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Otago Witness, Volume 02, Issue 2420, 2 August 1900, Page 38

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The Defence Office has authorised the

raising of a second Naval Artillery Company, so as to completely man the forts. An additional 60 men are required. The present Naval Artillery Company will be into two companies, both of which will then recruit up to the new strength. Lieutenant-commanding Bell will take charge of the two .companies.

The arrivals in the colony during June

•were 784, and the departures 1062. - The Government have declined to give the Education Board the amount necessary, some £6000, to rebuild the Thorndon School, recently burned down, in brick, but ■have allowed £4826 to replace it in wood. In the Arbitration Court Mr J. L. Kimbell, charged by the Furniture Trade Union with two breaches of an award — viz., (1) paying less than the stipulated wage, and (2) keeping over the proportion

of apprentices — the Court found that there

lhad been a breach of the award, and fined Kimbell £2 and costs (£8 8s 6d). Kimbell said that he had not read the award, and the Court commented on his laxity.

• in consequence of the deterioration of the - sanatorium at 'Eotorua through the action ; of the sulphur, the Government intend to . jput a vote on the ' Estimates for some

".£SOOO. to replace the g buildings in brick. ' 'A good deal of work has been done in the

•way of improvements to the grounds, and . also at Whakarewarewa, where the colony recently acquired springs. At Hanmer Plains the natural gas is now being extensively used for cooking, lighting, and heating."