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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1496, 19 July 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. — -9 Seventy passengers, mostly holidavmakers, were earned from San Francisco to Papeete on the present trip of the TJnion Company's liner Tahiti, the attraction being the celebration at the French colony of the taking of the Ba.stille. The ve.ssel alrivcd at Papeeto a weak before the date of the anniversary, but festivities had already begun, and a big dance on board a training ship then in port was attended by most of the Tahiti's officers. Tho natives look forward to the celebj'a-tio-ns with great glee, ami take an active part in commemorating the event. For the greater part of yesterday's sitting of the Education Commis-sion, the proceedings were in camera. At lioon a deputation from the New Zealand Dental Conference attended, and gave interesting ©vidnnce, and in the afternoon Captain A. C. C. Stevens, nf the Junior Cadet Department, attended, nnd submitted a statement in reply to Geuor.il Godley's criticism of tho. junior cadet organisation, given in evidence before the commission on Tuesday last. This morning the evidence of Mr. fl. llogben (InspectorGeneral of Schools) will Ixs continued. The special rating area in the Makara County, on which a rate of Jd. Ip to bo strncW as security for a loan of «£:>3oo for tlis construction of a road from Ngnhanranga to Newlands, is set out in tho Gazette of this week. A notice in this week's cancels the registration of tho Wellington Gas Stokers' and Cnkers' Industrial Union lintlM , the Indutlviol Conciliation, and Arbitration 4ct»