TELEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 57, 8 March 1913, Page 9

TELEGRAMS

1/ r NOTES FROM DUNEDIN SUCCESS OF EX-OTAGAN. VETERAN'S DEATH(BI TIXEOBAPH— SPECIAL TO THI POST.) DUNEDIN, This Day. Mr. William Calder, M.1.E.A,, an old Ooago High School boy, has been selected by the Victorian State Government out of 100 candidates for the position of chairman of the Country Roads Board recently set up for that State. For the past fifteen years Mr. Calder has been city engineer for Prahran, Melbourne. Hjs new post carries with it a salary of £800 per annum. At a meeting of the Trades and Labour Council, Mr, M. M'Callen presiding, a discussion took place regarding the advisability of the Government adhering to fair wages for firms receiving Government contracts, and it was decided' to urge the Government to adopt the principle. Mr. George Cunningham, who, has been a resident of Point Molyneaux for the past thirty-six years, died on Wednesday night at the age of 74. As a' young man he served in the British Army and took part in the Indian Mutiny under General Whitelock, who' 1 captured Budaon on 19th April. 1858. The deceased possessed the .Mutiny medal, of which he was naiurally very proud. He was a noted draughts player : in the opinion of some experts One. of the best in the world, 'and on the occasion of the Herd Laddie's visit to New Zealand Mr. Cunningham met him on equal terms at the checkered board and beat him.