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LOCAL AND GENERAL

In Wellington factories, according to the annual report of tfho Labour Department, a total of £830,958 was paid in wages for the year ending March 31, 1915.

A paragraph in- the Prisons Report presented to Parliament yesterday states that tho provisions of the First Offenders' Act were not invoked by Judges and Magistrates to the same extent in 1914 as in the previous twelve months, but the number of cases dealt with under the Act fluctuates so greatly year by year that it is impossible to draw any particular inference from tho statistics presented.. The main fact to be considered is that tho Act is still largely availed of for the purpose for which it was originally passed, and is the means by which many offenders who would otherwise bo required to serve a term in jprison arc enabled! to rehabilitate themselves. Recently a question was asked the Minister of Defence in the House of Representatives by Sir Joseph Ward as to why the Defence Department had not given the relatives prior notice of the return of Privates Muidrock and Davidson to Whangarei. The two men had reached Wellington among the wounded on the Willochra. Mr. Hugh Muidrock, Mayor of Whangarei, and father of Trooper Muidrock, has written to the Defence Minister btating that 110 ground existed for the complaint. He was kept fully informed of his son's movements. Trooper Muidrock was met' in. Wellington by two brothers, and proceeded to Whangarei with thorn. "Every attention was given to him," writes his father. "My soil has expressed himBelf as more than grateful for the care taken of him, and both he and his relatives are more than pleased at the indulgence allowed him in getting _ away privately and quietly from the ship for Iris home."

Mr. Tom Pollard arrived from the south yesterday morning, and spent the entire day .coaching the principals in the Wellington Amateur Operatic Society's coming performance of "Les Cloches de Corneville." He is going on to Masterton, where he. is to direct a performance of "The Toreador," and will return to Wellington at the end of the month to take up his duties in connection with the local socicty The report comes from Kilbirnie that furthor burglaries have talien place recently at residences there. No trace has as yet been found of the body of Christopher Neilson, a farmer who was drowned while endeavouring to ford the river near Mungaroa. on July 21. A conference of the fruit growers, of New Zealand convened by the Now Zealand' Fruitgrowers' Federation will' commence at the Esperanto Hall, Lambton Quay, at 10 o'clcck this morning. The which will he opened by the Prime Minister (the Right Iton. W. F. Massey), will bo attended by delegates from the north of Auckland right through the Dominion to Southern Otago. It will probably occupy a period of three days. Mr. A. M. Robertson is the secretary.

Tho. price of butter was reduced in Auckland yesterday olio penny per lb., from Is. Bd. to Is. 7d. The reduction has presumably been brought about by the increase of supplies due to tho commencement of the dairying season.

Captain von Woddigen, who was acclaimed by the Germans as a national hero for sinking the cruisers Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue, in the North Sea, and was later lost with tlio TJ29 (with which he went down), was for some timo employed as correspondence clerk with Jaffy Bros., exporters, Dundee, and was a student at the Technical Collego there. These facts the "Southland News" learned from a fellow-clerk who sat besido Weddigen in. tlio office. This fellow-clerk is now a member of tlio 7th Reinforcements, and left Invercargill for Trentliam a few clays ago. As Dundee is an important submarine hase, tlio business of itho German officer in that city may bo readily understood. It was reported in Christchurcli on Wednesday that just after the express train had passed the Selwyn River on Tuesday morning a charge of _ shot struck the sido of 0110 of tlio carnages, and that some of tlio pellets had hit two passengers, who were standing on the carriage platform. The police havo niado inquiries, and succeeded in tracing the person who discharged tlio gun, a lad of thirteen years of ago. ■ The boy bad taken his father's gun out to shoot sonij birds sitting on a fence, and the train passed, about fifty yards distant, as the shot was fired. Considerable interest has been oroked by a largo new building—the largest of its class in the Dominion—erected in Tory Street just off tho Courtenay Place woodblocking. We-are pleased to bo able to inform our nianj- readers that this buildincr libs now been opened as a Garage by fcljs Domintpn Motor Vehicles, Ltd,, the BMtW •.

Napier citizens yesterday forwarded 1591 heads of flowers to Dunedin, where they are to bo sold for. the Patriotic Fund.

