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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The pesto] authorities ndviss that the s.s. Zeahuidia, which sailed from Sydney on Xovcmbor '2o for Auckland, has on board .Australian mails; also 'Knglisli inaik via Suez. The Wellington portion is due per .Main Trunk express on Monday i:o.\t. The High Commissioner for ,Xow Zealand in London has advised tho Department of immigration in Wellington that the hist party of selected farm bovs, under tin. charge of Scrgcant-Major Cooper, lias embarked from Liverpool in the s.s. Ayrshire. The hoys are due to arrive, at Auckland about January 19, IUI4. . Applications for the services of these boys and for those in> future contingents are now being received by tho Immigration Department. Mr. W. A. Vciteli gave notice in tho House of Keprescntatives yesterday to ask the Government whether they will during the recess consider, means of giving relief to contributors to tho i£itional Provident Fund who become memhers or the Public Service', and thereby become, contributors to the- Superannuation Fund as a condition, of service. The now Britannia Theatre in Manners Street, which is to ho devoted to moving pictures, is expected to be ready for opening in about three weeks' time. Much care and taste, are being displayed on the finishing of the interior, in which a good deal of tho Carrara Company's plaster mouldings are being used to tiistmet advantage, A lease of the new theatre lias been secured by Mr. Alfred Linley, who has taken Mr. Coleman into partnership. Tho now addition to the Duko of Edinburgh Hotel (which is part of tho samo contract),has been completetl, and is now in occupation. llona Bay Wharf has bceii the subject of some correspondence between tho Eastbourne Borough Council and the Wellington Harbour Hoard, Tlw omuicil offered' to contribute tlw sum of £-50 per annum to the wages of the caretaker, provided that applications v.'cro called for tho position, tho schedule of duties to ho agreed upon between tho Mayor of the borough and tho chairman of tho board. The Borough Council further suggested tho erection of a goods shed. This offer vm considered by the board last night, and it was tlocklod to accept the otter regarding the caretaker's wages, tho matter to be left in tho hands of tho. chairman of the board. As regards the goodsshed, tho question will be further considered before the council's suggestion is agreed to. The Hawko's Bay-Manawntu | Methodist annual -Synod pass- ; jod tho following resolution in reference to Bible in schools: —"That we recommend all our preachers, who can conscientiously do so, to comply with ths president's request and to observe Sunday, December 1-1, as a. day: when special reference shall be made from the pulpit to the. Bible-in-Statc-sc'hools question.'' A start will shortly be made with the continuation of t'ho widening of the' Oriental Bay lload, and the erection of, the concrete sea wall, only a. section of which lias been erected (at Fitzgerald Point) up to the present. There is already a toe-wall extending east to about tho centre of the Bay, all but covered in places with sand anil rubble, but which will form the base of tho now wall. Once -started, the work will bo accelerated by the use of a new rotary concrete mixer which has only recently been delivered to the city engineer's department. In connection with this work, it is suggested that tho wall could bo buttressed by aggregation of boulders which disfigure tho beach hi certain parts of tho Bay. If, these wore "cleaned tip" thoro would bo a reasonable chance of a iiicis stretch of sandy.. beach forming from Fitzgerald's to Thomas's Point.

A Dunedin lady has sent the "Otago Daily Times" the following extract from a letter she lias received from a friend :at present visiting America, in which a process of road-making in use there is described': —"Wo have been much interested in watching large gangs of men at work on this avenue, repairing tlio street. A steam plough went along lipping ifp the pavement as if it ivero cardboard. Thwi it was immediately carted away. Then another gang camo with brooms, swept it clean, and after that Warren's bituminous paving was brought along, hot, in silt carts, spread with hot shovels and rakes, also hot dumpers—all heated in a portable furnace. Next camo an immense, roller worked diagonally across the new pavement ; _ then gangs with bags of sand ; mow following up and sweeping—and in 11 few minutes tho thing was com-, plotod—awl the traffic wont on just tho same, right over the new road almost before it was cold. No barricading or stoppage of traffic, such splendid road* making machines are used' here, and everything is done so quickly—no "timo is lost or wasted. There is no halfhour every now and then lor 'Saiokcoli I' Tho mem had l their pipes in their mouths most of the time."

Tho fact tltat people of pood position had been, owing fees to tho Auckland' Hospital for somo iDonnidorablo time was "commented on at the meeting of the Hospital Committee this week. The secretary reported that some of the arrears dated hack from 1909, and the debtors, although quite- able to pay, had always ignored tho request for a settlement. It was decided, the "Herald" reports, to give, thrso people an opportunity of explaining by asking them to appear personally before the committee.

The Mayor of /Lyi'tolton stated at Monday night's meeting of the Borough Council that the community was very, distressed that the industrial trouble was stil! unsettled. Tlioy felt that things had not improved as they might have done. He was very sorry that -soma of (ho waterside workers' had broken their word given to him as Mayor of tlio town. Their action hurt lowered' the dignity of Lyttclloii and affected its reputation detrimentally. Outsiders thought that the council was not doing . its duty in tlio matter, but lie could assure them that the local body was doing its utmost to pacify th* workers. Ho hoped, however, that out of tho present evil would come good, and that tlio workers would recognise that (hero were'better moans than tho strike for sett-ling labour troubles.

"I don't mind making a snereh," said a man in the body of tire Magistrate's Court at Auddand on Monday when Mr. C. C. Kettle, S.M., had invited anyone present- 'to express his views on the question of wh-ethor the hotels should be reopened. "Arc you out on strike!'" asked Mr. Kettle. "No, I am <>n a holiday," replied the man, amidst laughter. Ho said that he was a carpenter, and had come in from the country, but the fact that be could not wt a glass of l>t»r had spoiled bis 'holiday. Ho oxnressed the opinion that even if tlm hotels were closed for the next .three months, there would certainly be a conflict on the first dav ihev were opened.

"Aro the few men on strike to dominate the universe?" 'he concluded, "Take- no notion of tho man who doesn't use [liquor. His opinion isn't worth lieari ie,!:." The offer-Is of tho recent heavy northeast weather aro now apparent on the. sframlcd steamer Tyrone." Her fm-o. ond has settled down, several feet into tho Kami, (lie store half having apparently found a rock bottom wliicli prevents further s«t.tliiig. Salvage work, the "Oteo.o Daily Times" slates, is still bein<; carried una* eiremiislanccs permit. On' Monday tlu> vessel's dvilaino and ]\\s}< speed engine, wciv safely landed «(,' Port Chalmers, and oilier goods are coming ashore in fairly largo onanlities. The salvage work is risky at times, and on Thursday a boat eame to jiriof after being laden with the shin's navigating romnassos and other valuable sear. " Tito boat was smashed against- the rucks after leaving: the vessel's side, but tho two oooimanis .scrambled ashore- as their boat sunk in docu water.

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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1917, 27 November 1913, Page 6

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1917, 27 November 1913, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1917, 27 November 1913, Page 6

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