Interprovincial

New Zealand Tablet, 3 December 1914, Page 35

Interprovincial

A suggestion has been placed before the. Auckland City Council (says the Star) that- its workmen should be placed on three-quarter time, thus giving employment to .all, rather than that fewer men should be employed the whole time.

A heavy rain set in at Ashburton at daylight on Sunday 'morning, and continued without the slightest intermission throughout the, day. It was the heaviest and most continuous rain experienced for the past six months (says the Christchurch Press), and will have found its way deeper down into the subsoil than any of the previous rains since May. A post-card vending machine has (says the Otayo Daily Times) been installed in the posting lobby of the Chief Post Office, Dunedin. By the insertion of a penny in the slot and the pulling of a ring bolt two halfpenny post-cards are delivered. A similar machine has been in use for some months at Wellington, and has proved a public convenience. ’ ■ The Public Health authorities have not yet arrived at a conclusion in regard to the true nature of the complaint which has caused a great deal of suffering to many residents of Onehunga. It cannot, therefore, be said that the complaint has been definitely diagnosed as English cholera. The department has heard of. between 200 and 300 cases .of the trouble, mostly from Onehunga. It is thought that the warm weather, and possibly the eating of semi-decomposed fruit, may have been responsible. . '