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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1913, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL ■ — * " '■ Though no official announcement has yet been mado on tho subject, it is understood that tho price of the three million loan recently floated in London works out, as nearly a« possible, at 4i per cent. The season for Bluff oysters will onen on Saturday next, Ist March, and that for Auckland rock oysters a month later. A number of the Government's policy Bills are being prepared in readiness for the coming session, and there is every indication that the Government will be in a position, to lay many of its legislative proposals before members when the House) meets. Among other measures is a Country Workers' Accommodation Bill, which has been iramed as the outcome of a conference between the Secretary for Labour (Mr. J. Lomas) and the head of the Land Purchase Department (Mr. J. D. Ritchie) and representatives of various organisations interested in the subject. An Order-in-Council has been gazetted extending to 7 p.m. on 12th March the time for closing the poll on the proposal to adopt rating on unimproved value in the Upper Hutt district, Questioned by a Post reporter this morning on the subject of appointments to the Legislative Council, the Prime Minister (the Hon. W. F. Massey) said that the subject would be dealt with at a full meeting of Cabinet before the House met. The annual picnic in connection with the Newtown State School was held at Newtown Park to-day, under ideal wed* ther conditions. Parents, teachers, and scholars assembled at the park at 10 a.m., when a start was made with the large sports programme. The Management Committee of the Wellington Cricket Association ha* had prepared a report giving details of ite expenditure on the Basin Reserve for several years past. This was brought up at a meeting of the .committee last night. It showed that the amounts expended by the association from 1900 to 31st August. 1912, were as under :-— Wages. £2260; improvements, £493; material and plant. £423; maintenance of horse, £425; raising of fence, £52; total, £3653. For a considerable time past the settlers in the Kawhia district have been agitating for the construction of a railway between their township and the Main Trunk line. Settlement is imptoving at a rapid rate, and when the large areas of Native land now locked up are thrown open for European occupation the district will carry a large popula> tion. Cabinet has authorised an exploration survey of country in connection with tho proposed railway schemo, and an officer of the Public Works De* partment is now engaged in the work. The executive of the Wellington Catholic Club, in its half-yearly import, congratulates members on the satisfactory progress of the club, the membership of which now [stands at 126. In memory of the late Father C. J. Yenning the club has instituted a "Father Yenning Memorial Prize," to be awarded annually for Christian Doctrine in the Marist Brotheis' School. The financial statement shows a balance at the bank of £27. The annual conference will be held at Christchurch during Easter week. A shorE resume of a trip he recently made to Wanganui was given by tho Mayor (Mr. Cathie) 'at tho Karori Borough Council meeting last evening. Wanganui, he said, Was progressing very rapidly. The tram service ran to Gonville, St. John's Hill, Taylor's Hill. Aramoho, and Casllecliff, and £9000 ■ was about to be spent in an extension of the rails to East Wanganui, over the new bridge. Gonville (which is one of Wanganui's miburbs) was charged 9£d per car mile t for the service, as against Is Id charged to Karori by the Wellington Ciby Council. The grades to Karori were no worse than many in the city, and the high rates charged to Karori were not warranted. Mr. Cathie added that ho had put these matters before Mr. Cable and the Mayor of Wellington, and hoped shortly to see a revision of the rates charged that would bo of benefit to tho borough. The trophy promised by Sir Joseph Ward in 1911 for competition between the Department!* at the annual Civil Service Sports Carnival, held on 30th November in each year, has been re> ceived by Mr. A. Marryat through Messrs. Walker and Hall. The trophy', which consists of a finely-modelled statuette in silver of Mercury posed tip-too on a silver globe, is mounted on an ebony plinth, tho base of which already bears two small shields which record tho two wins by the Post and t Telegraph Department. The award, which is about 14in in height, is to bo handed immediately to the Post and Telegraph Department. , Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd), arc showing exceptional value in ladies' tailored costumes, in tweeds and Cheviot friezes, at 49s 6d, 59s Cd.— Advt. Shipments of goods made regularly. Melbourne every Thursday, Sydney and South Africa Fridays. Tho Colonial Carrying Company, Ltd., 107-109, Customhouse quay. Shipping and forwarding agent* to all parts of the world,— Advt.