LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 954, 22 October 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■. The Court of Appeal will resume on Monday /morning at. 10.30, when: judgments given on ;Some,_of tie cases' recently vheard.'.A.: to strike: 'the' ■ name'•; of \J. F. Pullenj'. of Auckland,-off the roll of barristers 'and solicitors will also' be x taken if counselarel ready. ; ; : f ';- .'/'//: /'"^/ : ,>-7 :

Tlie dispute in tie 6addlory trade ir, to be discussed by a Court-of Conciliation next Tuesday at 10 a.m. The chief points at issue are the rate of wages and the piece log. The men desire that the wages should be increased from Is. per hour to Is. 3d., and that the piecework log should be abolished. A preliminary meeting of the council was held yesterday morning, Mr. P, Hally (Conciliation Commissioner) presiding. The assessors were Messrs. W. Wiggins, C. H. Wycherley (employers), D. ,W. Murray, W. Fin'dlay, and T. A. Rabe (employees). ' The Hon. J. N Barr also appeared on behalf of the employees. The employers' assessors desired that Mr. W. A. Grenfell should represent their side, and the representatives of the men stated that they had not received any official notice of the sitting of the council. It was decided to adjourn untjl Tuesday to allow the union time to state ths ,casQ,, and.LMr-u.Orronfelk to appear fo* the employers, i•■

, 'TheWellington,'branch of 'the NavyLeague has/ : /written : to/'the-Mayor'' of Auckland -tendering: "the warmest 'con-, gratulations on the: v decision . to -make. Aucklandfthe headquarters.:of-the Bri-:' tish 'Navy ■ in .the South Pacific". , : The letter ■ (which is- signed ■by the president,' Mr. Wilford, and the secretory, Mr.. 0. W. • Palmer) proceeds transfer of the naval::base to; New Zealand waters ■ is'..indeed a' matter ';of -congratulation for .the/whole.ef the.-Donunipn;',;:'arid-Auckland especially is:to ;be; felicitated, upon,the-event.: i.Jhe-fact thatjthe'Dq:minion - has wisely;- thrqwii iin '/her; lot with:the:Mother.Country in:the naval defence of the;llrjipire.as a ; whole, in? jtead.of, attempting to provide or contribute (to .'a~separate- navy/for;, merely, local defence,.tends to afford immeasurably greater protection: to our.commerce throughout ;the seas" of ijhe world. than could possibly have been 'attained )by any. other- means."/.; ':/. :'.:^;'::-:/>;'.:/|U

"Say Au Kevoir, but not Good-bye!" In the House 'of Representatives last evening, during the discussion on the Defence Estimates, Mr. R. H, Rhodes (Ellesniere) referred to the fact that Lieutenant-Colonel Bauchpp, Commanding the Wellington District, had been selected for a course of training at Camberly Staff College, in England, and thqugh he (the speaker) had on several occasions bade that officer farewell, he was still in New Zealand. What was the reason ? ' The Prime Minister replied that a difficulty had arisen in connection with Lieut.-Colonel Bauchop's admission to the college. There was no room just now, and hundreds .of officers who had qualified for a course had been unable, for the same reason, to gain admission.

The Terrace School Committee has decided that the annual school picnic shall be held this year at' Day's Bay, piobably at some time during next month,

..."'Congratulation's '.tt- Auckland' as. the. future naval base for ijhe/ Pacific were sent. yesterday by the president .of the Wellington Navy. League (Mr, T. ■ M, ■Wilf'ord,,,M.P,V."•., vV ; V.a.,.':': '

Next Wednesday's meeting of the Haibour Board will be held at 2.15 p.m., instead of in the evening as is now the oustom.

'-. Messrs.. A. and: G,.Price.,;, of "_' the Thames, - have turned: out - t&eir'thirty, third locomotive for the % Railways' De-.' partment, r.Th'e latest engine; 'is : of the. four-cylinder balanoed compound type and with its tender weighs 78J-tons.; : •''

Tho resolution of the City Council, passed at its meeting on October 6, and making compukory the use of the Canadian swimming costfunie/. by all bathers at bathing resorts under the control of tho council, has teen challenged by Councillor Fitzgerald. JEe has given notice of his intention to move, at the next meeting of the ooun : oil, that the motion be rescinded.

Mr. Luke is asking the Minister for Marine whether he ..will put himself iii' communioatioii . with' the several; harbour boards of tlio Dominion that have Government , representation, : -'.urging them to have regard.'to the desirability of encouraging local industries in eon-; liection ..with the. requirements of their boards,,' '\;''.;. ;::.;: •; ;".,., .-. A return giving the following information in. respect of the four, university colleges of the Dominion is/ being asked for by Mr. Herdman, M.P: :-(l) The unimproved value of the land ocoupied by each university college; '(2) the value of the improvements placed upon, the land occupied by eaoh college; aiid (3) the approximate value of the library of eaoh college." . ';' ■•■'. . .. ■'•'[''^r'

In his address at ,tho Unitarian social gathering on Wednesday evening, the Rev. W. Jellie did not say that to bo a Unitarian in 1830 was > pr,iotically equivalent to being socially ostracised. The year which he named was 1813.