LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1292, 22 November 1911, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The public health inspector of the AVellington Hospital Board is to inspect and report on the main portion of the Levin Borough at an early date. Levin Borough. Council has decided to avail itself of the services of tho board's inspectors, and wilt allow tho board JZ\2 10s. for tho financial year ending March 31 next.

"In the interests of public health," resolved the Wellington Hospital Board yesterday, the Government is to be asked to "make regulations providing for the compulsory application of tho tubercular test to the whole of tho cattle in tho Dominion."

The main and supplementary rolls of the Masterton electorate will contain, approximately, 7320 names.

The result of the open vote, taken by post, of members of the Merchant Service Guild on tho question of whether registration of the guild its a union under the Arbitration Court should bo cancelled, was declared at a meeting of the i guild ■ held -, on- Monday. Therferjvrsa majority in'favour of cancellation, but' no action was authorised regarding actual cancellation, the guild preferring to wait until the Minister for Labour submits his promised proposals for a chango in the personnel of tho Court.

Detective-Sergeant M'llvoney and Detective Bailey arrested a middle-aged man named James Connolly yesterday on a charge of conspiring with Robert Homo to defraud T. A. ji'Dowoll of a sum of money at Randwick, New South Wales, in October Inst. The samo detectives also arrested a man on a charge of breaking and entering a wharo at Karaka Bay and committing theft.

An officers' mess has been instituted at Alexandra Barracks on Mount Cook. Instead of those officers who are of the permanent force boarding in various parts of the town, they arc now catered for at the headquarters.

Tlio receipts for tho woek ended Sunday, November 10, on tho municipal tramways show a decrease of .£6l 4s. Id. on the corresponding fmuros for last year. The Sunday morning specials carried 575 passengers, and thoso in tho late evening 290. The total by the midnight car fta again 100.

Referring to a report on tho Wellington Hospital Board's now responsibility —tho caro nnd oversight of children in industrial schools—which was published in Tiik Dominion last week, several members of tho board at yesterday's meeting spoko in complimentary terms of tho capacity which had been displayed by tho superintendent of charitable aid (Sir. A. 11. Trucbridge) in grappling with this new problem in his department. Jlr. K. C. Kirk hoped that members of Iho board would give their attention to tho report." Money spent on behalf of such children as the board was now the guardian of for the time being was money well spent. (Hear, hear.) Jli. J. W. iilT.wen (chanman of tho Charitable Aid Committee of tho board) added that the committee did not intend to confine its interest to the mere question of tho expenditure of ,£9OO or .CIOOO a quarter upon these children, but intended to take a real and practical interest in their welfare by personal visits. (Hear, hear.)

A meeting of tho New Zealand Institute of Architects will be held in Iho Town Hall to-day. Delegates will bo present from all tho principal centres in New Zealajd. In the evening tho visitors will bo entertained at dinner by tho local branch of tho iustilute, and to-morrow at a conversazione in the Academy, Whitmoro Street'.

Dr. Valinlino, Tnspcetor-Gcncral of Hospitals, was present nt the monthly lr.octing of tho Wellington Hospital Hoard jesterdn.v. The now Act governing the f.dminiatmtion of Hospital Hoards in > : o\v Zealand gives tlio i lisped ir-Genoral tho privilege of attending the deliberations of these bodies. On these occasions, be may make statements or offer explanations, but is not at liberty to lake part in debates. At yesterday's meeting, a recommendation was tabled by the Hospital Committee that in i"i>ly to dm request, of Natives at Otaki thatn Maori nurse be employed on the staff of the Otaki Hospital, they bo informed that it is the intention of the Inspector-General to have a Maori woman work in conjunction with a European nurse in tho (listrict, and that such provision will, in the opinion of the board, meet all tho necessities, of the case. Referring to this matter, Jlr. Valinlino explained that these nurses were required to have very special qualifications for this class of work, liiero was a great dearth of snitablo nurses at present, but the Department was using every endeavour to secure tho services of capable nurses for those eppoinlinents in the several hospital districts iu Xew Zealand. Seventy-eight of the "cost of living" booklets issued twelve months ago by the Labour Department havo now been returned. Tw«nty-nino of the books contain a record of expenditure for tho full period of twelve months, eighteen have been filled in for periods ranging from six tu twelve months, eight for periods uf from three to six months, and !!S for periods of under three months. The idea of the Department in issuing the booklets was to obtain definite iuf'.irmation upon which to base statistic:; as k> the cost, of living in Now Zealand. 11 has not yet been dctermhed how the informal ion obtained will bo collated and arranged. The numbe; of books returned su fur is regarded as satisfactory. Hecontly the C'oirninnweallh Government distributed several thousand books with a. similar end in view, and iKJO were returned containing tlio desired particulars.

The I'nblic Works Department has accepted (he l/nder of Messrs. Griffiths anil f'-i., Jtni'hlielil (Nelson), for the eonsi met ion of a bridge on the Gisljornc.Mcilu railway, at a cost of Jiltßi. Un-acr-eptrd tenders were those of Messrs. Anderson and Cn. (Clirislcburch), J21097; Messrs, SaiindfT-i Bros. (Wellington), .fcll.Vl; Messrs. Nivon and Co. (Napier), and Mr. J. 11. Adams (Auckland), .tinvß.

Cnuiicillnr J. fuller lias given notice I hat he will move the fallowing motion at Urn next inn-ting of l.ho City Council: "That the tramways inninlain the Sunday timn-|.:ible service on Christmas Day u't oriiiiinry fares," The Wellington Telegraph Offico received word at L.'iO p.m. yesterday that all iness.'iftcs for Auckland would show a livo hours' delay an account of damage done In the lino by stormy weather. There was no break in communication, the injuries to be adjusted being purely w:ction:il.

A special meeting of the Kaslbourno Borough Council will be held on Friday to consider a. proposal by Councillor Button to acquire fixtcon acres of bush land at Muritai for a public park.

Tho Wellington Technical School will close for the Christmas vacation on Decomber G. It lifts been arranged that the annual show of work nnd entertainments will bo held in St. Peter's Schoolroom on December 7, 8, and 9.

Tho death by drowning of Mr. Horace Thurston, a. nephew of tho lato Sir John Thurston (High Commissioner for tho Western Pacific, and Governor of Fiji), is reported by the captain of the steamer Amra by wireless from Taviuni to Suva. It appears that near Loma Loma the Amra was (owing Mr. Thurston's whaleboat, when the rudder of the latter came adrift, and Mr Thurston, who was on board the Amra, attempted to reach the boat by means of the tow-line, tlis weight caused the lino to sag, and as the ship was steaming at eight knots, he was unable to keep his hold of the rope. A search occupying two hours was made, but no trace of tho missing man was found. He was a powerful swimmer, and it is thought that he was injured by striking- the boot being towed. Mr. Thurston, who was about 30 years of age, had filled several Government appointments, and only a fow months ago retired from tho Fiji Customs Department. As a mark of appreciation of the services rendered to the Wellington Hospital Board by Mr. George, Lanchlan (lighting superintendent of the City Corporation), in connection with the recently-completed electric installation at the hospital, tho board, at its meeting yesterday, decided to ask the permission of the City Council to vote him a bonus. .