LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2429, 7 April 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The erection of the hutments at Tientham camp is to be proceeded with very shortly, in fact, tenders close to; morrow. The contract will be a large one. There are.to be ,81 men's huts, each 140 ft. by 23ft., to accommodate 3-100 men, and 'eleven officers' 'huts each having teg. cubicles. The huts are to have walls and roof of wood covered with corrugated iron. The time allowed for the . completion -of the. huts is six weeks from the date of the acceptance of a tender.

, Colonel Lpgan's weekly report on the health of the Samoa garrison runs:— "Health of. troops fair. Fifth Regiment—Private Hook; colitis; Private A. J. Larsen, peptic ankle; Private J. Lucre, appendicitis; Private J. H. Mitchcll, septic. ankle: Private 11. V. Wright, swollen glands of neck. Railway Engineers: Snpner A. L. Lovd, renal calculus; and Sapper G. St-aden, filiarsis. '

, At the request of an influential deputation, says our Masterton. correspondent, Mr. C. E. Daniell lias consented to again become a candidate for the representation of Wairarapa- on the Wellington Harbour Board, and he. was nominated yesterday afternoon. Messrs. Alexander M.'Farlane and Clias. K. Cross have also been nominated. It is expected that the contest will ho between these three,

The Presbytery yesterday passed a resolution expressing gratification that tho Hon. James Allen had refused to accede to the request of the Moderate League to establish a wet print-Gen at Trenthaiii, viewing with indignation the attempt to foist liquor on men volunteering for activo service, and trusting that' should any such attempt in future be made it will nieeK with short shrift from the Minister of Defence and the military authorities.— Press Association.

An enlarged group photograph' of the nine Levin men • who are leaving for the front has. been presented to the Mayor (Mr. B. R-. Gardener) by Corporal Archibald. Tliis is to be hune; in tlie public library. The men were fareiwolled at a large public ghtherins on Saturday at the Arcadia Hotel.

Only forty-four applications for work were niiido to the Wellington Labour Bureau. last week. Thirty-seven .of thd opplica n't® were Insurers. Rmployrrient "•.n.s.j'ouud fqr,twenty-eight of those who applied, aud all tho positions were urivatft.

The Hospital and Charitable Aid Actrequires that for all charity institutions trustees shall be elected every year. Contributors to three bodies coming. within the scope of this requirement mot in Wellington yesterday, and elected trustees as follows:—Wellington Society for Relief of the Aged and Needy—Messrs. W. J, Hellier, A. Lindsay, and G. Petherick. Wellington Ladies' Christian Association—Mrs. Anmo Anderson, Mrs. Glassou, and the Kev. J. .Paterson. Wellington Convalescent Home—Mrs. W. S. Moorohousd and Mrs. Young.

The New Zealand Federated Paintr ers' and Decorators' Association odciu ed its conference in Wellington vester. day. Proceedings wore in committee.-

The present is the time for the registration of factories, and the Labour Department 6tatcd yesterday that, although only two days' opportunity fof registering, had elapsed, over five hundred applications for icgistration had teen received.

It is five years s : nce aii industrial census was taken in New Zealand, but the Labour Department is now preparing to take another. This year's censuß will be somewhat narrower m scope than its immediate predecessor, because it will be confined strictly to workers employed in factories. The Inspector of lactones is instituting a new method or taking the census. During the next tew days he will send out to all factory proprietors books which he will ask them to substitute for the wages and time-books they are iiow. using. The idea is that tho entries should be made in duplicate by the use of carbons, and' that the carbon copies should be collected by officers of the Department. Any factory proprietor who finds-it impracticable to use the books for his own purposes may obtain from the Department a supply of time-sheets on which to fill- in the particulars desired by those responsible for the compilation of the census. The particulars required are age, sex, nature of work* total hours worked per week, and wageg paid. The factories' year begins on April 1, and ends on March 31.

