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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17730, 15 September 1919, Page 4

Tho date• of the presentation of the U i> S s uncertain. Tho document ia practically ready, but it is unlikely to ba released before Friday at the earliest. A number of tramway matters will ba dtscusaedat the meeting of the City Council on Wednesday night, the first of these Uemg a recommendation by the committee , -"-further allowance of time and a-half be pajd to all employees who worked on iueoday and AVednesday of peace celebrates week Ihe extra cost involved will ?? P :o committee's report goes on to state that arrangements havo been made to run a 10-mmute service on the Anderson s Bay route from noon till 3 pm curing the summer months. Tho present service is a 20-minute one, with a 10-minute sen; ice on Sunday afternoons and at certain times during the week. The cost of tta proposal is estimated at £900 per annum. The report also states that in futurt- a workers' car .will be run from Howe street to the Monument at 7.30 a.m end from the Monument to Howo street r- , R3Spoctill S tramway matters, Cr A. Donald has given notice to move the fo.lov.mg resolutions:—"That the Tramways Committee be instructed to report to the council at aji early date the advisabiliy cf:—(l) Enlarging tho present workshops at tlie car sheds, or purchasing a new site .in order that room may be provided for the building and equipment of our own cars; (i) that orders be placed for the supply c f tha necessary machinery and tho steel frames for building cars, in order that an up-to-dato and adequate policy for the construction of cars may bo proceeded with at the earliest possible moment; (3) the enlarging of the present tramway' eheds in order that there may bo room to house at least 20 new cars." The ri3w regulations governing tho hours of duty for the Police Force 'will come into operation at the Central Station to-day. The suburban police are already working under the eight-hour schema. ° • A small Australian mail, ex tho Manufei, consisting of live bags from Sydney, Tour from Melbourne, two from Adelaide, and; | two from Brisbane reached Dunedin on .Saturday night, and will be followed tonight- by the pared portion of the mail, which is also small in quantity. No definite advice has yet been received as to tbs arrival of the next English mail, but dcubt-lc-s there v- ill bo gome on beard the Ayrshire, which is due at Lyttelton on September 19, and the Moana, due at Wellington about September 29. Tho well-known daffodil grower, Mr E. A. Hamel, referring to. a paragraph which appearcd in Saturday's issuo of the Otago Daily Times, informed a Times reporter that there was apparently a considerable demand for narcissi bulbs. He had recently h?en asked to give a quotation for named varieties, to be supplied in hundredweight lots. He presumed that they were vrar.ted for tho South African market Mr Ilamel was of opinion that quite a large trad<» would eventually be developed in narcissi bulbs, as far as Otago was concerned. Ho knew of no piaoi where "tha flowers that bloom in the spring" grew to better advantage than they do in Otago. Climatic conditions are doubtless the principal contributing factor. At a meeting of tho Management Committed of the Dunedin Performing Musicians' Union, held yesterday, the secretary was instructed to convey tho best thank* of the union to tho of tho Kr.ikorai Band for their valuable services in connection with the benefit concert given by tho band in aid of the widowed mother of the late Mr C. J. Stewart. A new rank for 14 taxi-cars is to be provided on the southern side of Moray place west The first of a series of rededication. services was held in Knox Church yesterday. Tho Rev. G. H. Jupp officiated at the morning service, and in tho evening tho devotional part of tho service was' taken by tho Rev. W. R. Hutchison, ministerelect of Kaikorai. Tho Rev. R, E. Davies delivered a thoughtful address on "Tho L ulr.css of the Time," speaking from the Epistle to the Galatians, iv, 4. Th© service was very well attended. The meetings will bo continued' this week for four nights, frcm Tuesday till Friday. Tlie City Fire Brigade was called out at 1.15 a.m. on Sunday to a fire in a fiveroomed house in Reid road. South Dunedin. The dwelling is owned by Mr C. G. Smith, and occupied by Mr J. Bourko. Threo rooms in tho back portion, with their contents, wero badly damaged, and tho rest of the hcuso was scorched. Particulars of the insuranco on tho houso wero not available last evening, but tho furniture vu insured in tho Stmt<} office for £125.

