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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 121, 23 May 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL To.nighl the Sporte Edition of The Post will be published as usual. The heavy rain of the past week has rendered nece*sary the postponement of the hockey matches at Karori and the "soccer" game which was to have taken place on the Basin Reserve, bul oil other fixtuiei* will be played, and full reports of thcue will be published. Special attention will be paid to senior Rugby, more particularly the" match between Athletic and Oriental (at Athletic Park), which is sure to provide an exciting contest. In addition to the results of the field sports in other parts of New Zealahd, a review of the racing at Wanganui will be given. Important changes in connection with prison administration are in prospect. It is intended to close the Lyttellon Gaol, which is obsolete, and to erect another prison for the Canterbury district on a more suitable site in tho country. .The Terrace Gaol is also to be closed, and when the Waikeria buildings are ready most of the prisoners now in the Terrace Gaol will be removed to that institution. Subsequently there will be erected in or near Wellington a small prison, capable of accommodating some seventy or eighty prisoners, which will be .Used only for those who are serving short sentences or awaiting trial. The Postal authorities advise that tho s.b. Riverina, which sailed from Sydney on tho 20th for Auckland, is bringing Australian mails, and also an English mail via Suez. The Wellington portion is duo por Main Trunk express on Monday next.' The Prime Minister (Right Hon. W. F. Massey) will deliver a political address at Invercargill on Wednesday evening. The same evening t3ie Hon. V. M. B. Fisher will speak at Now Brighton (Canterbury). The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) has received £24 5b from the Wellington Football Association towards the Upper Hutt Disaster Fund. The amount was raised as a result of the match played on tho 9th instant. A deputation representing unlicensed plumbers asked the Hon. R. H. Rhodes yesterday that some modification should be effected in the theoretical branch of the examination which has to bo passed before a plumber can be licensed. Tho Minister said he would see if anything could be done in the matter. The Government has decided to furnish annually, free of charge, to all District High Schools, a copy of the Now Zealand Year Book. " A welcome notification," commented Mr. R. Lee, when the letter was read at yesterday's meeting of the Education Board. The Education Board has approved the proposal of the Petone Technical School Board to establish a branch nt- Upter Hutt, The Chief Inspector fully ei<dorsed the idea, and the chairman (Mr. U. Lee) did likewise. Much success In 3 already attended Mr, J. Lynskey (director of the Petone School) in his efforts to enrol pupils. The new valuation of the Whakatane County, which came into force on Ist April, is a few pounds off £1,000,000. showing an increase of about 50 per cent, on the previous valuation, At its last meeting the County Council, in view of its strained financial position, fixed a general rate over the whole county of l^d in the £. This is calculated to produce £5200, or nearly £1000 more than the rate collected last year. Tho Australasian Conference of Defo gatob, of Grand Lodges of Druids will open in Dunedin next Monday. The North Island Grand Lodge will be represented by Bros. Alfred Thompson, of. Auckland, Grand President, and. J. N. Grant, of Wellington, Grand -Secretary, who will leave for Dunedin to-night. Bros. R. A. Barry (Grand President) and Goldstein (Grand Secretary), of 14i» New South WaW Grand Lodge, arrived in Wellington by the Willochra on Wednesday. The other Australian delegates will arrive at the Bluff next Monday. Tho Crimee arrived at Marseilles the other day with a hundred tons weight of little sacks on board, which gave a metal clink as they dropped' from the cranes. Three or four other ships of the Messageries Maritimes unloaded smaller quantities of little bags, and all the bags have been sent on to Belgium. They contain bullets which have been collected on tho battlefields of tho Balkanß (the Daily Express says). They are going to Waterloo, where they will be -sold to tourists as relics. The stock of genuine Waterloo bullets gave out sonic time ago, and the demand is very steady. The Balkan war will now supply a long-felt want. "At a period when it appeared to be nobody's ousiness to prevent the beau* tiful property at Day's Bay from, going under the auctioneer's hammer, and being cut up into building sites," Btates the annual report of the Sports Protection League, "the league was able to give very material assistance in promoting a deputation to the Prime Minister. After the Prime Minister had promised lo place the sum of £4000 on tho Estimates towards the acquisition of the property, tho office of the league proved an ideal place from which to conduct the campaign to find the balance of tho money required, which afterwards followed with such marked success; and tho secretary devoted a great deal of his time and energy to produce this gratifying result." A striking example of the itinerancy - of the average Government official was mentioned to a Southland Times reporter on Wednesday, when it was stated that tho entire personnel of tho local Customs office staff had changed during the past fifteen months, and that the official of longest standing had not served longer than that timo in the local office. Upon onquiry being made this statement was confirmed, and it was further stated that tho last of the old staff had only a few days previously received notice of his transfer. The lastname* official had been threa years in the local office, and next in order of length of service came a cadet who had served fifteen months. The last transfer means that from Collector of Cus toms to cadet the staff is entirely changed, and a new generation of officials is to-day attending to the woik of the department. "Notwithstanding the passing of the Shops Act (winch only legalised the haltholiday) thousands ol young men and women in our largo towns and cities, aro istill working in the hhops until 9 and 10 o'clock nightly v.nd until midnight <m Saturdays, to tho detriment of thoir health, strength, and mental development," states a circular sent throughout the Empire by the English Early Closing Association, which h> appealing • for funds. As far bock as 188* a Wellington Early Closing Association sent «. sum to aid the present society, and gave details of a successful convert at the Thoaifo Royal to raise funds for the reform. Those who sympathise with English men and women who are obliged to work tho round of the <clock every day (except Sunday) are invited to help in a movement to overcome the powerful opposition of selfish interests. This wilt bo dono by sending money to the association's treasurer, Alderman T. Lyne, 3, Tudor-utreet, E.C., London. Wellington's busiest boy competition closes next Saturday, 30th May. Boys who are keen on winning that £85 motor bike will have to got very busy during the next few days. Numbers 18, 356, 76, 383, 70, and 1 are in the load. Boys, get busy. Kirkcaldie &ad Stains.— Advt.