WELLINGTON NEWS.
.FPbb Prkbs Association.! WELLINGTON, Dec. 16. At his installation as Mayor to-day Mr Bell said that from returns he had obtained he was convinced tliat.they. hadan-anxious and- difficult year before them. The overdraft would be .£15,000 next March against .£10,500 last March. Heiintended to lay proposals before the Council, which he hoped would place the finances on a more satisfactory basis. In response to a deputation that waited upon him yesterday the Minister of Marine decided to issue a regulation empowering the Department to grant a license to masters of foreign-going ships to adjust the compasses of their own vessels upon payment of. a fee of ten shillings. It will not be necessary for the licensee specially to adjust thp compasses before sailing if he is satisfied they ' are ''properly adjusted, and the certificate will be sufficient evidence that compasses are satisfactorily adjusted.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5748, 17 December 1896, Page 3
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