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Otago Witness, Issue 3100, 13 August 1913, Page 48

It is understood (says Saturday’s Wellington Post) that when the resolutions passed at a meeting of shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand came before the Board of Directors, all hut two decided to recommend that the Governor-in-Council exercise the veto. This L'SSs been done. The two dissenting directors wore Messrs Martin Kennedy and Win. Watson, shareholders’ directors. The next stop to be taken is the application for a declaratory judgment, to which reference has already been made. This will be heard by four judges. The number of patients remaining in the Hospital at the beginning of last week was 153. Thirty-four were admitted during the week and 40 discharged, while two deaths occurred—those of Kathleen Hill and Andrew Wilson. This loaves tine present number in the institution at 145.

Quite a legion of unemployed have within the last few days passed over the door mat of the Labour Department (says our Wellington correspondent). Fifty men are being sent by the department to the railway works at Huntly and Awaroa. Twenty-five have already gone. Preference of employment is being' given to local married men who are used to pick and shovel work. A number of men have been placed by the Labour Department with the farmers, especially in the Taranaki district. A difficulty in dealing with the present situation arises from the fact that many of the men applying tor work are young men who have no settled trade and tire quite unsuited for the heavier class of unskilled labour. Some are stewards, rousoabouts, etc. —the class that may bo employed when rush rime comes in the country in the summer, but who are not fitted for work where the stipulation is made that a man must at least be able to milk.

Mr James Fraser, town clerk of Port Chalmers, acknowledges receipt of the following additional subscriptions towards the cost of the proposed Scott memorial U.S.S. Co., £lO 10s; proceeds football match with H.M. cruiser New Zealand’s crew (per Mayor of £6 6s; also anonymous donations amounting to £5 16s 6d, contributed for the Dunedin memorial; West Harbour Borough Council, £2 2s; Mr John Wilson. £1 Is; Mr H. W. Sprott, £1 ; Miss Z. Ross, £1; Mr (}. H. Balfour, IQs; collection at Port Chalmers District High School (per Mr G. Booth), £1 13s 9d. The Scott Memorial Committee has now sufficient funds in hand, and promised to go on with the construction of the proposed memorial cairn, and it is expected that the work will be put in hand at an early date.

A Frees Association telegram from Wellington states that Mr Malcolm, Chairman of Committees, has received a cablegram from the High Commissioner stating that a party representing the Empire Parliamentary Association, consisting of Lord Emmott, with 14 delegates and eight ladies, and Mr Degville (secretary), expect to arrive at Auckland on August 26. They will visit Rotorua and then go on to Wellington. They will be obliged to leave on the 29th, and have made a request to have the boat delayed till late in the evening. The Australian Government has sent a representative to Honolulu to meet and escort the party.

The CTutha Presbytery, at its meeting last week, agreed to ask the Assembly to make a substantial addition to the very small retiring allowance at present granted to aged and infirm ministers, requiring at the same time such an increase in the yearly premiums of ministers and congregational assessments as would make the scheme financially sound. It was also agreed to recommend tiiat ministers be allowed to retire from the active duties of the ministry on attaining the age of 65.