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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19531, 14 July 1925, Page 6

Hie Mayor (Mr H. L. Tapley) will bring' forward the question at the meeting o! the City Council to-morrow night of making some formal recognition of the Diamond Jubilee of the City Council. The municipality of Dunedin came into existence on August 1, 1865, and on December 31, 1877, it was constituted a city. By working continuously the men engaged in repairing the broken cable of the Rattray street tram line were able to complete their task on Saturday night. The service waa resumed as usual at 12.30 p.m. on Sunday. The City Corporation’s motor buses carried on the service during the period the cable cars were out of commission. It is probable that a start will be made within the next two weeks with the erection of the lower part of the obelisk of the Dunedin War Memorial. The rough marble has now arrived from Italy, and is in the hands of the contractors (Messrs H. S. Bingham and Co.), who are dressing the blocks. In April the Government and the Lower ' Hutt Borough Council recently invited competitive designs for laying out the ©astern portion of the Lower Hutt Borough. The Prime Minister announced yesterday (says a Wellington Press Association telegram) that the sealed packets were opened on Saturday. The winner of the first prize, £3OO, was Reginald Hammond, architect, Auckland, and the winner of the second prize, £SO, was Frederick R. K. Kitto, city engineer’s department, Wellington. The next in order of merit were Messrs P. H. Graham, architect, Wellington, and G. E. Downer and A. B. Miller, architects. Takapuna. The competition provided for two prizes only. The board recommended that Nos. 3 and 4 be specially commended. On Saturday, after the last advertised race train had left Wellington for Trentham, a considerable number of people arrived at Lambton station with the intention of going fo Trentham. ' To meet the convenience, of the late-comers and save them a long wait (reports our Wellington correspondent), the railway authorities put on an additional train at 10.36 a.m., which took away nearly 1000 passengers. Although such a course cannot b© confidently expected by late-comers on other occasions, it shows the desire of the department to cater for the needs of the public. The adjourned charges against William Martin Heckler and Edward Carnegie (both of Table Hill), of negligently driving a motor car at Balclutha, and- thereby causing the death of a boy named Cochrane, were brought up at a formal brief sitting of the Police Court at Milton yesteday morning. A remand was again granted to Friday next when the hearing will bo proceeded with at Balclutha. The electric lighting of Milton railway station is likely to eventuate at an early date. The department’s electrician visited Milton last week to take measurements, and the plans, which have been prepared, provide for effective lighting of the platform, offices, and shunting yards. It is anticipated that the work will be commenced at *jd airly dote. ’

The Milton Borough Council at a special meeting decided to accept the proposal of the Mayor of Dunedin for sailors and officers from the American fleet to visit Milton on or about Friday, August 14. The council is willing to arrange for entertaining 100 sailors with their usual complement of officers at a luncheon and afternoon tea in the Coronation Hall. The ooet of the entertaining will bo borne by the Borough Council’s General Fund, the Government having intimated ita willingness to validate expenditure on welcoming our visitors. A tentative programme of outdoor pastimes for the afternoon was discussed, and it was proposed that the visitors be shown over the Bruce Woollen Mills.

The following is the return of infectious diseases in the Dunedin and Fever Hospitals for the week ended at noon yesterday: Scarlet fever —discharged one, remaining two; diphtheria)—discharged one, remaining seven; acute anterior poliomyelitis—discharged six, remaining 11; pneumonia—remaining one. Totals: Discharged eight, remaining 21.

As a result of the visit of Mr J. Loudon, chairman of the Otago Harbour Board, to Wellington last week, it has been arranged that the 1926 conference of the New Zealand Harbours Association is to be held in Dunedin during Exhibition time, about the end of February or the beginning of March,

Unpleasant weather conditions prevailed yesterday, when there was a strong and boisterous north-east wind. The morning was dull and overcast, and overcoats ana scarves were barely sufficient protection against the bitterly cold wind. These conditions continued throughout the day, and in the late afternoon a light, but driving, rain commenced. The wind dropped in the evening, but showers continued during the night.

Large numbers of Italians have been arriving in Greymouth during the past, few months, and it seems that none had any difficulty in securing work, although many of them are unskilled labourers. A number has been placed at the State mine. During the last four weeks 37 Italians have arrived there.

