LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2366, 23 January 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Hon. Jas. Allen informed a Dun. edin Press representative yesterday that in regard to Samoa, immediately after the occupation a number of civil offices were filled by soldiers, but the time has now come for tho holders of those positions to decide whether they will continue in office or not. The Government proposes to give them the opportunity of poing to the front, but if they to remain in the Civil Service they will ho rolioved from army duty, become Civil Servants, and receive tho pay of Civil Servants.—Press Association. '■LA few days ago a complaint was mado of alleged petty thieving from the pookets of bathers' clothing at Lyall Bay. As far as tho police are concorned, they have received no complaints, and a report presented to the superintendent of police mentions that' not a siuglo oaso has been roported officially this season. The sum of £70 Is. Od. wa/ taken during tho first three woeks of tho present mouth ut the Zoo gate at Newtown Park. The whole of that amount was spent in food supplies for tho in-r mates, and in current exnonsos. , A tologrnm was received by tho local police from Napier yesterday advising that a man named Auliffo or M'Aulift'e had been accidentally killed at Norscwood (near Dn'nnevirko). V. 0, Hyde, the railway fireman who was injured in a railway accident at Plimmorton on . Monday, was roportod from tho Hospital last night to be. ii UiU* battax, i

'Do not ]et the workers suppose," Baid Sir -Robert Stout, speaking at Christchuroh on Wednesday evening, "that they are in a class . by themselves. We who oamo here in the early days were all workers, and those who think wo did not have to do manual work are mistaken. When I came to the colony I got 265. a week, and I wag able to live on it and also spend time in study. All the young Englishmen had to do the same thing. I remember meeting a young man a day after we had landed and asking him_ u he had gdt anything to do. fie said, 'Yes, I have got a contraot for fencing 15 miles up country.' I said. 'Do you know anything about fenoing?' He said. 'No, but I will learn.' That man died not Jong ago a wealthy man, and he won his position by hard work."

The Advances Department has, says a Press Association telegram from Dunedin, lately. increased the amount that may be borrowed from it by local authorities, settlers, and workers. Looal authorities may now borrow up to £2000, settlers up to £1000, and workers up to £400.

In the past, Australia, has purchased yearly from Germany 6ome 17,000 pianos, and from Great Britain about 3000. New Zealand purchases from Germany totalled £57,063 in 1918, and £79,926 from Great Britain, How the balance of the Australasian trade may be secured wholly to Great Britain is the problem whioh is now being, faced' by the Home manufacturers and trade. "Now's the day. and now's the hour," deolares "The JPianomaker," the trade journal of the industry in London, for seouring Germany's trade in pianos in. the crisis that has arisen.