LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1838, 26 August 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hatpins Tver© the subject of a resolution passed-by tlio City Council some months ago, wtoon the city solicit.™* was directed to frame a by-law, making it compulsory that ladies should wear protectors oil the pin points. So fax 110 by-law has been confirmed, but the matter has not been lost sight cf. The hatpin by-law and several other new regulations which have beeai passed by tho council are to bo amalgamated and will in duo course, perhaps a matter of a few weeks only, bo confirmed at a special meeting of tho Otiy Council.

A chcquo for £10 was received yesterday by the sooretary of tiho Hospital Board (Mr. J. Ooylo), the money to bo applied to a fund to supply films for the Patlio homo kinematograph recently presented to the.Children's Hospital by Mrs. W. A. Caminer. During the last coupld of days paragraphs have appeared m tlho local papers referring to tlio first display with lihe oiew uiaohmo, and t'ho opinion was expressed that goodhoarted people / would see to it that a supply or suitable films is maintained. As one result of tlieso paragraphs, Mr. A. E. Mabin, of Karaka Bay, yesterday sent along the dheque above-mentioned.

The thief who relieved Mr. P. Westbury, of Taita, of cheques, eto., valued at £30, at a recent auction sale, had not up to last night been "interviewed" by tho local police, ■ but, as tho numbers of the cheques wero known, payment was' at once stopped, and tlio haul may not bo so satisfactory as the thief at first supposed. At last night's annual meeting of tho Now Zealand Academy of Fino Arts, the President (Mr. H. M. Gore) said that tho Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon. H. D. Bell) had decided that the now National Gallery should bo established on the sito now occupied by tho General Assembly Library. Tho gallery would be combined with tho National Museum. Mr. Gore expressed the thanks of ,tho Academy to tho Government for much assistance and sympathy in its work. The annual report also expressed thanks to tho Government for a grant of £S0 a year towards tho salary of a custodian of the Public Art Gallery, and for tho services of a nightwatcliman to ensure the safety of tho collcctiou. ' . Inclement woather was responsible last night for tJlio postponement of tho looturo 011 "Westland," wliioh was to have been giivoui by Mr. Gtrimmond in Spillor's Hall, Boulcott Street. At tho hour fixed only about a dozen interested persons had put in an appearanco, and it was felt that the merits of the lcotmro and tho excellence'of the slides justified a much larger audience, so it was decided to postpone proceedings until next weok. ) A special meeting of the council of the. Wellington Chamber of Commerco was hold yesterday morning to consider tho resignation of tho president (Mr. A. E. Mabin), on account of ill-health. Mr. Mabin's resignation was accepted, and Mr. C. W. Jones (vice-president) was elected to fill tho vacancy. A big schemo of improvement is (says our Auckland correspondent) to bo carried out on tho Auckland Bowling Club gre<m,_ and the club will then bo provided with more commodious and handsome buildings than probably thoso of any similar club in the Dominion. Tho plans for tho work have boon prepaired by Mr.'G. W. Allsop, and contracts for tlio work have just been let. Tlio total cost of the sciicmo will bo £2025. The improvements will consist

of removing tlio present pavilion to a now site 0111 tlio grounds. It will bo widened, and a now story will 'bo added to it. On tlio upper story there will bo a social room, 30ft. by 24ft. Adjoining tin's mil l)o a committee room, 12ft. by 24ft. Tho plans provide for a commodious balcony, 70ft. long by 12ft. wife. Owing to tlio abswico of tlio Mayor (Mr. AV. J. Organ), t'he spccial meeting of tho Eastbourno Borough Council, which was to havo been hold last night to consider tlio application? for tlio position of manager of tlio now municipal ferry service, has been postponed until to-morrow ovening. Altogether 52 applications for tho position have been receivod. Tlio monthly social gathering of tho AVellington Scottish Society was held last night in St. Peter's Schoolroom. There wm a cood attendance, The ovonms who epout in damans,

Tho last meeting of tho Wellington branch of tho Engine Drivers', Firemen's and Gleaners' Association passed tho following resolution: "That this branch of the E.F.C.A. placcs oil record its apSreciation of the action of tho Tlioni--011 branch of tho A.S.R.S. in protesting against the action of their Executive Council for presonting ,i countor-peti-tion to Parliament to our association's petition for recognition. Wo belicyo that tlio resolution passed by their branch at its last meeting voices tho sentiments of tho majority of tho members of both and wo aro of tho opinion that it will bo in tho interests of all for Parliament to grant to tlio, Eugino Drivers', Firemen's, and Cleaners' Association tlio 6010 right to represent matters affecting tho requirements and welfare of tlio locomotive staff."

According to advioo recoivod from Athens by cablegram by Mr. Frank Dyer, vice-consul for Grccco at Wellington, cable messages aro now permitted to pass between Grccco and New Zealand. At its meeting last month, Convocation oonsitforcd. tliree sdhemcß for tlio rooonstitution of tlio New Zealand University. These wore drawn up by a committee of the and submitted 1 to eaoli graduate for his opinion. After laying down certain principles to form tlio basis of a scheme, tho mooting appointed a committee to draft a report, ami submit it to Convocation as a wliolo. The committee has met and drafted a sohemo tvllncli wall be submitted to a full meeting of graduates, to be hold at Victoria College on Thursday next at 8 p.m.