A LAUNDRY SCHEME.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 793, 16 April 1910, Page 13

A LAUNDRY SCHEME.

MOVEMENT BY-THE UNION -■ ■ company; The extensive scheme of improvements in connection with. ■ the Patent Slip ■ outlined in these columns yesterday is not the last word in the contemplated improvements at Evans Bay. The huge laundry bills piltd up by the Union Steam Ship Company for years past have prompted tho company to cast about for the most suitable means 'of .dealing with this important portion of its business, and a decision has now been come to that a laundry shall be erected by the company. 'It is satisfactory tc learn from Mr. W. A. Kennedy,- local manager of the company, ■that'_ the laundry is to be erected in Wellington, a site having been chosen at Evans Bay a little, to the'north of the Patent Slip. The detail arrangements as to the building have not yet been completed, but in view of the fact that , it has been decided that the laundry work for the whole of tho Union Company's fleet in New Zealand will bo done at Evans Bay, a considerable number of hands will be given employment as a result of the company's now venture. The scheme is to take definite shape at the earliest possible moment. The plant for the laundry was imported by the Unjon Company soveral months ago, and is ready to be fitted up as soon as the building is completed.

Tho Prince and Princess of Wales visited an exhibition of apprentices' work organised in Drapers' Hall, London by the Lord Mayor, with a view to encouraging the apprenticeship system. Both expressed admiration for the work done,' and the Princess; was presented with sprnys of flowers put together by florist apprentices. ' • -■ '_ A regular supply of Gi>rman rye bread in tno tea-room of the House of Commons has been asked for by Lord Claud Hamilton. Poultry-keepers disclaimed any hostility to fox-hunting as a national sport, at a meeting of representatives of tho Poultry Club, tho National Poultry Organisation Society and the Utility Poultry Club (England). A resolution, expressing the view that some steps should be taken to provont loss arising from the depredations through foxes and to secure fair compensation where such loss arises, was, however, adopted, and the Masters of Foxhounds' Association was invited to appoint representatives to confer with I reoresentatives of the Douitry societies,