not be as clear aa from those portions of the mains that do nol cease at a certain point, "but form a continual circulation. Exactly '&s" if».me trouble tjiat ia cpmplainppi oj at Lpwer Hu'tt^as been .Cqnjpjained <» elsewhere. ' A remecjy which to a considerable extent mitigates the trouble is the flushing but of the mains, and this h carried out two or three times a year at Lpw^r' Hujit. Those who wish N.ew Zealand to swamp her London office jn the overwhelmingj entity pt Australia will be inJieresjied to learn of several npw activi» ties of the Commonwealth (writes The Post's London correspondent), for oi}e thipg Außtra|ia has ji^s|. pßeo.^ in tl^e city a fine shop, fypttt exhibiting tl|e products ql the .Commonwealth in a most attractive manner, much qh the' lines of the shops suggested by Mr, Camerqn ten yeai'B ago. There is one main difference bptween ijio sch^nics, natnply, that A'usLralia is n i.v the present actually Selling thjnga in its shpp. Exhibit 2-— Australia has d,eci4pd, in view of fihe increasing work to be done for the Royal Australian Navy, tp open in London a recruiting depot for British seamen wfyo WisH to take service uncjer the Southern Cross. Extiibty 3— Australia is displaying every few days pn a 'large hoarding at the Isknq site in the Strand 'Australia'^ Daily Message," a few lines 'seating forth some' striking development of Australian life of trade, tt; ip 'a fine yisiial ]esspn for tjie puHip. " ' The grass grubs, which were responsible for so much destruction MApng the pasture and prqps in' iihe' A'ohtiirtoh Cp'urity during thp past tsro ye^rp' |says Cftristclmrch ' Pre^j arp f^r pohgpicuous by tneir almost entire absence in the heavy lands this season. But reports to hand show that the pests are working vigorously in the lighter lands ?n the Aphburtpi} plains. One farmer ad sown down a large field in grasses and clover, and |he p,ests (Jegtrbyeq every Vpstjgp of the cr'pp. ' To-morrow (Wednesday) Kirkcaldio apd Stains, Ltd., will* offer gppci^l bargains in fHovps, Hoßiefy, White Mvj • Jin Blousep, Parley Scarves, '^nd Towels.— Advt. Do you want storage for furniture, goods, or baggage. It's cafe, dry, convenient, clean^m brick-built buildingi. The N.& Express Company, "Qf'B|, CustomhDuse-quay.--AdvK li. is difficult to tell es.aotly what the result of the Waihi strike wijl be. pno da.f we hear that the men ate likely" to return toworlj, the next i hat' tlje' gtrjKorsi prefpr prison tb law and order. at)d pven if the present crisis passes il Bf)6)iii'but n matter of time before there wjll T>e' & great industrial upheaval In N.JS. In the meantime, commercial entDrpriio goes on, and to the average woman it is more pleasant to see the new fashions than to read etriko reports, for ihstanoe, C Smith, Ltd., the popular ' Cuba-street store, has just opened up a new line ih tho popular Magyar one-piece dress ooloufed lineno, in saxo, eky, grey,* biscuit, and hav>, small Magyut sliftpe, \ylth «e*ni cpUnr ntid ouffs ot wlitte," atid panel back skirl, ntooked in ill srtes. % at otto &«<* only, 7b lid. 1 Note the. address: C. Ltd. t Cuba-etreet,— Adtt,