LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2425, 1 April 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will be no issue of The Dominion on Good Friday, and advertisers are requested to make thoir arrangements accordingly. The business office will be open during the holidays as under:—Thursday, till 8 p.m.; Good Friday, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.; Easter Monday, 8 a.nii to 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. All copy for "display" advertisements for Saturday's and Monday's issues should be 'handed in by o p.m. Thursday, and for Tuesday by 1 p.m. Saturday.

Tho authorities advise the following holiday hours at telegraph offices:—On flood Friday, which is observed as a Sunday, offices usually opening on Sundays will open from f):30 a.m.- to 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. On Easter Sunday the local office and the offices ordiiiarily open on -Sundavs will observe the hours set for Sunday attendance 10 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. On Easter Mondnv all telegraph offices and telephone offices will onen between the hours of 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. Tile large centres. a> mentioned in the Postal Guide, will be in attendance from f) a.m. to 4 p.m. nnd 7 p.m. to midnight. Offices usually open on Sundays as per Postal Guide will reopen from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in addition to the 0 a.m. to 10 a.m. attendance. The Tolenhone Exchange will be open continuously throughout.

The out-patients' department of the Hospital wdl be closed frofri Friday to Monday next for the Easter holidays. Tlrgont eases arising on those days will b-3 treated at tho Main Hospital.

Mr. T. Young, tho Consular representative. for Japan in Wellington, has been advised that the Japanese Commercial Commission, who have been in .Australia for some weeks past, will arrive in Wellington from Sydney by tho Mokoia on Wednesday next, and will l'eiliain here until April 15. On that date the members of the Commission will leave for returning to AVellington on April 20 and leaving for Auckland two days later. They will leave that port for Sydney on April 27. Mr. Kitalmma, one of the members', will not come to Now Zealand.

The balance-sheet of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce shows assets to the value of £914 14s. 5d., including the sum of £800 on fixed deposit. During the year the excess of expenditure over reoeipts amounted to £14 lis. 10d., and the 'sum of £100 was donated to the Poor of Great Britain, Ireland, and Belgium Fund. The annual meeting of the Chamber is to be lifcld on April 20.

The tramp steamer Wyandotte is. according to advices received, to leave San Francisco to-dav for New Zealand. Her cargo will include a consignment of Canadian flour for local merchants. It is understood that the Wniruna (replacing the Waitemnta) will leave Vancouver for New Zealand Ports, abnut the middle nf the month. She is also likolv to bring a considerable quantity of Manitoban nnd Vancouver (lour.

Tenders are advertised to-da.v for the erection of the hutments to take the plaee of hell tents as shelter for the troops m the pormnueufc training cnnij) at Treiithnni. These lenders will lie returnable in n week, and the estimated time required fov the completion of the eoiitr.irl, to be let is six weeks. Tho now pi, -ins for llie military hospital at Trenlliam nre in n I'oru;inl sfnlc. and tenders will bo railed durinc next weak.

There were no bankruptcies in Wellington during the month of March. There' was only one during the same month'hist year.

Oil inquiry yesterday a reporter was U ..j' lc d that the case, Mercantile wiild v. the Small Shipowners, has been set down for hearing 011 April 26, when tile Question of overtime to officers and an eight-hour day will be discussed.

The forthcoming Easter .Conference oi the .Z. Poultry Association is to be held 111 the Masonic Hall. Boulcott ■Streot.

A venture new to the Dominion is about to bo introduced in Gisbonie. The proprietor of a billiards establishment is opening a billiard room for womon. I Ins will be situated on the top floor, entirely separated from the men's room, and will be reachcd by an electric lift. There will be two full-sized tables, whilst tho parlour is comfortably furnished and a. toilet room is provided. At present it is proposed to have the room open for two nights in the week, but if sufficient inducement offers the room will be open continuously. Several women have already expressed their desire to learn the pastime.

A rise of five inches in the levol, of Lake Takapuna, the' source of the water supply of Auckland's North Shore suburbs, is reported to havo taken place aa a result of tho heavy rain experienced recently.

A small fragment of a Gorman shell, which was found at Hartlepool after the bombardment, has been forwarded to the Canterbury Museum by Miss North.

A platoon of senior cadets, marching down a somewhat badly lighted street in Christchurch one evening, was overtaken by a motor-car. Five or sis youths were knocked down, one of them being apparently injured. He was pulled from under tho car and taken to tho Hospital, but it was found that his injuries consisted only of a cut knee and a slight shaking, and he was allowed to go to nis home after treatment. The driver's explanation was that only his oil lights were burning, and he did not see the cadets until he was right on them, and then he pulled up very promptly. On tho other hand, it is stated that there was a band with the cadets .

A Now Zealand trooper in Egypt writes: "It appears that General Godley know tliat we_were coming to Egypt before we left Now Zealand, as our syllabus of training until the end of April in Egypt was printed in New Zealand by the Government Printer." Who sayß printers cannot keep a secret? —Du'nedin exchange.

At the annual meeting of tie Otago Rugby Football Union, Sir. H. Harris, ivho presided, referred to the mattor of representative matches during the coming year. It was not Otago's year to tour, lie said, and, judging by the reports from the north, we were not likely to have many matches here. The Canterbury Union liad said that the only match it oxpeeted to play would be with Otago. His own opinion was that they ought to urge the unions not to tour at all and to cry off all their matches. This sentiment was cordial'y approved by the meeting, which evidently felt thai the abnormal conditions at present prevailing made it inadvisable to attempt the usual interprovinoial matches.

.The sole survivors of H.M.S. Good Hope, which with the Monmouth was sunk on November 1 off the coast of Chili, by the German-Pacific Squadron, were five men wlio had been landed for look-out and signalling duties on a small island some days before the aotion. One of these men, Mr. Arthur L. Forbes, is a New Zealander, and a grandson of Mr. William Forbes, of Henley Avehue, Christchurch. He served for some years in the Royal Navv, and was in H.M.S. Euryalus when she visited Lytteltoli in 1900, but subsequently bought himself out of the service. _ He then joined the London Metropolitan Police, and continued in the Royal Navy Reserve.

This year (says the annual report of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce), in spite of the somewhat dry season, in all probability over 100,000 cases of apples will be exported. South Americans are offering at from 6s. to 7s. per case f.o.b. Wellington. The present apple export trade from New Zealand is not large, but it is evident it will show enormous development within a few years. Growers of apples for export must realise that their product has to compete in the world's markets. It is essential, therefore, that every fcare be taken in growing fruit suitable for particular markets, that the quality and colour are 'riplit, that the apples are uniform in size, and adequately packed. There is no reason ivhv fruit co-operative packing companies 'should not do for the apple export.-industry what the co-operative dairy factories have done for the dairying industry. ■

An interesting return has been handed to members of the Hospital and Uiaritablo Aid' Board showing that tho difference between 'current market prices of goods and those paid by tho board had affected a savmg of £842' during the year. This return (which is furnished by Mr. L. H. Fox, house steward) shows that when the market price of flour was £14 10s. per ton, the Hospital was paying £8 10s.; when £16, £12 os. Bd.; When £18, £14 14s. The Hospital consumed 11,2001b. of butter paving only Is. Id., instead of tho'market rate of Is. 2d. per lb. Potat-oes had cost tho board £4 15s. per ton, against the market rate of, £6 JOs. A saving of 3d. per lb. on 43201b. of bacon was affected, and by making the board's own soda water* a saving of £208 was made. Taking it full and by tho report indicates that old traditions are being broken down, and that tho Itoard is now buying in tho cheapest market in bulk lots, instead of dealing with retail tradesmen for small quantities.