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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1915, Page 6

Tho arrivals in the Dominion during the month of February numbered 2251 (against 3717 in February of last year) and the departures 1995 (againist 3410 in February, 1914), leaving a net gain to the population of 256. During tho foui weekß ended 9th March, th© inspectors of the Hospital Board investigated 35 cases of infectious diseases, as follow '.—Scarlet fever 9, diphtheria 7. tuberculosis 12, enteric fever 2, chickenpox 4," blood-poisoning 1. Purchase of a motor generator for charging accumulators, the motor am> bulance, and for X-rays, a supply of linoleum and laundry sheeting, two 'electric hand lamps for the Seddon Hospital nurses, and an extra fanlight for Ward V. haa been authorised by the Hospital Board. Mr. Knox, Gilmer, president, of the Wellington Dental Association, has made a donation of 42 guineas to commemorate the opening ol the Dental Depart' ment. At the meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board yesterday the donor was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. About four acres of land lias been purchased by the Tramway Committee for the sum of £1600 at Onepu-road, for carshed purposes. The purchase was confirmed by the City Council last evening. Tlie new site will be used to re> lieve the congestion at tho present carsheds. Complaint was made to the Auckland police yesterday that further damage had been done in Queen-street by the slashing of windows with a. diamond. Examination by the police showed that no fewer than four plate-glass sheets had been more or less seriously damaged. In one ease at least it is expected that the windows will have to be replaced. "These alleged conversations are often set up and they are very unsatisfactory," snid Mr. Jtißtice Stringer, in the Arbitration Court to-day. "If they are put in they should be in writing and preferably signed. There is always a great conflict, as both parties are interested." His Honour was referring to a conversation between an injured man and the clerk in the insurance office when he went to make a claim. Enquiries are being made by the Finance Committee of the City Council a* to the merit of the request of the General Labourers' Union for increased wages, and a report is to be made to tho next meeting of the council. A request from the same union for twelve days' continuous leave of absence on full pay' annually for the city drainage employees was not granted, as being likely to conflict with tho general holiday arrange- , ment* Discussion at the City Council last evening on the recommendation of the Finance Committee, "that an account from the Tramway Department, amount--big to £82 10«, being the amount of difference between what is charged to the charitable and other institutions for their passes and the wtimated full value, b« passed for payment," extended to the general question of the tramway enterprise and finance. Councillors suggested that stricter finance would ensure that in accounting the Tramways Department should be debited with a fixed sum per annum* for running rights through the streets. Further liabilities of the tramways were discussed academically, but nothing was done other than to pass the recommendation. The City Council is to be asked by the M«lroso Ratepayers' and Electors' Association to have the overhanging trees ut certain parts of turk-road removed, in order to keep the road in a drier condition, also to cut down th© scrub bordering the same road, this being tv menaoe to women and children, owing to undesirables harbouring in the broom, The abatement of the nuisance caused by cooking the animals' food for the. zoo is also to be urged, failing which the Health Department will be requested U> take action. The council is aUo to be asked to arrange for the completion of the dedication of all unformed streets in the district, and, in compliance with a recently-passed bylaw, to call on owners of property fronting such streets to fence thetr frontages. Another echo of the case Caldwell against the Union Steam Ship Company, a claim for £2000 damages in respect of the death of Thomas Caldwell, who was killed on Slat March, 1914, while working the Union Company's s.s. Maitai, was heard in the Supreme Court this morning, when his Honour Mr. Justice Edwards gave his reserved judgment on the motion for a new trial, which was heard before his Honour on 11th February, and his Honour, after reviewing very exhaustively authorities on the subject of granting new trials, made an order for a new trial, fixing the costs of the motion at £10 10s. There have been two trials already. In the first one the jury disagreed ; in the second trial the answers given by the jury to the issues submitted amounted in law to a judgment for the defendan 1 company. The effect of the judgment given to-day is practically to set aside that decision, and the case will be reheard. Nine residents of Ngaio waited on tho Onslow Borough Council last night regarding the question of a water supply. Mr Aplin pointed out that owing to the insufficient water supply considerable danger existed from outbreaks of fire. There was also the sanitary question to be considered. Mr. F. Holdsworth (formerly Mayor of Onslow) asserted that the men who wrote to the newspapers under a nom-de-plume did not have the interests of the borough at heart, and were merely thinking only of their own pockets. Other speakers said that the place was becoming stagnant and property was lying idle through the lack of a water supply scheme, and that the opponents of the scheme were mostly large landowners who were afraid of a little taxation. A petition signed by numerous ratepayers was presented to the council, requesting that a gravitation water scheme be submitted to the ratepayers. The Mayor said he hoped that the scheme would be put i through successfully, and that the big landowners in the borough would realise that the ratepayers wanted a water Biipply, He promised to have the matter discussed by the council and notify the deputation as scon as a decision was arrived at. At the meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board yesterday afternoon accounts wer« passed for payment as follow :— Wellington Hospital £3856 2s lOd ; Charitable Aid and Ohiro Home £285 Is 4d : Otaki Hospital and Sana torium £375 19s lid j Head Office, Public Health, etc, £264 16s 3d; total £4762 0s 4d. It will make you feel warm to inspect our new shipment of winter-weight Snirts. Prices run— 2s 6d, 2s lid, 3s lid, 4s 6d, 5s 6dj 6s 6d, 7s 6d, 9s 6d, 10s 6d. Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., Mannersstreet.— Advt. Travellers by score testify our checked baggage system. Wo collect, check on (rail, sea), receive, deliver at once. The New Zealand Express Co., Ltd., 87-91. Customhouse-quay.— Advt. The blockade in "English shipping circles hns in no way affected C. Smith's new season's shipments arriving irt good time for the early winter trade, and every department is full of tho choicest goods their London buyers uerc able to procure. A visit to that firm's drcs* department will well repay every lady who wants to procme the latest novelties in materials for this season. Samples will be posted to any lady unable to visib