The traffic returns from tho city tramways for tho fortnight ended August 50, as compared with those for tho corresponding period of last yi3ar, wero as follows:—1919, £3795 Is 7d for a distance of 50,058 iwles; 1918, £3073 5a lid for a distance of 49,720. "Tho total area now set asido' under tho Scenery Preservation Act," states tho annual report of the Department- of Lands and Survey, "is 306,888 acres, including over 600 different reservations, whilst reserves previously set asido under the Land Act and not yet brought under tho Scenery Preservation Act amount to a largo area, and these two classcs of reserves contain a largo portion of tho beautiful scenery of tha dominion. Every caro will be taken to preserve theso lands in thoir pristine beauty. It may also be mentioned that the national parks of New Z«iland, which are practically scenic reserves, cover an area of 2,771,202 acre-s." The exploitation of householders in the matter of rent occupied the attention of the Nelson City Council at its meeting last Friday. The city valuer forwarded a letter, which had been handed to him, as a specimen of statements that are sometimes mad© by landlords fo obtain increased rent. Ihe letter, which was addressed by a landlord to his tenant, stated that owing to increases of rates, etc., he was reluctantly compelled to increase his rent from 12s 6d to 20s per week. The valuer stated that the valuation of this property had been increased onco in recent years by £25, making tlie rates 3s 3d per annum more than previously. Strong indignation at tho landlord s action was expressed by several councillors, and it was decided to refer the correspondence to tho city solicitors. Ono of th 0 most prominent questions affecting railway officers, according to Mr J. Young, president of the Railway Officers' Institute, is that of compulsory retirement after 40 years' service! Ho stated in Auckland recently that this matter was now the subject of a petition to Parliament by tho Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. A largo proportion of the discontent was due to the congestion causc<i by war legislation preventing retirement of thoso who wished to retire, also to the failure of the department to fill vacancies as they arose. He had always been opposed to compulsory retirement after ■40 years' service, because he was absolutely opposed to any restrictions being placed on members of tho railway service that did not apply to other branches of tho civil service and to the rest of the" community. Tho Officers' Institute had always endeavoured to provid© channels of promotion by improvements in the Classification Act, and not leave promotions to the openings created by retirements. One; of the worst features of prison life m this country is its deadly monotony," Ba*d the Rev. E. C. Budd, in tho course of an interview upon the prison system y. pf, 1 a ew Zealand Herald representative. "The men have hours of idleness upon their hands, and if they do not caro for reading there is nothing for them to do save, to brood and think their own hard thoughts. In England they make mail bags for the ' al , I ? ! : partrncrlt ' coal sacks for the navy, do bookbinding, mat-making, and a host of other useful jobs for tho public services. . An ettort has been made in the direction of introducing the system at th e Auckland gaol, and,- although ■ there are more difficulties than in England, it could be greatly developed. A new boot-room has lately been set up afc tho local gaol, and th Q men make boots for the staff of the gaol, and mental hospital, also for all the prisoners. This is a good start, and I consider an extension of the system would have very .valuable results."

The member for Wallace (Mr J. C. Thomson) has asked tho Prim© Minister it the Government will, now that the war is over, w:th a view to stimulating ressaroh work and invention, consider the advisableness of granting licenses to those who wish to study radio-telegraphy and telephony, Now Zealand and tho Falkland Islands being the only countries in the world whero such licenses are not granted An experimental radio-station, says Mr Thomson, means a station used for private practicra or research r. ork in the art of radio communication, and not operated for. profit in either sending or receiving; licenses to be of two classes, one for receiving only, and tho second for both receiving and sending; applicants for licenses to sign a statutory declaration of secrecy and not to be under 16 years of age. A circular has bsen issued to disabled men by_ the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association outlining four proposals by which it is hoped to assist disabled soldiers. Ihe men to whom the circulars hav© been sent were asked to indicate their views on the four alternative schemes. The first proposal is for the isstablishment of a communal settlement of men desirous of securing small farms, with tho right of transfer after 10 years, and the ultimate right to the freehold. The sscond provides for individual settlement apart from the communal scheme; the third proposes the setting up of a communal settlement for purposes other than small farming, and the fourth provides for men wishing to obtain residential properties apart from a community scheme. A meeting of the newly-elected council of the Otago Art Society was held at the Art Gallery on Friday afternoon, when it v/as ,agreed to open the annual exhibition of pictures and art crafts work on November 12. Sub-committees were appointed to select work for tho exhibition and arrange the exhibits. _ The council is offering a number of pria?s for competition among art students throughout the dominion, and hopes to receive entries from tho various art schools in New Zealand. A representative meeting of taxi-owners was held on Saturday mbrning, when the Provisional Committee a?t up at the previous meeting submitted a report on the formation of tho association. It was atrrecd to register under "The Industrial and"Provident Society's Act, 1908," the name of the association t+v be the Otago Taxi Owners • and Drivers' Association (Ltd.) The rules i T -d regulations as submitted were agreed tj. Upon proof of registration it was decided to ask tile City Council to receive a deputation to discuss running charges, the 'control of telephones on ta::i ranks, and also to ask that all applications in future for taxi licenses be submitted to the association for endorsement

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