WELLINGTON ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 June 1922, Page 6

WELLINGTON ITEMS

MAIN ROADS BILL. (Special to the Star.) LOIN, J une 16. At laSb WUcxk a Cvixlel’iliCU I'cgdl'lLoig maw roa-as, tne minister oi imbue h viks ummicOim io pi..do Lkiuio me boaies repreaemea, a memorandum i.muoiiyiiig uiu pmpOoals that ne inUaiuvll io p-ideu ill legisia.lve 101'111. i'or consiuvicUun vi mu Lamneb this mvrnoiaimum xS no»» Dvmg prepared, ami it wm go io tne npreSviiiativcs uf tile counties, muii.cipaiit.ea, automouiio un.ons and good roads associations. it piomolj Will reacii tnem Ue.oie iiiucn time i.as Ihe Minister nas indicated that he will invite suggestions irom various interests alier tiivy na\e se_n tne proposals. The computed bin is ixpeCvCu to ivach I'aiiiamcnt during the coming session. LOAN SUBSCRIPTIONS. In addition to having fully subscribed. £1.25,000 required by the City Council for si.eec works, general improvements and baths, the public had up till 2 p.m. yeMeruay subscribed £20,000 out of the extra £58,000 wanted by the Comic.l to liquidate a loan by the banks. Thero seems to be no doubt at all that the full amount will be subscribed within a day or two. Questioned as to where all the money was coming from, the Mayor .stated that of the £125,000 loan £lOO,OOO was subscribed by Wellington people, mostly in small amounts. The largest individual amount subscribed was £BOOO, but there were quite a number who put in £5OO. ARMS EOR SAMOA. In Feb., 1895 an Order-in-Councii was published m tne New Zealand “Gazette’ prohibiting the export of fiic-arms, gunpo»der, munitions of war and warlike stores trom New Zealand to Samoa. The Samoan rebellion had taken place in eno preceding year and the natives were still in a disturbed state and it was considered desirable that opportunities of Samoans for making further trouule should be restricted as far as possible. Nearly twenty years later the great war began and r\ew Zealand found occasion to send firearms and ■ munitions of war to Samoa in quite considerable quantities with the tioops that took the territory from the Germans. The old reguiat.on appears to have been overlooked at the time; now, it has been revoked by Order-in-Council dated June 8, 1922, and published in this week’s “Gazette.” WEATHER REPORTS. The fact that the centre of weather disturbance to the north of New Zealand was in the vicinity of the Kermadeo Islands prompted Rev. D. C. Bates, Dominion Meteorologist, to mention, when speaking to a “Post/’ reporter today, the value of reports from the outlying islands. . “If the day comes,” he said “when wo are able to have wireless reports from Kermadec Islands, it will be of infinite value to this country.” At the present, time there were no people living on the islands but when Mr. Bates was in London three years ago, he had inquiries through the High Commissioner’s office from people who wanted to settle on the islands. A meteorological observatory was more desirable there, he said, that at Macquarie Islands, although for international purposes the Macquaries were of great scientific interest. There was a meteorological obser afory and radio station down there prior to the war, and it had been of much assistance as far as southerly winds were concerned.