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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2222, 7 August 1914, Page 4

The Hon. Jj Allen mentioned in the . Financial Statement last evening that the latest report of tliePuWio Service Comnus, sibner, already. laid before Parliament, recorded inaDj- improvements and ported not only that the efficiency of the Service .had greatly improved, but that , economies had been effected or were in process of being introduced whnoh would result in an. estimated saving of.£fo,ooo per.annum. At the samo time salaries of officers, partioularly in the lower grade, had been. considerably improved. A mini- . mum wago for married men in the Service had been established. Cabinet had decided to permit officers of the Public Ser- • vice and Railway Service to occupy positions on local bodies, and this provision had already in some instances been token advantage of. , Councillor J. Godber stated at last night's meeting of the City Council that a surprise visit had-been paid to all the dairies in the City, and that tho result of the investigation, was in every way satisfactory. All the occupiers were .complying with the by-laws, and .the premises were in » very clean and sanitary condition. The residents of ThomdpVi Quay.who petiti6ned the City ConnciPfor the prevention of the dust nuisance in that looalitv are to be informed that when the street' is wcbd-blocked the wi I be minimised- and that watering the TOadday is probably the most ineffective way to keep down the dust. .... Tho City Council recentlv cl*ci^>d. imn •an arrangement under which the, .Weilin»ton Cricket Association would have ■control'of the Basin T?e»w for three wars. A firm of solicitors te since ii"ti,'fied the council that Mr, ;William has instructed them to ar.nly to the Supreme Court to nreventthi=. being done, on tlio ground that it would be beyed the power of the counci. The council \m\ the letter.before it lost niT.lnv and 'decided to refer the communication to the CUv'Solicitor. '~'■'* , , The Wellington Education Board lias accepted the tender, of Messrs. Sanders Bros., of< Wellington,■ for. the tho complete building, in bnok, of tna Brittomart Street School. ,lho school \vheii completed will occoiuniodato over. m children. , ~. , ' , \. It is proposed to establish three schools on the.lsland of Ratotonga, one of which, will bo a training school to Prepare tcach~ ers for the outlying islands. _ The lnws of tho Islands are under revision by-, the Solicitor-General and will be the subject/of a Bill to be introduced later in the session, '•■-■-,' ••