SPECIAL TO COUNTRY COACH PROPRIETORS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1846, 4 September 1913, Page 6

SPECIAL TO COUNTRY COACH PROPRIETORS.

Tho economy in running cost and groat reliability of tlio best' types of motor vehicle render them particularly suitablo for coach service work, particularly on !orig-distanco routes. Tho Queenstown-I'airlio mail and passenger motor service is a leading caso in point, wiliile there is 110 doubt that motors could be used more profitably than horseflesh 011 many of the shorter coach routes in this district where tho conches act as feeders to a railway terminus. We have at present in stock at Christchurch a 12-25 h>.p. Talbot motor brake, a vdhiclo capable of accommodating up to twenty passengers, and powerful enough to tacklo any road Grade. Tho chassis is a second-hand one, but tho durability of Talbot construction is so well known that it is hardly necessary to say that tho vehicle has many years of wear in it yet. In the matter of reliability the Talbot l ! havn adhieved competitive successes l'ighit liere in New Zealand unequalled by any other make of car, British or foreign. The veliiclc is offered at tho roek-bottom pricc of ,£250, complete with, lamps, screen, electric horn, nnd spa.ro wheel. It can be finished in any colour to order. This offers an exceptional opportunity to the country coach proprietor desiring to effect economies in running expenses. TKo brake is admirably suited, too, to the conveyance of cricket, football, or hockey teams, or picnic parties. l.et us give you luiilner information regarding the utility and economy of Talbot motor-; for commercial .purposes. Se.iul for photographs and details. Adams, Ltd., Motor and .Cyclo Importers, Oliristcliftrch,—Advt, ,

A joint sorvico of intercession is to ' be held at Brooklyn Church on Tuesday, September' 23, at which Baptists, Presbyterians, and Wesleyans will join with the Church of England congregation. Sir Frederick Young, the "father" of tho Royal Colonial Institute, and an associate of Edward Gibbon Wakefield in the early colonisation of New Zealand, has written to tho "Morning Post" this week (July 23) strongly advocating tho inclusion of Maoris in tho Navy (writes a London correspondent to an exchango). In tho courso of bis letter Sir Frederick makes an earnest appoal for support for tho proposal, adding: "In tho days of my youth I was taught to believe that the Maoris were tho finest race of savages in tho world, and . . . they have completely fulfilled that description. . . . My especial interest in them arises from the fact that in early lifo I was personally associated with tho illustrious founder of New Zealand, Edward. Gibbon Wakefield, from the year 1839 to 1852. Seventy years later, under tho l'ulo of tho British Crown, civilisation has advanced them in a most astonishing degree. . It is wonderful to reflect that not only liavo a largo number of Maoris become landholders and accumulated considerable wealth, but that several of their chiefs liavo seats in tlio Now Zealand Parliament, and consequently arc taking an active part in tho laws which govern tho Dominion. . . . In no part of it arc there to ho found better or moro promising material for fulfilling tho requirements of tho National Navy than among tho Maoris of New Zealand,, if the Homo and Dominion Governments will inaugurate a plan for their being • properly trained and educated for tlio purpose." Twelve months ago tho Stadium at Rushcutters' Bay, Sydney, was roofed, and during that period something like 700,000 spectators liavo locked on at boxing bouts. The figures, at a near approximation, aro mado up ao follow: —Saturday night contents, 468,000; Wednesday' night contests, 90,000; matinees, 75,000; total, 633,000. In addition thoro liavo been thousands who attended charity fetes in which boxing played a big part. It is estimated by the Sydney "Telegraph" that when all those who .have been admitted to the Stadium in tlio year are accounted for the aggregate nttendanco is not very far short of 700,000, or somewhere about as many people as thoro are in Sydney. Tho decision to excludo girls fronr tho next Public Servico entrance examination was the subject of question aud answer in tho House of Representatives yesterday. Tho Hon. W. F. Masse; stated that in recent years very fe« vacancies in tho Clerical Division of tho Public Servico have occurred to which girls could bo appointed as cadets, though very largo numbers of gij-ls aroavailable who liavo qualified in tlio Civil Sorvico Examination. "At last November examination," ho adds, "thore were no fewer than 710 girls competing, whoreas only two vacancies have occurred for them up to date. The expenditure of an extra £500 was scarcely warranted for tho'purpose of determining some two or three appointments; hence tho decision to exclude girls from tho next examination. Any girls that are specially anxious to attempt to securo one of the few vacancies in the Public Servico open to them may sit for tho Public Servico Senior Examination of January next, the passing of • which gives them priority of claim for appointment in tho event of thoro being a vacancy." In connection with tho criticism of tho Miramar Borough Council's action in reducing tho minimum frontage of dwellings from 40ft. to 33ft., Councillor Bell states that it has beon incorrectly stated that by its action the council had decreased tlio area of ground for a dwelling. Mr. Bell explained that prior to tho council's action the minimum frontage and depth of ground for a dwelling was 40ft. aud 165 ft. respectively, this working out to an area of a little over an eighth of an acre. Tho present by-law provides that no dwellihg shall be erected on an area of less than an eighth, of an acre, and by reducing the frontage to 33ft., the council has not reduced the minimum area. It appeared from a series of questions asked in the Houso, of Representatives last week by the member for Hutt that tho Junior Cadet equipment on issue to corps at various schools was being sadly neglected or thrown away. These questions woro answered by the Minister for Education yesterday. Tho effect of tho Minister's reply was that the head teacher/s had been instructed to roturn the equipment of disbanded corps, or to sell any part of it to tho boys if they cared to buy it, and to pay the proceeds into the Public Account. Ho stated, further, that no authority had been given to burn any model rifles on issue, aud that tho Education Department was in a position to account for all model rifles on issue to cadet corps. Advertising. rights on the trams have been governed by tho Tramway Board for some time past, but it is now; proposed to dispose of them. Tenders will bo considorod by tho City Council tomorrow nightj aud action will bo determined according as to whether those tenders aro favourable or otherwise.

Recent restoration of a one-story building on "Lambton Quay has raised the question as to whether the City Council has power to insist on buildings being erected to any particular height. Tho Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luko) stated yesterday that tho council has 110 such power, although, in the caso of city leases, a clauso in tho agreement compels the lessee to erect a building of a certain height—at least two stories.

Tho familiar impressed legend on cheques, "Stamp duty—one penny, would appear from tho (report of tlio Public Servico Commissioner to be very likely to disappear. Approximately .fourteen millions of cheque forms are '.impressed ©very year by the Government Printing Office on account of tho banks. The of sending the cheques to and from the Printing Office, and the counting of tho cheques, is 0110 that is cumbrous and expensive. The Commissioner suggests that tho Government could quite safely trust tlio banks to pay tho duty without this laborious process, particularly as tho duty on bank notes and on steamer tiolicts was collected without any such impressed stamp. "Generally,' say.s tho Commissioner, "I have arrived at the conclusion that the collection of duty by impressing dtocunwjrts is clumsy, and -unnecessary." >