NEWS AND NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 924, 17 September 1910, Page 7

NEWS AND NOTES.

ANOTHER AUCKLAND GRIEVANCE. A complaint regarding t-ho shortage of railway trucks at Auckland and the, consequent delay to 'shipping was made in" the House yesterday.. Mr.., Glover and .Mr. M'Laren-read telegrams they had received from the Waterside Work T ere',..'Union -in which it was stated that the; steamer Wakefield, had : been lying at the'railway wharf since Wednesday, and labourers had been thrown out; of employment V-owing; to. -the lack- -of trucks. In this connection it . was pointed . out. that - trucks ' were - being used to carry passengers to 1 the Avondale races, and a protest : was entered .against this being done when the with-drawal-'of .the trucks meant throwing men out of work. ....

The Minister'for. Railways (Hon. j. A.' Millar); said he did „not, know . the facts of the case,, but there always was a difficulty, and always would bo, when i.three-br four-;coal boats came in at the samo time. / v

: Mr.: Stallworthy: Can't you shift a few-trucks from,-Wellington?-' ; ;' Mr; Millar' said the same : difficulty existed ,in Wellington; He would have inquiries made. and'^endeavour. to. have trucks sent north'.at olice./ It. was always necessary at. race .times 1 to utilise trucks for the carriage "of passengers owing to the abnormal taxi on the rollingstock. . All classes of traffic had be; catered for, and the race , traffic must receive some .consideration., .

- AN INTERVAL. The Legislative. Council on rising yesterday afternoon adjourned until 8 o'clock' next ■'■Thursday evening. VTho Council would have adjourned for the full week, as it is up to date with all. its work, but for tlie fact that it. will have to meet next week to pass an Imprest Supply 'Bill. . , \ ; UREWERA LANDS. 1 The Hon. A. T. Ngata returned yesterday from" a visit to the Urewera Country. He- states that negotiations with the Native, owners i of the . lands which have been offered to the Government aro progressing satisfactorily. . CONVENTIONS OF POLITICS. "I am alarmed at'the conventions of politics," • declared Mr. T. E. Taylor last night., . "They are even , greater than in connection with religion."... Tho particular, convention Mr. Taylor deprecated, was discussing the Estimates in September, when the; financial year began in April. Mr. Taylor argued that if Parliament could not meet earlier, at lea-st the Estimates should be considered during the weeks uselessly squandered in the Address-in-ltoply, debate. Mr.-' A. W. Hogg :said consideration of the Estimates was a solemn-farce. There was a'lot of talk, but the items were seldom altered. ■ , Reporting-on the petitions of Arthur Drake, of Manakau, and Thos. BeVan, senr., of llanakau, for Land Transfer title to the Manawatu-Kukutauahi 4b, No. 2 Block, the Affairs Committee states that it considers tho petitions should be referred to the Government for favourable consideration, with a view to the introduction''of legislation [ to meet tlie case.