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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 85, 8 October 1915, Page 6

The Hon. Dr. Pomare (Minister in j charge of the Cook Islands) left on Wednesday last for the Cook Islands, where he will medically examine the contingent of Niue Islanders who have volunteered for the front. "The Government seems to be able to, find any amount of money for schemes which appeal to it. When a scheme of the other sort is suggested it pleads poverty, and stresses the need of economy during the period of the war." — Councillor J G. Smith, at last night's meeting of the Onslow Borough Council. For some time past the WellingtonLyttetton ferry service has been rather slack, but with the approach of the hohctay season things are apparently "looking up" once more. The ferry steamer Maori, from Lyttelton this morning, was a full ship, there being no fewer than 617 passengers — 241 saloon and 376 steerage^ — aboard. Passengers coming to New Zealand by the R.M.S. Turakina, due at Auckland to-morrow afternoon from London, include 49 "assisted" immigrants, all being sepa.ra.ted relatives of residents of the Dominion. The Ruapehu, due next month, is bringing 116 "assisted" immigrants, 32 of whom are domestic servants, the remainder being separated relatives. Old boys of the training ship Amokura have not turned a, deaf ear to the call for men, and it is the proud record of the ship that there are over 60 of the old boys at present in the firing line. Three have already been killed and several wounded, while there are a number proceeding to the front with the next reinforcement® or going into camp at an early date. ! Owing to the number of teachers who i have enlisted from the Wanganui Education Board's district (states the Chronicle), and the number of others who have taken the preliminary steps, there is a probability of some of the smaller schools 'vrithin easy distance of other schools being temporarily closed. The possibility of conveying pupils to school is now under consideration.' Representations are to be made to the Government by the Onslow Borough Council stressing the " urgent necessity of providing suitable and safe access across the railway lines at Khandallah and Ngaio Tailway stations." Both places are said to be extremely dangerous to pedestrians, especially children, and >at a meeting of the council last night the Government's delay in dealing with the matter was severely commented upon. Golfers frequenting the- Miramar Links go out in considerable numbers on Saturday afternoons and Sundays, when the fare on the Miramar trams is doubled, except for residents having concession tickets. The new Golf Club house, however, is built just a few hundred yards into the Miramar boundary, and the ride from the city "frontier" thither is considered to be too costly for so short a distance. The club asks for a, stopping place at the new Club House, also concession tickets for the trams, considering the small service done. The stopping place asked for was granted by the council last evening, but the proposed concession ticket was not agreed to. A returned New Zealander, Mr.. J B. Reid, of Elderslie, South Canterbury, states that the people of this Dominion cannot be sufficiently grateful to Lord and Lady Plnnket for all that they have done for the wounded New Zealand soldiers now in England. In order to live close to the hospital provided by the New Zealand War Contingent's Association at Walton on the Thames, Lord and Lady Plunket have given up their home in London, and Miss Plunket, the ex-Governor's sister, and his daughters are doing servants' work in the hospital. Lady Plunket is a daily visitor, and Lord Plunket divides his time between bis town office and the hospital The New Zealand ladies who are giving their services at the hospital are doing excellent work, and motor-cars and other vehicles are constantly placed at the service of the convalescents. " Lover of Trees " protests that the City Council is "allowing the best spot^ in Newtown Park to be used a« a site' for a secondhand house. . ■<. To build it in this place fchey are about to cut down trees that afford the only shelter { to the Zoo." The matter was referred to the Mayor, who stated that the spot I selected for the keeper's house was in the opinion of the committee and himself* the best position for the purpose for which it was Tequired. As for the material of which the house was being constructed, it came from a thoroughly good and nearly new house, which the council had to remove at the Kilbirnie tramway extension in Crawford-road. In these times there was no justification for spending the citizens' money upon absolutely new building material when such good timber as was being used in the Zoo keeper's house was available. Mr. J. B. Reid, the well-known stockbreeder, of Elderslie, South' Canterbury, who returned from a -visit to England and America .yesterday by the steamer Moana, states that wounded New Zealanders in the Old Country were warm in their praise as to the work performed by the New Zealand War Contingents' Association. The president of the association is the Hon. Thomas Mackenzie (High Commissioner) ; Lord Plunket (an ex-Governor of New Zealand) Ts chairman; Mr F. J. Waldegrave (ex-Secre-tary of the Justice Department) is secretary; and Lady Islington (wife of an exGovernor of New Zealand) is at the head of the Ladies' Committee. One of the branch hospitals of the association is a beautiful country home, once the residence of the Tankervilles, at Walton. It is situated in one of the most beautiful reaches of the Thames, between Walton-on-Thames and Hampton Court, and the hospital has fifteen to twenty acres of ground, with a large frontage to the river, planted with ' the choicestEnglish trees. Two inquests were held yesterday by Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., Coroner, concerning the death of a newly-born female infant, whose body was found on the Porirua beach on Saturday morning, and a five-months-old child named Alice Veronica Doody. In the former case Dr. H. A. H. Gilmer stated that the cause of death was neglect at birth, and that death had taken 'place before the infant's body had been placed in the water. In the latter case death was caused by the accidental overlaying of the body by the child's mother. Verdicts were returned by Cooper in accordance with the medical evidence. Two wants of the khaki man, stocked at Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., Manners-street, Khaki Handkerchiefs at 6d and 9d ; good range suitable socks Is to 2s 6d. — Advt. Work good, charges reasonable, promptitude ! That's our service. We pass entries, forward parcels, move furniture. The N.Z. Express Co., Ltd., 87-91, Customhouse-quay. — Advt.' The moving pictures have developed to such an extent during- recent y<sars that now we are able to see actual reproductions of events from all parts of the world. It was stated a few days ago that, in spite of the war pressure in France, the Paris fashions were still keeping up, and similar styles to those screened are now in view in C. Smith's Millinery and Mantle Showrooms. There are smart model hats from 17* 6d to 47s 6d each, and dainty white pique oos. fumes at 32s 6d each. C. Smith, Ltd., Cubjv.frtrcet, The Dia.peu.-Adv>