LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2136, 30 April 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

die mails wluela left Auckland on April 11, per 11.M.5. Niagara, arrived in Vancouver, en route to Loiidon, eu April 23. '■ The Public- Service Board of Appeal --Messrs. Burr, Mouat, Marryatt, and Eieliarateon— arrived in Wellington yos-i-M-diiy raoraingj having completed "the Smith l&hM tour. It is iM-idersteod that tho Appeal Board vfll take further cvidciicd in Wellington in respect- to soj«o of the- Soaith Isbiisl appoals against the provisional classification prior to arriving at its decisions;, ami will then sot out on tii-e North Island tour.

Tho politic-ait campaigning whicli is at present hciug carried on industriously in many electorates hy.ronlv Oikl fib members of the Opjuositiou is not taken very -seriously "by tho veterans of th& Reform party. An example of the fact was supplied the other (Jay, \dn*n tlio Oroi.m electorate "vas invailed. ffliijo utr. Isitti, at Feildiiig, IV-as thundering denunciations of tfco Hrforns Governtnoiit, Mr, I). H. Guthric, tho member for the district, was serenely transact' in;; biismess, in the iiitcrcst of his constituency, nt_Wollingt«ai. Mr. Guthrie' had bc-e-a advised that his electorate was to be invaded hy Mes~rs. Isitt, Forbes, and othefs, but cvidofttly tho invasion did not impress him ,as being important enough to waitaut any departure from the ex-eiri tenof of his way.

Brigadier Itaare, of the Sa-iv.ition Army, jn. tlt« eoursc of a statement in OoiuiGotioii With n young people's campaign which is to bo coii-dtwted thfougliont the Dommiott from May 16 to May 25, points out that last yaar, during; a simitar effort «o fewer tlra-u Ssi young people were Mastered: at tlio i.nerey seat, and 1-56 children added to the clsss registers. The enmpaipii will bo under the control of the chief secretary, who is in charge of. tho Army's operations in Ken- Zealand, during tlio absence of Commissioner R-icliarde ia Lftwiofi. The result of the ballot for the secretaryship of the "Wellington Building tl-ndos' Labourers' Union was declared last- night, Tho retiring secretary CSI',-. E. Kennedy) was re-elected by A inajofity of six to ono. Tho defeated candidate is Mr. A. Agnew, who was chairman of tho Slain Strike Commit' tes duriiiK the ccccnt industrial upheaval.

What will bo one of the fiaest build-' ings of its class in Australasia is. the now struotuto which lias, been planned ' by Messrs. Haggard, Pr<mso, and Cummer, architect's, of Wellington ami Auckland, for tho New Zealand Insnraaeo Company,' to be erected en ilio site of the company's old office, hotter known, perhaps, as tlio Stock Bxomuifro building in Queen Street, Auckland. This building "will have a frontage to Queen Street of 66ft. "by a depth, of 134 ft. The rear of tho buildina; will have a frontage to Mill Lsino'of 127 ft., and one of 38ft, to Exchange Lane, reached by means of a hrsfi wing, estonding •eastward. The biiikling, whioii is to bo eight stories in height, will bo a complete sieel-iVaffio structure with walls of reinforced concrete to be hilly faced on tim Qa-fOTS Street frontago" with Ssntfy Bay (Kelson) marble. It is estimated that tlio niarblo alone i<l lie used will cost ill the vicinity <sf £7000, All tlio partitions arc to bo of pumice blocks Isold logptber laterally and vertically hy ceineutcd-in stool reds. Theso with rainforepcl concrete floor* throughout ato calculated to make tho Imikfinp as nearlr fireproof as is possible. Tho steel to fro used will cost, about £12,000, and it is nyiticipalwl that tho total cost of the building will lie between £00,(100. end £70,00(1. The local brunch of ike company will have splendid quarters at the end of a snscious central ecrrkkr. riVid the iwWic office will l>6 given additional hoiirht by an ovnl-shaped balustraded npoiiina in the nwmiiirie floor a'wvw. The head nffioo of tho company is B'ven Insurious ttiartmeuts oh the seo.oiH 1 . door, immediately over the branch offiw, There will lies in all uair>» ICft -officc-s in the itiiiMiiiß, wliirfi will tnke cmiskler-ibly over two years to erect, Tim work is lieii)" done by scrtwriftl cmitrnct, tinder Uif.eye of'a bnildinc! suwrintendent spon'klly'imported from JWbounifi. Tho following tenders wero wwivpil by Bopgar-'.l, ?rouso, and Gnninier. architects, for fclw oiwtion of tho new Work of huiWiijas on T/nnibton Qnav, next it) the Vwblie Trust Offices, for ' Mr. Jolin Kirkftaldin:—Messrs. OsinmHeTl and Bwlw. £10,217 (accept. : rd) ;'R. Baniidcrs £10.2*0; M'T-jntt and Ony £11,10(1: SlurtWli and \\allaeo, : £.ll'ii(/i; Howie and Mattliws, i ■Cn'iW7; W. H. Benncft, £13,0-11; San- ] (Wt Hroß fl't.'lOO; Hnrtfc and Af'Douaid' £\&?M: Vfatt Bros.. .C13,<3;"5H; H. i Tliim-11.' .C13,8(59. The samp firm of | aicnitcets have rrcenllv. W. sevwnl eon- j tracts in. ronncciiovi willi tho Xow stciiand Tn sura me Coiiipnn.v's larcje hlort: of bu»ldiii"R in Quopn Street, Aiiddamf. which 'in post between £(10,000 ami j £70,000. j