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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 45, 4 February 1911, Page 11

The harbor works in progress at Wanganui continue to show good results! the latest soundings giving 15 uet 6 inches on the bar. It is hoped to get 20 feet with an extension of die breakwaters for another 500 feet.

Air Cathcart Wilson, erstwhile of Aew Zeeland.' who is a giant Radical, end finds consolation in knitting has teen returned unopposed for the most .solated' constituency in the United Kingdom—Orkney and Shetland writes a London correspondent). ..lies.? islands are sometimes incccesibk- for. weeks together owing to itormy weather. They always poll .ast, if there is a contest, the clecjion lasting two days, and on at least me occasion Parliament has assembl'd without- waiting for the result from shis outpo&t.

Says the Carterton paper:— The xoi’s and ordinary pass-fngt-r traffic n- the AVairara-pa line have been dasjig?.nsed each day cf Trentham races, .he early mail train being delayed in hour, apparently to ensure tliat .•id-tors shall not be incoi/renienced by striving too early on the course! . hi-?, consideration shown for tbo racing cow.muuiity is truly touching. Attempts to fly will be made by two Aucklanders in the course of the next few days. One enthusiast has just completed a machine on the lines of that of Al. Bleriot, the French airman, wliile the otlicy man lias only a little work to do to finish his machine, which is a biplane. Two other aeroplanes are in course of constriictiou in the. city, and good progress is reported in each ease. ■ Ro-id co-ii’tru chi on in New Zealand is being pushed on thi-. strnmer at a rate never before equalled. ■ 1 ateney U avrruble, roads are wanted ■ rgccM'y In rapidly developing proGuees; the only difficulty is to gp<t .-uffiekut labor. As road works condtiPe the standby on - the Last re>crt of the unskilled, the fact that the Public Works Department can e-.mp) y mere men than it can get is /estimouiy to the buoyancy of th 6 la■or market. A new system of spending the grants has been inaugurated .-Ims year, local authorities beeng a-Ufca in every case to get the votes if they submit specifications and plans of the .oc.d work propoe-d. Though there has been an agitation to get an allowance for cost of super vision, the great majority of local authorities, gktd to get the money to expend, iiave fal'en in with tho equitable arrangement, and simplified procedure has enabled the authorisations of voles to be known much earlier than was formerly the case. A large number of men are employed on railway works, and, ini accordance with the Government’s policy of equalising the demand for labor all the year round, more railway workers w 11 bo required in the winter. •.