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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 45, 21 February 1917, Page 8

To-day is Ash Wednesday—the first! . day of Lent. A correspondent writes from Petone complaining of the : price at which bread is sold over, the counter in that locality. He state* that.though the bread is procurable in Wellington'and Lower Hurt shops at 5d per "loaf, 'all the Petone) tradesmen are selling, at s^d, whether delivered or called for. Petone being.a working-class community; a reduced rate over the counter would represent a real saving to purchasers. The Supreme Court will be engaged to-morrow with' the hearing of a civil . action in which Richard Wright is claiming £501 damages from the New' Zealand Shipping Company as damages for alleged injuries received. The case will be heard before a common jury of twelve.. ■■'■'•.'". The new steel suspension bridge afc Upper Hutt, which has been designed and constructed by Mr. Joseph Dawson, of Pabiatua, wiE.be opened by Mr. T.M. Wilford, M.P., on Friday afternoon. The ceremony will bs followed by a , banquet. : ; ■ . It was mentioned in the' Magistrate's Court to-day that two persons who had been arrested on charges of being helplessly drunk had sines been sent to the Porirua Mental Hospital. The charges ■were, oi course, withdrawn.

. Mr. W. J. Napier, of Auckland^ arrived from the North by the express yesterday afternoon.

Among tho Auckland recomnvjndations to the Dominion conference of the Society for the Promotion of the Health of Women and Children is one. that ai war bonus should be given to the Plunket nurses, arid after the war an increase of salary. The Auckland branch wishes to establish a cottage hospital, and it also urges further legislation dealing with the milk supply and closer inspection of cattle; also that more of the. nurses should be trained at Karitane. Wellington remits include the suggestion that no holidays should be granted to Plunket nurses during the .hot months of January, February, and March, and that hospital boards should be asked to ( allow a Plnnket, nurse to attend daily i to supervise '■ and grade .humanised milk for baby patients:

The relative, merits of macadam and concrete roads' were the subject of some discussion at this morning's sitting of. the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers. Mr. S. Jickell, of Palmerston North, extolled the virtues of the macadam roads in-his district, and Mr. A. J. Paterson. (Wellington) said that the macadam road to stand any traffic had yet to be made, and if the roads Mr. Jickell spoke of had to stand the traffic on the Hutt-road, there would be a different, story. to tell. Mr. Jickell: "You have no good material on the Hutt road." . Mr. Paterson': "Well, I don't know; I think the material on the Hutt road is pretty good, but the traffic, is very fierce." ' . ' .

' At a general meeting of. the Miners' Union at Waihi a letter was read- from the Ohinemuii branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers urging the co-operation of the union in boycotting Germany and forming an anti-German Government Department. It was resolved, "That this meeting does not desire to accede to the request, as it considers that a more. important step is necessary,' namely, to get the Engineers' Society to co-operate wife the union in an endeavour to prevent the local mining companies from boycotting residents of the town, and preventing a man from earning a loaf of bread wherewith to provide for his wife and family."

Tenders are invited for the atock in the bankrupt estate of George Halliday, watchmaker and jeweller, Wliangarei. "

Messrs. J. H. Bethuue and Co. will sell on Wednesday next, at 2.30 p.nv., at thoir rooms, Featherston-street, in conjunction with Messrs. Harcourt and Co., a 6-room-ed house, No. 22, Chatli&m-strcct (comer of Dawson-strect). ' ' ".

Miss Doris Guise, teacher o£ dancing and deportment, will resume tuition on Saturday, 3rd March., at 7, Stephen-street.

The Seatoun Sewing Guild will hold a garden party a» Mrs. Paul's, Karaka Bay, in aid of the Red Cross Fund, on, Satarda y , afternoon. Messrs. Williams and Co., Ltd., wall eel! in the Auction Arcade, Courtsuay* place, to-morrow, at 2 p.m.,: stationer's, stock and furniture.