In his annual report presented to Parliament vesterdav, the Secretary of Labour (Mr. F. W. Bowlcy)' states that as the outcome of the war one of tho many problems to bo faced will be that of finding suitable employment for those workers who return to New Zealand' unable to follow their former occupations. In this connection, he continues, it is interesting to note that already some stops have, been taken in Austria for the teaching of workers not only in new methods of tho handling of tools, but also in teaching entirely new trades. In accordance with tho Minister of Labour's instructions, lie hoped to be enabled shortly to submit proposals in n similar direction for adoption in New Zealand. A request was received by cable by Mr. Alfred Hewson. _ of Auckland, supposed to be from his son, Gunner Alfred Hewson, of the Field Artillery, serving with the New Zealand forces. The cablegram was dated Alexandria, July 23, and said: "Cable tenner, sick," ami was signed with the surname of tho supposed sender. li:quiry was made, and it is ascertained that no news as to' Gunner Hpwson having been sick has been received by the_ authorities. A warning was recently issued by tho Minister of Defence, as to cabled request for money,, and Mr. Hewson is of tho opinion that his 6on cannot be in need of money eveu if he is sick, as the* boys are so well looked after when in hospital.

One of tho surprises of the war, says a Canadian paper, has been the German development of the machine-gun. It is generally understood that the issue of machine-guns in the British Army amounts to four to one battalion, while it has been established tha.t the Germans have 16 to each battalion. In many cases some of the trenches tho Canadians attacked were wholly defended by machine-guns,' and not by rifles, and the need for moremachinegvns has reached such a pitch tliat wealthy Canadians are now presenting such weapons to trie Candian units. From Montreal to Calgary such presentations have been made.. Toronto, London, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Kegina, and other parts have, through patriotic citizens, purchased machine-guns for issue to tho new ■ Dominion battalions going to England. In two days, 12 guns wero secured for the battalion training <ifc Vancouver, and it was hoped, within a week, to secure the full quota of 16. The ordinary macliinogun costs £120, but for £200 a gun can be procured wh'ich weiighfe only 251b.,. and which can be packed and handled by one man. This is the Lewis gun, used in most British aeroplanes. The machine-gun in a, trench is worth half a company of riflemen. Its firo control is better, and the zone swept by it is swept more efficiently than by infantry fire. An anti-Gorman union lias been formed in London, with tho object of fostering national ideas, to keep alive the patriotic spirit of the people; to defend British freedom, right-s, and privileges from German invasion; to defend. British industry against German competition; to fight against, German influences in the social, financial, industrial, and political life of 1 the British people. • In a statement regarding its proposed-meth-ods, the union advocates that Germans and their property throughout the Empire shall be seized and 'held as security for the humane and reasonable treatment of British prisoners in Germany, the permanent strengthening of existing laws for tho registration of aliens, and tho reformation of the naturalisation laws, in order to prevent naturalised Germans from being members of the Privy Council, or either House of Parliament. The union encourages the sale of goods niadfe by British labour, and advocates alterations in Companies' Acts, so as to prevent a controlling interest in any Birtash' company being held by Germans.

At last night's mooting of tlio Roman Catholic Club's Literary and Debating Society, .Mr. J. J. Sullivan, of Auckland, delivered an interesting address on the subject of "Ireland and lier Heroes." There was a good attendance of members and their friends, who highly appreciated the speaker's remarks. A hearty vote of thanks was unanimously carried, at the instanco of the chairman, Mr. L'. T. Reichel. The health of the men in the Maori training camp at Narrow Neck remains satisfactory, says the Auckland "Herald." The discovery _of some cases of measles caused strict precautionary measures io be taken. Up to Friday 10 cases had been reported. Another case was discovered yesterday, and sent ,to the District Hospital. One case has been discharged from the hospital. Some 40 men, who had been in contact with the earlier cases, were isolated, but as the disease has not attacked them the restrictions will be removed' at once. The fine weather of the past week has had a beneficial effect on the general health and spirits of the men. Tlio camp was visited by Hon. Dr. Pomare on Saturday morning, and by Dr. T. J. Hughes, district health officer. 011 Sunday.

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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2531, 4 August 1915, Page 6

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LOCAL AND GENERAL Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2531, 4 August 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2531, 4 August 1915, Page 6

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