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Evening Star, Issue 17838, 8 December 1921, Page 6

Tho City Council last evening decided that the salary of tho tramways manager be increased from tho present rate of £SOO to £6OO per annum, in view of the additional duties which he had been called upon to perform’ since taking over tho office from his predecessor. ,

Cr Hancock told tho City Council last evening that special efforts were now being made by the Sanitary Department to rid the city of both rubbish and rats. '‘ We have heard to-day,” said the councillor, “that there are 100 cases of plague in Australia, mid there is no saying what will happen.” Cr Scott: “And yet we have no crematorium.” Cr Tapley said that there was no good neldngoltizons to exterminate rata unless something in that direction was done on tho waterfront. It was necessary to have the co-operation of tho Harbor Board in clearing the waterfront of rats.

Whether pedestrians should keep to tho right or to tho left when passing _ along tho street was a subject of discussion at tho mooting of the City Council last night. A clause in, tho Works Committee’s report recommended for adoption a proposal made by tho Wellington Council to introduce in the main centres of the Dominion regulations requiring pedestrians to keep to the left instead of to tho right as at prosent. Tho change had been introduced in Wellington, and tho Wellington Council considered it would bo advisable for tho now rule to bo observed in tho four centres if confusion was to bo avoided. Tho majority of councillors expressed themselves in favor of tho charge; but soveral opposed any alteration. In reply to a question Cr Wilson (chairman of.the committee) said the rule could hardly bo made mandatory, as it was not likely ft bylaw would be passed compelling people to keep to one side. Tho recommendation of tho committed was adopted.

An An«tmlinn mail, ex the Ulimaroa at We'.'i : . lied Dunedin this after*

noon. ' It-comprised three bags and three hampers from Sydney, three hags from Melbourne, and one hag each from Brisbane, Adelaide, and Hobart. Tho contents will be delivered In tho city, and suburbs to-morrow morning.

■ It is understood that a well-known resident who occupied an important position in an Invercargill firm, along with his family, folded his belongings and stole silently away by tho express the other morning, thereby causing considerable consternation among a number of tradespeople (states the ‘ Southland Times ’). Developments are expected. The golf match to ho played on Saturday afternoon next between Mr Wilkie Bard and a well-known local player will present some very novel features. Mr Wilkie Bard is no mean player of "yo ancient game,” and may bo depended upon to illustrate what can_.be achieved at tho hands of a past master. The match has been arranged for the benefit of tho Blanket Society. Afternoon tea will be provided.

A promise has been given to the lieturned Soldiers’ Association by the Prime Minister that he will accede to its request for the regrading and reclassification of pensions. lie will also _ have a Commission appointed to inquire into tho increased pensions asked for. The Commission will he set up during the recess, and the He turned Soldiers’ Association will be consulted oa to its personnel With reference to the proposal to establish a summer school for subnormal children of our primary schools, Da' Macredy and Dr Irwin waited upon tho Education Board this morning. Dr Macredy explained that he was very keen on having the idea put into practice, as ho thought the result would be to raise many children from subnormal to normal condition. It was proposed that tiro camp should be held for eight weeks, and that provision bo made for fifty children. The chief difficulty ‘ was the question of a site, and Hampden was generally thought to bo the most suitable place. The board discussed tho proposal and favored the collecting of pennies from school children and the holding of concerts for tho purpose of raising funds to establish the school.

In a paragraph published in. these columns -yesterday it was stated that many passengers by the seaside train to Warrington book only to Evansdalc, awl that , the additional faro is not always collected. the inference- being .that the journey between Evansdalo and Warrington ia so short that there is net time to collect the extra, faros. This paragraph, it may bo mentioned, was founded on representations made to tho Railway Department by persons who seek to hay© the seaside service remodelled. They argued that fares would be missed, and they now say that fares are missed. To-day Mr W. Bowles, traffic manager, was asked by a reporter how matters stand, and ho replied that lie has no knowledge of any evasion of tho payment of fares. Mr Bowles also took occasion to remark that if any passengers are acting in that way they bring theniselses nothin tho penalty clauses of tho regulations. The onus is on a passenger if ho gets in at a station where there is no officer 'to tender his faro to the guard, not to wait till the guard asks for it. Recently a Dunedin magistrate fined a man for not tendering his faro in a trafnear. Tito case of the railway passenger is much worse, for if ho shows an Evansdalo ticket tho guard may reasonably assume that he is travelling only as far as Evansdalo,. and tho mute tendering by a person who is really going to Warrington is a false pretence.

Dunedin ironmasters still find business very quiet, though no worse than at any time during the past threo months, and the foundries are hardly able to keep tho regular hands going. Tho slackness ia most felt by tho agricultural implement makers. Farmers, driven to economy, a*© making the old implements serve for another season. Tho price of raw material ia steadily coming down, so it is hoped that if the cost of production cheapens, oven by a little, and farmers begin to feel eomowhat safer financially, the iron industry will revive in that particular line. Tho negotiations as to an agreement between the-Dunedin City Council and the Government for the supply of electric energy in bulk—that is to say, for the supply of power fox tho main high-tension arterial electric lino that is to bo constructed from Lake Coleridge to Waipori —have advanced a step. The Minister of Public Works has communicated with tho Electric Power Department of the City Council, putting forward certain suggestions which have been considered by the E.P. and L. Committee, and the committee has sent on to the Minister for his perusal its findings on those suggestions. Tho proposal is to bring in the Government as a customer for Waipori power to bo fed in to the arterial line and join up with tho power that is to como from Lake Coleridge. Tho matters requiring adjustment ate being steadily narrowed down, and it is quite probable that an agreement satisfactory to both parties will shortly be arrived at.

Tho first of the new season’s dried fruits from California will l como to Dunedin next Tuesday—prunes, figs, muscatels, .and seeded raisins—in plenty of time for tho Christmas trade.

In submitting her last report to-day to the Board of Governors of the Otago Boys’ and Girls’ High Schools, the lady principal of the Girls’ School (Miss Flora M. Allan) wrote that she desired to thank tho members, of the heal'd, tho secretary (Mr C. R. M’Lean), and liis predecessor (Mr P. J. Ness) for tho kindness and consideration accorded during the tin years that she had been principal and tho twenty-one years preceding in which sho was a member of the teaching staff. “My interest in tho school,” wrote Miss Allan, “ will not cease when I sever my connection with it, and I shall at any time be ready to render it whatever assistance lies in my power,"

In reply to the Otago Harbor Board’s letter urging that Dunedin bo included in tho itinerary of tho British Industrial Exhibition, the Hon. E. P. Lee (Minister of Industries and Commerce) writes; —“Tho matter lias been under tho consideration of the Department of Industries and Commerce from time to time, and the wishes of the Dunedin local authorities and citizens have been fully represented to the Imperial Government. I shall bo glnd to make further inquiries to see whether anything has yet been definitely decided, and will communicate with you again.”

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