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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1680, 21 February 1913, Page 6

■Wednesdays and Saturdays are thodavj recommended by the custodian •of tho Thorndon baths as tho days for ij mixed bathing at such baths. i At a meeting of tho Wellington District Labour Council last evening it wa6 reported that 2500 signatures Bad bocn obtained to tho petition asking that j a poll. bo taken on tho half-holiday question. Further volunteers cam® forward to assist in tho work of street canvassing,, in connection with tho petition, which Is to start to-morrow. It is intended to adopt the samo methods as were l'ollowbd last year. Tables will bo set up at convenient places in tho streets, and passers-by will be invited 'to sign tho petition, and to fill in electoral enrolment' forms if tlioy ATO not already on tho roll. Tho selection ballot in connection with tho' pending municipal elections closcs next week. The City Reserves Committee. of the City Council has considered reports from tho City Engineer and Superintendent of lieserves in connection with tho proposed improvements at Island Bay, as!c«l for by tho Island Buy Electors' Associatioh. Tho City Engineer ectimntes the cost'of construction of air* esplanade with concrete sea wall and necessary filling required to l>e about .£2300. Tin) cost of planting Roof Street'with suitable',shrubs is estimated at .1115. Tho committeo recommends that 'this matter bo allowed to stand over until the completion' of tho Oriental Bay Esplanade, when tho matter will bo then considered. As regards tho planting of tho zig-zag, at Clyde btrcel, risked for by tho association, the committee recommend that tho request bo occcdcd' to,. Tho estimated cost of the work is . The Wellington District Labour Council was asked last evening to extend,its support to the Amalgamated bocicty of hnI'lnecrs, which proposes to interview tho Minister for Labour in regard ticeships and other matters of iti wrest, to tho trades. Tho District Council, decided to send representatives with, tho j deputation, provided its objects wcro consistent with the platform of the Labour party., A paragraph which npportrod m ■Tim Dominion yederday T stated that tho I approaches to tho new Ilutt Bridgo had been completed, but. that tho connecting ! road with Lawry Bay Road hod not bton touchcd, Our renders will bo interested to learn that tho .Now GracefiOUl Comjiauy, through whoso property the road has to pass, liavo instructed Mr. Uhomaß Ward, civil engineer, to prepare plane of tho protioied road. Tho formation will bo gono* on with immediately tho' plans are to hand. !. .