LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1412, 12 April 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Complete returns of the votine at tho last general election were gazetted last night. ■ - - • ■ '■■-■■ '■ "■'" ; ~,

The Wcllfttsto'n Citizens' League favours the erection at ns enrlv a date as iwible nf the lone-deferred Centre! Railway Station in \Yollin?toii. At last evening's meeting of the league it was decided to urge the Minister for 'Railways to prqeeed at once with the work (plans for which were prepared years aw), and also to favourably consider the erection of a goods shed at the Tc Aro Station.

The New Zealand National Association of Spiritualists, which held its annual conference in Christchurch nt Ens'er, lias been invited to send a delegate, to the Spiritualist Congress to meet in Berlin ia March, 1913. It has not yet been derided whether the association can arrange to be represented.

Si-ill another building is to be added lo the group of hospital premises at Newtown. Included in tlio proposals for the coming year is the erection of a building in which out-patients may be treated without encroaching on the restricted space in the general hospital building. It is proposed that the new Out-Patients' Hospital shall be a one-story brick building, with structural provision for another story should the necessity arise for the same later on. It is proposed that the new building, which is to be built nut of loan moneys, shall be erected on the western side of the General Hospital, between the matron's quarters and the Carrara Company's factory.

The organ at St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Mulgravo Streel, which has been undergoing repairs, renovation, and partial reconstruction during the past three months, will ho l'Doponcrl this evening. Mr. Robert Porker will play a short programme of organ music at. 7.')0, and Bach's Passion music, in the abridged form prepared for use in the London Cathedral, will be sung at 8 o'clock. According to general usage, a pianoforte (Mr. Uric Waters) will be used for a portion of tlio accompaniments, and tho organ will bo supplemented by a small stringed orchestra, led by Miss Grace Kennedy. There will be a special offertory towards tho heavy expenses connected with the organ.

Makuri and Ngnturi settlers will be pleased to learn that no change will bo mado in the present mail contracts, though new contracts will bo called this vear. Mr. W. .T. Moore waited on the Postmaster-General (the Hon. 11. G. Ell), who personally knows tho district well, having a few years ago been all round tho back-blocks. He sniil he would go into tho whole matter with the secretary of the Post Office. His policy will he to send all mails forward ns quickly as possible, as mails aro his first consideration.

The branding registration districts of Taupo and Wanganui aro abolished, and new branding registration districts of Taupo, Wanganui. and Waimarino constituted, as detailed in last night's Gazette. Mr. R. Alexander, of Hamilton, is Registrar for the Taupo district, and Sir. .D. Munro, of Wanganui, for the Wanganui district.

"That the Minister for Labour be urged to carry out the law with regard to the active instigators, aiders, and abettors in connection with the recent tramway strike in Wellington," was the wording of a resolution passed by the Wellington Citizens' League last evening.

The Surveyors' Board of New Zealand announces in the Gazette ' that at the March examination twenty-six candidates sat. Of these, Mr. William David Armit, Lands and Survey Department, Nelson; Mr. Burnham Hirst Horner, New Plymouth; and Mir. Arthur Campbell Cooke, Nelson, passed tho examination; while Mr. Valentino Blake, Lands and Survev Department, Wellington;Mr.William Brian da Laval Willis. Lands and Survev Department, Auckland; Mr. John Kirwood Ledger, Lands ami Survey Department, Auckland; Mr. Francis Alfred Stevens. Hamilton; and Mr. Vrank Lewis Davie, Christchurch, completed the examination, having passed in some of the subjects ot a former examination.

A meeting of St. John Ambulance Centre was held last evening, Mr. C. I'. I'owlcs presiding. Leave of absence was granted to Mrs. Haltrop, who has gone lo I'.iiglauil. A sub-i'oininittpe was nppointed lo fix a date mid hall for Ihe mnual meet ill',' of the cenlre. It was intimated that there «•>.« a probability ot lb-' ambulance work being revised in the linilway Departmeul.

The plank "Elective Executive" lias been del tied from the revised draft of the platform of the iiewly-ori;it«;l I'nited Labour parly. This may be taken a- an indication that if a Labour parly gels into power it will elect Minister* at n caucus nicetiuK instead of asking the whole, House- to elect them-