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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 6

Messrs. Johnston and Co., Ltd., are in receipt of cabled advice from their London agents forerasting a rise of 5 per cent, m the wool market. Messrs. E T Taylor and Co. have offered the Government the use of tho top floor of the Beehive Chambers, Courtenay-place, for invalided soldiers. From a list of results of University examinations published recently the name of A. G. Brockett, as having passed in torts, criminal law, evidence, and property (Part II.), was omitted. A novel method of raising funds for Belgian refugee relief has been discovered by a Wairarapa settler. He has offered to allow any person to shoot over his property for two days for game on the payment of £1 Is to the Belgian Fund. A request has been made to the Mayor of Wellington by the committee of the Commercial Travellers' Club that the sum of £1000 which it sent him should be transferred from the Mayor's Fund to the Patriotic Fund account, for which Messrs. Aitken and Luke are the trustees. A meeting of the 'Mayor's War Distress Committee was held yesterday, and j various orders made by his Wor- ' ship for the relief of distress were approved. A statement showed that the total receipts to date were £3568 9s 7d and the payments £591 17s 2d, leavingjS29'Z6 12s 5d available to carry on tho work. Notice has been given by Councillor Carver that he will move at Monday's meeting of the Lower Hutt Council as follows :—": — " That the resolution passed by the council meeting of the 24th May declining to accept a dedication of land at the end of Rata-street be rescinded, and that the council do now approve of and accept the dedication." Work has (says the Auckland Herald) been commenced on the section of the North Auckland Main Trunk railway from Kirikopuni southwards. A sum of £15,000 was some time ago voted for expenditure on this section of the Main Trunk line, and for many months Dargaville residents have made strong representations that a start should be made with the work. At the Labour Conference, which opens at the Esperanto Hall on 6th July, over fifty unions have already noti' fied their intention of being present, in addition to which Trades and Labour Councils will be represented from Dunedin, Christchurch, Auckland, and Napier, and the West Coast coalminers will be represented, through their federation. The effect of the war has been to take interest away from labour problems for some considerable time, but signs of a return of interest are exhibited in the many remits which ( have been sent in for discussion at the conference. Wellington is about the worst represented district in the whole Dominion. Great satisfaction was expressed by the New Zealand Alliance yesterday at the official declaration that the liquor going on to the hospital ship was not for beverage purposes, and that nohe of it can be used except by the approval of the senior medical officer. A strong p*t)lest was raised against "the action of the Licensing Committees in the Grey and Westland electorates, where the Magistrate and chairman of the committee had to openly declare, concerning the granting of certain licenses, that the spirit and intention of the Act were being violated, and that if it wore possible for him to resign his position on the committee he would do it." Some weeks ago the Lower Hutt Borough Council granted the local bowling_ club permission to lay a gas main to }te premises, all voting in favour of the application with the exception of Councillor Ball. The latter has now given notice to move at Monday's meeting of the council as follows :— " The Supreme Court having declared the conncil the owner of certain strips of land (Martin sub-division), which as yet' have not been proved to be roads, the council asks are we justified in laying along on© of those strips of land a gas main for the purpose of supplying gas to a private consumer." Councillor Ball has also given notice to ask the following question at the same meeting :—": — " A. payment is made which later on is disallowed by the Government Auditor, and a refund is ordered to be made— w]jat is the position of the_ minority of the council who voted against the said payment ?" School children will now be received at the new school in Brittomart-street, South Wellington. On Tuesday the Minister for Education will officially open the school, which will accommodate 450 children. The building stands on a tweacre section, and is 129 feet wide by 84 feet deep. It is built of brick and concrete, with cement facings. There are eight rooms, including two class-rooms, each 30 feet by 24 feet, which can be made into one large room by throwing back folding doors. The other rooms measure 26 feet by 24 feet. The building hae been well designed for school purposes, giving ample light and air. Heating will be by hot-water pipes, so that the rooms will oe evenly warmed when required. There is abundant playing epace and roomy play-shelters for the children in bad weather Th© contractor was Mr F Sanders, and the contract price for the work £6000. Colour-Sergt. Eawlings, X.0.5.8., formerly military instructor at CastleDouglas, has just been gazetted 2nd lieutenant. A Kirkcudbrightshire journal states he is a native of New Zealand, and comes of a family of soldiers, his grandfather having fought at Waterloo, and his father being all his life a soldier. Lieut. Rawlings has himself seen a considerable amount of fighting service in the Army, both in India and in South Africa. In the Boer war he was present at the defence of Wepener, when the Colonial Division, to which he was attached, held out with 1400 men against General de Wet with 10,000 Boers and 13 guns. He was also present at General Prinsloo's surrender of 5000 Boers and 10 guns in the Withebergen Mountains. For his eervice on these occasions he was awarded the South African medals— King's and Queen's, with six clasps. During the term of his office in Castle-Douglas, Mr. Rawlings did much by his energy and enthusiasm to raise the membership of the local company. As one every inch a soldier, a great favourite with all who know him, he has received numerous congratulations on bis promotion from the officers under whom he had served. Daniel Breen, a middle-aged man, died suddenly at Petone yesterday. An inquest will be held on Monday next. Handkerchief selections— Every man can afford a good supply at our price. White 3d to Is 9d, khaki for troops 6d and 9d, coloured borders 6d each. GeoFowlds.— Advt. Time and trouble considered, it 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. TfiTs week's 'Frisco mail brings news of a great scarcity of blankets, particularly woollen blankets, and considerably higher in price, with indications of still farther *dvance, as there is no proepect of tho RuppW of wool being equal to the demand. Luclniy, C. Smith, Ltd., of Cuba-street, have the longost range of botb English and New Zealand Blankets on record this season, and in no case will prices bo advanced c>n the present stocks: Singlo bed size, English 10s lid, New Zealand IDs 6d and 21a; three-quarter size, English 15s od, New Zealand 27e Gd and 29s 6d ; double bed size, English 19s 6d, New Zealand 32<5 9d, 35a 9d, and 425. Wo advise all who can to purchase immediately,—