The Mayor of Otahuliu (Mr. Alfred Sturges) has made a handsome gift to the residents of the district, in the shape of fourteen acres of land on the l'ort. Richard Estate, situated almost in the heart of the borough (says' the Auckland "Star"). The land, which is valued at £3000, is to be lised as a public park, and a hill upon,.it commands, a splendid prospect of the surrounding districts of Mangere, Papatoetoe, ana Otira.

The rural, workers' dwellings at Solvvay, near Maaterton, are' now practioally completed (&ays our Jlastertoir correspondent), and some of them are occupied. The dwellings are substantial, and the laud attached to them should permit of useful cultivation.

■ll'ere is a class of man who has i 11 som ® disappointments lately. . l'liey call im the tourist. He comes from anywhere, and it is not always easy to recognise liim, because lie has become a man of experience in the recruiting business, and lie knows lpost of the pitfalls. But the two shrewd detectives who see every recruit tluit goes through every day are also nion of experience, and tliey do not miss much. ■The tourist, to. be more explicit, is a mail who lias been in camp in another State, and for reasons of his own, or other reasons equally good, lias ceased to be a soldier after living for weeks 01 days, as the case may be, at the' pense of the country. After a spell in Queensland, say, he moves on to. Victoria, enlists again as a iiiaii with no previous service", and spends another period as the guest of the Government. The trick is repeated in other States — that is, if it comes off—and so lie goos the round. There have been quite a lot of tourists.at Victoria Barracks lately, but few, if any, of them have gone to the Liverpool camp. They want out there men who enlist for the purpose of becoming soldiers' and fighting for the Empire. It is a costly enough' business raising and equipping an army without hav]ng to provide for tourists of the sort described." —Sydney "Daily Telegraph'."

Tw'o very... old-established brewing firms, Messrs. Campbell and Ehrenfried and the Great Northern Brewery, have amalgamated under the title of the Lion Brewiry, Limited,, says .a. Press Association telegram from Auckland. The new directorate includes Messrs. A. M. Myers, M.P.. •Philip Luckie. and A. S. Bankart. The firm of Campbell and Ehrenfried' was established by Sir John Logan Campbell as far back as 1840.

A touching and entirely spontaneous and uncontemplated tribute to the lata Bishop Grimes was paid by the congregation which' crowded the Barbadoes Street Cathedral at Chriatchurch at the 11 o'clock Mass on Sunday week (says the "Press")'. After the Mass, as the people wore beginning to go out, the organist, Mr. Thorie.v, played the 'Dead March' in' Saul" as a recessional. movement from the church immediately ceased, and' the whole congregation, rose and stood; still till the finale of the noble composition was reached, and then, instead of leaving the building the whole bo'dv filed past the Bishon's tomb at the Chapel of the Holy Souls', falling to their. knees to say a_ brief prayer as tliey passed it, and in a few moments tlio chapel was ablaze with votive candles lighted by the kneeling people. A hurricane of si sovoro nature was experienced by the 6teamer Atua while ?ho was lying at Vavau on March 17. Ca'pta'iri Wallis stated on' Monday (says the ''New Zealand Herald") that.after the Atua left Ha'apai the weather became worse, and just as tlio vessel reached Vavau the wind began to blow with hurricane force. As thero was every indication of the blow lasting for some time, the Atua was doubly moored to the strong wharf, and consequently did not suffer any damage. The hurricane lasted from noon 011 March 17 until 6 a.m. on March 20, accompanied by fierce > squalls and incessant rain. From 8 p.pi. on March 18 to 8 a.m. on March 19' a. total of 13in. of .rain fell. It was reported that throughout Vavau coconut trees, buildings, qnd small sailing craft had been damaged extensively. Traders . in Vavau estimate that the copra output _will be put back for one or two years as a result of the blow. There is a large aiiiount of copra to be shipped from Vavau during the next three or four months, but after that there will bo very little for some considerable time. ' Captain Wallis stated that the centre of.the hurricane passed to tho north of Vavau, so-that the rest of the Toiigah Group probably escaped. The blow was not experienced at either Samoa or Fiji.