LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2492, 21 June 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

An Australian mail will arrive at Wellington from S.vdncy direct by the Ulimaroa to-day. The Wcst-ralia, which is iliip :ii Auckland from Sydney to-day, is bringing the northern portion only of the mail. The business to come before the Wellington Central Chamber of Commerco this oveniug is as follows:—Mr. R. S. Abraham's proposals for co-operation in securing an amendment of the Land and Income Tax Assessment; delegates to represent the Chamber at the Conference of Chambers of Commerce, proposed to be held at Wellington in July or August; views of the representative of the Eastern Cable Co. on the reduction in cable rates recently effected. The Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Milk Co. have acquired a block of 28 acres of land near Awapuni, Palmerston North, on which it. is intended to erect a condensed mill; factory. It is anticipated that the cost of the buildings, together with machinery, will be upward of £100,000. and a largo number of hands will bo employed. A proposal by the. Duller County Council to raise a loan of £2000 for purchase and erection of a lime kiln at Cape Fouhvmd, with subsidiary kilns in different. parts of l.ho country, has been carried by ">% votes to 22, with t«o Muall returns to come.—Press Association. i

Since the war broko out farmers in tho Hastings district (states oiir Napier correspondent) have given fiftyjivo draught horses and forty-seven hacks, valued at £2075, to the Defence authorities. The Hastings Borough Council will likely have to double its rate (ljd.), • Ul< l a view to economy, Councillor \\ aoe has given notico to move that in view of the necessity of doubling tho rates a special committee be sot up to report as to how economies can bo eflected in the various municipal departments. The Mayor, Mr. Hart,- lias also promised to submit a scheme where--bv reductions may be made in tho expenditure. On account of Wednesday being tho Prince of Wales's Birthday the liionthlv meeting of the "Wellington Harbour Board will not be held till the following evening. Owing to the international crisis, the Wellington Accountant Students' Society had decided to forgo tho annual dinner. Members will subscribe to the Patriotic Funds the amounts they would in the ordinary courso contribute to tho annual dinner. Tho society has decided to augment these subscriptions by a donation of £5 ss. The Minister of Financo (Hon. J. Allen) has invited public accountants .to offer their services voluntary for tho audit, of tho various district funds. Tho Wellington Accountant Students' Society decided that members of the society will co-operate with public accountants in the audit of these accounts. The new State school at Brittomart Street, Berliampore, will be opened on Monday next, Juno 28, for instruction. The official opening will take placo on tho following day (Tuesday, Juno 29). The law offices will be closed for holiday on Wednesday next (Princo of Wales' Birthday). The Postmaster-General announces that he has agreed with the PostmasterGeneral of tho United Kingdom to pass cither way between Now Zealand and the United Kingdom literature for the blind printed in the taised Braille characters as follows: —Maximum weight to be raised to 61b.; tho present rato of 3d. for 2oz. to be retained up to and including the weight of 200z., but thereafter one uniform rate of sd. to. bo levied, irrespective of the extra weight up to the 61b. Therefore, for a package of 20oz. in weight the postage will be 5d., and for one weighing as much as Gib. the postage will be only lOd. Tho Postmaster-General is glad to mako these concessions, knowing personally of the efforts of devoted men and women in New Zealand to alleviate the loneliness,of some of our colonists so largely cut off from communication with their fellow beings as they are by tho affliction of blindness. The same rates will apply within the Dominion to packets of printed papers printed in raised characters for the use of the blind dispatched to or received by private persons. Regulations are already published for the exchange free of postage of packcts containing matter prepared in the raised characters and addressed to or sent by institutions for tho blind or to or by public libraries.

Mrs. James Freyberg, of Wellington, one of whose sons (Lieutenant Oscar Freyberg) was killed in the Dardanelles, has received a cable message as follows from tho Keeper of the Privy Purse: — "The King and Queen deeply regret tbo less you and the Navy have sustained by the death of your son in the service of his country. Their Majesties truly sympathise with you in your sorrow." Mrs. Freyberg lias also received messages of sympathy from all over tbo Dominion, amongst the senders being tho Prime Minister and Mrs. Massey, the Mayor of Wellington and tho 'Town Clark, and various sports bodies with which deceased had been connected. Tho following will comprise the staff at the camp of tho Second Maori Contingent, which will be established at Narrow Neck on July ICompany commandant, Captain H. Peacock, N.Z.S.C.; camp adjutant, Captain A. Main, 15th (North Auckland) Regiment; quartermaster, Lieutenant L. G. Aslvton, unattached list; instructors, Staff-Ser-geants-Major J. Barlow, A. G. Jamieson, G. Walker, and D. F. Hopkins. The Buller Hospital Board has up till recently been represented by four members from the county and four from tho borough. Owing to the increase in tho county valuation the county became entitled to five members, and the borough to three. The borough members could not agree amongst themselves as to which one should retire, so the provision of the Act requiring a ballot was adopted, and the name of Mr. A. Leaver (Mayors of Westport), and who .at the recent elections headed the poll for tbo borough representatives, was drawn to retire. Mr. Leaver has accordingly resigned. Members of the Wellington Accountant Students' Society turned up in largo numbers on Friday night to listen 'to a lecture delivered by Mr. W. E. Best, F.1.A.N.Z., of G%ristchurch. on the subject of "Branch Accounts, generally regarded as one of the best accountancy lectures that has been delivered before the for some years. Tho lecturer divided his subject as between homo and foreign branches, and drafted the necessary entries for tho incorporation of the branch accounts in tho head office. Mr. Best also dealt extensively with the question _ of remittance in transit, and goods in transit, at the end of the year, as well as tho advisability of apportioning salaries and ovorhead expenses at tbo head office; The lecturer also gave an exposition of the points arising out of foreign exchanges,, and laid down the general principles governing these accounts. Mr. Best was accorded a>hoarty vote of thanks for his lecture, and agreed to allow it to be published in tho joint transactions of tho society. It is necessary that all persons travelling to any European country should have passports. < The Minister of Internal Affairs lias written to the shipping companies, setting out this fact. Every person requiring a passport will have to submit to inquiries before tbo Governor can bo, advised to sign a passport. Application must be made to the .Minister of Internal Affairs, Sir Francis Bell, and in future an interval of fourteen days will be allowed between the application and tho issue of tho passport. Mr. D. P.. Loasby. Mayor of Greytown, writes: —"In the report of the sale of tho patriotic flag in Greytown, it was stated that Mrs. Hugh Morison, of Masterton, had presented the flag. It was Mrs. Hugh Morison, of Glenmorven, Greytown, who presented it." A fine of £50, with costs, in default one month's imprisonment, was imposed on Samuel Allen, a boardinghousolieoper in Mastorton, for keeping liquor for salo in a No-Liconse district.— Special correspondent. "The Hon. Mr. Wigram's suggestion that wo should help tho Empiro by supplying tinned meat for the troops, and that the farmers should grow sheep to suit the trade, is no doubt well meant, but Mr. Wigram is evidently unaware flint our mutton is too high a class for tinning purposes." comments Mr. Edward Newman, M.l'. "It has been carefully bred up to meet the demands of tho London frozen meat market, and it would be disastrous for farmers to reduce the quality of their stock in prder that, while the war lasts, the tinning trade might be increased. Besides, wo are serving the Empiro and tho Army much better in supplying good frozen beef and mutton which cannot be produced of the same quality by any other country in the world, and lot Australia and tbo Argentine tin their low-class stuff. Tinned meat is #hvnys inferior meat as compared with what is naturally lie in the area pertaining tn Terence, and would much prefer good New Zealand Led' tn the Lion. Mr. Wioram's filmed multon.''