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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 124, 27 May 1913, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL The unusually thick fog which overspread the harbour last night proved a serious hindrance to the ferry boat which left the city at 10.15. No lights or guide of any kind could be seen on the journey across, and the Cobar, was compelled to proceed at half speed. The working of the Rona Bay wharf was not attempted, and guided by the beating of tin cans on the shore the vessel reached Day's Bay at a late hour. Medical reports on tho health of the boys of tho public schools of Eastbourne (England) show that many of th-em are physically below tbe normal standard, states a cable message to the Sydney Sun. They are tired, alow, and aneemic. Moat of them avo fagged out before they begin their lessons. Many of the boy« Avho are under twelve years old, continues the report, work in the factories for from three to eight hours on school days and from twelve .to fourteen hours on Saturdays. Looking for a ga* leak -with a naked light was the cause of the File Brigade being called yesterday evening to th© shop of J. Griffith*, a second-hand dealer irr Courtenay-place. The flames wer© quickly extinguished, only a shelf of goods being damaged. Griffiths had one of his hands badly burned. The slaughtermen's strike, the President of the Farmers' Union (Mr. J. G. Wilson) said at Masterton to-day j was 1 a lesßon to the farmer, who mast in his own interests be prepared, if occasion requires, to man the boards. In some instances this was done during the strike, and the force of example had 9 most beneficial effect. It had ehowa the freezing companies that the place of the slaughtermen could be filled by outside labour, and that it was necessary to have a constant supply of learners coming on to take the place of those giving up this class of work from varioub causes. It also brought up a very important point in connection with the Arbitration Court. Too often it ww not thoae who had to pay in the end that appeared in the Court against increases. If the case was lost, the cost was passed on to others. There should be some provision made whereby those' who ultimately had to pay the increased cost should have the* nght to be represented in,* Court. It was tho old question of taxation without representation. N In the opinion of Captain Eckford, who has been trading out of Wellington for a great many years, and for soma time past has been directing his attention to the fishing industry, there i»no part 'qf New Zealand waters which abounds in more ash than Palliser Bay. Unfortunately, however, portions of tlie bottom of the buy are studded with rocks, and unless trawlers are careful great damage is done to the nets. Captain Kokford, who is the principal owner of the Energy, says that if it were not for the rocks lid would be able to obtain sufficient fish in Palliser to keep tlie Wellington market fully supplied with fish all tlie year round. | On a recent occasion his steamer, with no less than 82 feet of water under her to«l got one of her big nets entangled in some of the rocky projections, and it was practically ruined. Losses of that kind mean the sweeping away of the profits of one, if not two, previous successful trips. As the result of several expeditions ho has obtained bearings which vrjll enable him to keep to the safe portions of thd bay in future. The Energy returned to Wellington yesterday with a big load of fish, principally floundfrs and gufnard, from Pelorous Sound. Several new fishing grounds were discovered. The remarkable usefulness of wireless telegraphy in communicating with ships at sea has just been once more demonstrated, and the illustration is of local interest (says the Otago Daily Times). A few days ago the pilot staff at the Heads notioed a steamer belonging to tho Union Steam Ship Company many miles away, heading for the harbour, but whil* the sea near the shore was. free from fog, a dense mass of watery vapour lay athwart the track of the incoming ye* sel. The men at the Heads saw th* steamer approach tho fog bank, and then stop. Tb* captain evidently thought that the fog extepfed right up to tlie Heads, and was disinclined to (eel his way in under the circumstances. A little white lftter, however, tho h«N bour officials at tbe Heads raoeived a telephonic communication from the company's office *t Dunedtfi asking if tta boat in question had otnne under their observation. Tho osco \**a informed that she was lying out off the fog bank, but thai, inshore th» WMlh«r nw qoito deaf. Tiio vrjraltss UKteft&tion on one of the steamers at the Dunedin vharf w&4 at once brought into sta'Vioe, the steamer outeide "called up," and her captain informed that she could with safety steam through tha vapoury obstruction. Tha vessel w»s Boon swallowed up in the fog, to reappear shortly after on its inshore side, and continued hot journey safely to port. "Back again," ejaculated Councillor Cox at last night's meeting of Iho Petone Borough CoAiucil when a loiter wsvs read in which Messis. P. A. Fay ajid Co. made application for a permit to carry on fellmongering at premises situated in Jackson-street extension. Plane and specifications were forwarded, The application was granted, subject to the work set forth in the plans and speci* fications being carried out satisfactorily under the supervision of the borough engineer. For to-morrow and the vest of the week Kirkc&lddti and Stains, I*td., tu* offering a manufacturers' ranee of ladies' toilet table requisites at lialf tho usunt marked prices. -nAdvt. Customs entries made and passed by expert men. Goods forwarded or sorted. Shipping and forwarding agents to all parts of the world. The CJolonial Carrying Company, Ltd., 107>109 A Custom-Lousg-su.fty.—A4n,