CABINET MEETING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15557, 6 March 1911, Page 7

CABINET MEETING.

IMPORTANT DECISIONS. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, March 4

A long sitting of the Cabinet was held last night, at which the following decisions were arrived at:—-To subsidise local authorities £1 for £1 up to £26') upon amounts expended for the Coronation celebrations; to- offer a bonus of £12,000 for an . improved method of treating New Zealand hemp; to eend a New Zealand rifle team to Bisley next year; to remove the headquarters of the Wellington military district to Palmerston North; to appoint Messrs V. H. Reed, M.P.. T. Ronayne, W. Evans, J. Coombe and J. Stallworthy, M.P., a Royal Commission to decide the future route of the North Auckland railway; to appoint Messrs Reed (Inspector of Mines), Cochrane, Grace, Dixon, Fulton and Betts a. Royal Commission to inquire into and report upon the sanitation and ventilation of coal mines; that electoral rolls shall be printed bv local printers instead of by the Government Printing Office, on a scale of prices approved by the Master Printers’ Association; to appoint Captain Renaut, of the Union Steam Ship Company’s vessel Kaiapoi, assistant-superinten-dent of marine at Auckland.