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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1915, Page 6

Members of the Reserves Committee of the City Council, accompanied by the City Engineer (Mr. W. H. Morton), yesterday made a tour of the city reserves, and inspected sites suitable for use as refuse and manure depots. Under the City Engineer's scheme depots will be established at various points, and the refuse will be collected by motor vehicle. The Engineeivwill report to the council upon the matter to-morrow night. Potatoes are among the commodities that have advanced in price of late, the present quotation being £8 10s per ton. There is a strong demand from Australia, and it is reported that holders in South Canterbury decline to quote, as they prefer to hold their stocks for export. Ab mentioned yesterday, an Order-in-Council has been issued by His Excellency the Governor, prohibiting the further export of this staple article of food. "I don't think we shall have more ships between here and Britain this coming season than last season," eaid Mr. Massey at Palmorston North yesterday, "and > all over New Zealand I hope there will be an increase made in the freezing space. That is absolutely necessary." .",. . Later he said : "I want to Btrike a note of warning; I want the people to mako the best arrangements for storing in the coming I season." , , The case of a boy, over the age of twelve years, who rode on the tramways from Karori to the Government Buildings on a child's concession ticket, took up a portion of the time of the Karori Borough Council's meeting last night. The tramway traffic superintendent nad reported the case, and had asked the council to take action in the matter. It was resolved, as this was the first case of its kind to come before the council, to severely caution the boy, aa well as his parents. The wife of a German subject has made application to the Hawera Hospital Board for charitable aid. It appears that her husband, a hairdresser by occupation, i 3 now out of employment, and unable to get any other work. Tho board approved of tie secretary's action in granting temporary assistance, but it was resolved to refer the case to the authorities at Wellington. The latest circular to boards, says an exchange, mentions that the Government will contribute half the cost of relief afforded to enemy subjects coming on tho board for assistance. Adjutant Greene (late of Wellington) the Salvation Army chapliri in Egypt, wntes to the chief secretary (Lieut. -Col. Powley) giving him a most re-assuring account of how wounded New Zealanders and Australians are being cared for in the hospitals. He says that "our people take great care of those who fall with wounds. The hospital trains are beautifully equipped, and the best buildings are taken and fitted as hospitals, the attendance being all that can be desired. . . . The wounded men are in great glee, and are all looking forward to getting back." He adds that he had just concluded his first funeral from the front— that of Private Piper, of the Otago Battalion. A claim and counter-claim respecting the tenancy of a house in Cambridgeterrace were heard by Mr. W. G. Riddell^ S.M., yesterday afternoon. The garties to the dispute were W. H. uilford and Co. (sometimes known as H. W. D&vies and Co.), plaintiffs, v. J. S. Hamey, bootmaker, , defendant. Plaintiff claimed £7 4s from defendant, this amount representing alleged damage and removal of property by defendant while renting from plaintiffs the house in Cambridge - terrace. Defendant counter-claimed for £3 12s, being the refund of money alleged to have been paid to plaintiffs under compulsioa for two \veeks' rent of the premises. The Magistrate gave judgment for plaintiffs for £S3 10s,, with costs (£2 14s) in the claim, and on the counter-claim defendant was nonsuited. Mr. E. J. Fitzgibbon appeared for plaintiffs,, and Mr. F. E. Petherick for defendants:/ There was a small order-paper at the meeting oi the Karori Borough Council held last evening. Those present were: The Mayor (Mr. B. G. H. Burn) and. Councillors W. C. Cooper, L. P. Daviea, R. Faire, A. Hamilton, T. W. Lewer, R. T. PelL J. G. Baine, and W. Skegg. Several local bodies forwarded copies of resolutions passed in connection with the circular letter issued by the Karori Coun» cil protesting against the continual rise in the expenditure of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. The Works Committee recommended the Finance Committee to endeavour to raise the money for the erection of a caretaker's cottage at the Park, in accordance with the plan submitted. When the loan waa raised for the purchase of the Park, an area of two chaina deep, parallel with the main road, was set aside for the purpose of erecting dwellings for tenants, and the site for the proposed cottage is on this area. The recommendation was considered favourably by councillors. An arrangement (telegraphs the Auckland correspondent of The Post) has been provisionally made by the committee of the Auckland Automobile Association to provide club rooms for the members of the association by securing for them the use of the Pacific Club's premises. A memorandum by the cpmmittee states that the committee resolved on Bth October, 1912, that upon the membership reaching 300 steps should be taken to obtain a clnb house. As the membership of the association is now nearly 400, the committee has recently taken the question into consideration, but in view of the serious i financial difficulty in the way of acquiring and furnishing premises the committee submits a proposal that, upon payment to the Pacific Club of the sum of £200 per annum, the members of the association will be given full use of the Pacific Club's rooms. The report states thafc the benefit of these club rooms can be obtained without any increase in the annual subscription. It is suggested that the arrangement should be for twelve months, at the end of which time the conditions will be reviewed. The first general meeting of the newlyformed New Zealand Shorthorn Cattlebreeders' Association is to be held in Wellington on the 15th of next month. Mr. 0. B. Pemberton, secretary of the Canterbury A. and P. Association, is secretary of the new association. The Feilding Patriotic Society has engaged the services of Professor Cardston to organise a carnival to be heT3 during August. Handkerchief selections — Every man can afford a good supply at oi\r price. White 3d to Is 9d, khaki for troops 6d and 9d, coloured borders 6d each. GeoFowlds.— Advt. Time and trouble considered, ifc pays to delegate your Customs work to the N.Z. Express Co. Entries are passed efficiently, and goods delivered promptly. 87-91, Customhouse-quay. — Advt. Tfua week's > 'Frisco mail brings news of a great scarcity of blankets, particularly woollen blankets, an 3 considerably higher in price, with indications of still further advance, as thoro is no prospect of the supply of wool "boing equal to the demand. Luckily, O. Smith, Ltd., of Cuba-street, have the longest range of both English and Now Zealand Blankets _ on record this season, and in no case will prices bo advanced on tho present stocks: Single bed size, English 10s lid, New Zealand 19s 6d and 21e ; three-quarlor size, English 153 6d, New Zealand 27s 6d aud 29s 6d; double bus size, English 19s 6d, New Zealand 32a 9d, 35s 9d, and 425. We advise all wh«j c»n to tutfchtuM» immediately.— Advt.