The Postmaster-General, Sir James Parr, announced last week that the cable rate on press traffic between Great Britain and New Zealand has been reduced from 7jd to fid per word as from July 7. “This reduction,” the Minister said, “represents a saving of approximately £3OOO per annum to newspapers. Since 1893 the rate has been reduced from 2s fid to fid. In 1902 a reduction of Is was and in 1909 a further reduction took place. In 1912 the rate was 7jd, at which it tms remained for the past 13 years. The reduction will, without doubt,” concluded the Minister, “be much appreciated by the press of Mew Zealand.”

Talk of irregularities in the recent borough council elections, Ku Klux Klan tactics, allegations of disloyalty and Bolshevism were intermingled in the explanations made at the Eltham Magistrate’s Court the other day, reports the Argus, when the Mayor, Ira James Bxidger, and another local body aspirant, Gerald' Henry Patterson FitzGerald, were' separately charged with assaulting each other. The blow which was struck was the result of words and allegations made. Mr Mowlem, S.M., said that the encounter had been the .culmination of something which was below the surface of the case. The police charged Fitz Gerald and the latter proceeded against the Mayor. The evidence went to show that the Mayor and Mr J. W. Stubbs were conversing on the Poet Office steps about letters the former had sent out and other matters connected with the Mayoral campaign. FitzGerald was standing close at hand, and in consequence of something that was said the parties became heated, a scuffle occurred 1 , and the Mayor was struck on the face. The magistrate held that Fitz Gerald was the aggressor and fined him £1 and costa (7s). The charge against the Mayor was dismissed.

A number of Gisborne importers met recently to discuss the question of direct shipments from Britain to Gisborne, thereby eliminating the* cost of transhipment from central ports. From statistics gathered by the .committee appointed by the Chamber of Commerce, who mooted the idea, it was seen that importers were perpared to co-operate to such an enctent in placing their orders at Home as to ensure at least one shipment direct to Gisborne It is understood that, after the result of these inquiries have been referred to the Chamber of Commerce, that application will be made to the Shipping Committee at Wellington to permit one direct shipmenv to Gisborne annually.

To have sat in the judge’s box and watched a race in which his father’s horse was participating was the unique experience of Sir George Clifford during his early acquaintance with the turf in New Zealand. In speaking of this incident at Trentham last week. Sir George said it occurred on the racecourse at Burnham Water in 1857. “I did not actually judge the race,” laughingly said Sir George, “but I recall the whistling jackets of the riders as they flow past, and the remark of the judge that ‘Clifford's mare is going well.’ But it had not gone well when the numbers went up.”— (Laughter.) A few months ago Messrs T. F others, John Castle, and W. A. Worth, three justices of the peace, conveyed to Sir Robert -Stout congratulations of the Wellington Zoological Society on ita patron’s attainment oi the silver jubilee of his appointment to the position of Chief Justice of New Zealand (Says a Wellington paper). The deputation resolved that in commemoration ol the event they would plant in the Zoological Gardena three roses of the Sir Robert Stout species. On Sunday morning, in brilliant sunshine, the three members of the deputation met the City Council’s gardener, and under happy auspices duly planted the roses.

It is not often that an application for an increase in salary meets with not only the approval of the body approached, but that the latter decides to further increase the amount asked for. Such an incident was forthcoming at a meeting of a school committee in the Maaawatu district recently, the servees of the applicant as caretaker of the school building being considered well worthy of the action taken, . A suggestion that the principal tracks on Mount Egmont, such as that connecting the Dawson Falls and North Egmont houses, should be made fit for motor traffic was made at a meeting of the Stratford Com mittee of the South Taranaki .Automobile Association by the Rev. J. L. A. Kayll. He suggested that the Government should be asked to have the work undertaken by prison labour. He pointed out that there was a precedent for this, as prison labour had been used in the construction of the

Waimarino-Tokaanu Road and also for certain reclamation work on the estuary at Invercargill. The Hamilton correspondent of the Auckland Star writes that there has been a cided move in the farm property market south of Auckland during the pact six or

seven weeks, quite a number of forme having changed hands on substantia! deposits, and agents declare that a healthier tone is now evident than for the past three years.

The biggest demand appears to be for partially improved dairy land and property. Selling firms regard the present movement as an augury of increased activity during

the coming spring and summer. House property in Hamilton is not so easy to dispose of owing, chief!?, to the phenomenal * amocmt of building by the State that has gone on during the past two or three years, while there are a good number of empty houses in the suburbs. Agents declare tfiat good dwellings at reasonable rents, within easy distance of the centre of the town, are exceedingly diffiult to get.

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