MISCELLANEOUS

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

MISCELLANEOUS

DARGAVILLE, 7th March. Suspicion created by the prolonged absence of the chief clerk of the Wairoa '.Stores, Limited, led to an examination 1 of the books. Defalcations amounting 'to several hundred pounds are alleged to have been discovered. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of the absentee, who is supposed to have left the Dominion. NELSON, 7th March. The City Council decided to-night to take a poll of the ratepayers on a proposal 'to borrow £2500 for the construction of fresh water swimming baths. The tender of Messrs. Kirkpatrick has been ■ accepted by the Defence Department for the supply to Territorial camps of jam and coffee. The 'conditions include sixty thousand tins of jam and two and a-half tons of coffee. NAPIER, 6th March. The ceremony of turning the first sod in connection with the installation of the electric tramway system was performed this afternoon by the Mayor (Mr. J. Vigor Brown), in the presence of a goodly number of residents. DUNEDIN, 7th March. Mr. J. Mac Master's threshing mill was ( destroyed by fire at Mr. D, Barren's farm, .Arrowtown, this morning. The mill 'was being taken in to thresh a stack of barley, and a spark from the engine set the stack alight, the fire spreading to the mill. The mill was insured, but Mr. Mac Master will lose abbut £150. Mr. Barron, who lost a stack of 'barley and a small stack of oats, estimates his loss at about £100.