LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2573, 22 September 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Postmaster-General announces that complaints have been received from foreign telegraph administration's that week-end cable messages for delivery by post aro not always sufficiently addressed. These messages should bear a full mailing address. They are delivered as registered letters and in order to ensure delivery senders aro advised to supply tho full designation of the addressee or firm, or the full street address. It is not tho practice to follow Hie plan of "trying" supposed addresses in tho delivery of registered letters, and week-end messages not sufficiently addressed, therefore, are m danger of not being delivered. As the troops from the Taulierinika-u will march over the Rimutaka range to Trentham to-morrow, motorists aro warned of the difficulty tliey will have in negotiating that road. With the advance of spring, tho labour market in Wellington has improved. The Labour Department lias always been able to report a satisfactory condition of things locally, but the report for last week is surprisingly good, for the figures show that only threo applicants for work were not placed, and that they are men incapable of dcing heavv manual work. The applicants numbered eighty-soven, employment was found for eighty-three,' and on© will leave for'a. position in & fow days. Forty-nine of the men were sent to State employment, and thirty-four to private employment. There aro still vacancies for suitable men on tho railway works at To Roti (near Eltham) and at Raetihi. According to Mr. H. D. Teuiiont, who arrived hero from Cape Town last Saturday, South Africa will bo ablo to send to Europe thousands of soldiers, who are already .trained in every branch of the war business savo the bayonet drill. There was no time for the Union l'orees to' receive this instruction before tho German South-West African campaign, and fortunately there was little or no call for this-type of fighting, a either did the Union Forces employ artillery to any great extent, but, oil such few occasion as tho field guns were brought into play, the shooting was very deadly. Two petitions were presented to the House yesterday by Dr. Newman asking Parliament to refuse to give to the Wellington City Council power to go on with tho proposed scheme for runliing a. tramline through tlio Basiii Rcserve, and asking Parliament to favour the minor plan which will safeguard a valuablo city lung and at the samo timo greatly aid traffic. The petitions were signed ' ono by Leonar" al'Kcnzio and 400 others, and' tho other by Joseph Ames and 450 others.

Tho coming of the harvest season is being patriotically 'borne in mind by some men who consider they can be of service. Last week the Labour Department in Wellington received apph r cations from six men, all of whom aro in employment, offering to serve in the harvest field when the -time arrives. Their names havo been registered, and they will be called up if they are required. So far, about forty men for harvesting havo registered in tlio City. At Thursday's meeting of the Hos-pital-and Charitable Aid Board Mr. F. T. Mooro will move:—"That in order to ascertain the standard of quality of all goods and drugs supplied to the Hospital, steps be taken to engage tho services of an analytical chemist."

The making of the military camp at Featherston will provide work for a large number of carpenters and drainlayers. The Wellington office of tho Labour Department has authority to send a good many of these- artisans to tlio camp, and it is probable that most of the men will havo to be secured outside this city and district, as there is little surplus labour in theso callings about Wellington. The men required may bo drawn from as far north as Auckland and as far south as Timarn.. Tho suburb of Taitville, in Wellington, is about to bo enlarged by tho erection of five now workers' dwellings. A meeting of the Workers' j3oard was held oil ana tho purchasers for the new dwellings wero selected.

It was supposed by some people that since the war began the carpenters 111 New Zealand have had a rather dull time, but the Labour Department reports that that is not the case. According to the Department, carpentering slackened a little in the early days of the war, but since then has found its feet again, and some tradesmen have had -more work to do than they had in peace time. At present, the condition of the trade, it is said, is very good. Only four carpenters applied to the Department for work last week, and all tour were placed. Mr George London, formerly. Mayor of Potono, and a well-known figure on local bodies in Wellington, has'returned to Wellington after several years residence in Sydney! Mr. London s home is now at Castle Hill, about seven miles from Sydney on. tli© Parramatta line. In the courso of a chat, Mr. London remarked that there, was not the same keen municipal spirit in bydnev and suburbs as existed in New Zealand and in Wellington in particular. For example, ho stated that m larraniatta —the oldest town m Australia— 'there was not a stretch, say, of a quartor of a mile of what he would call a perfect road. He was inclined to attribute that to the aldormanic system, by which the Mayor was elected by compact with the alderman or councillors, not by the people. A stay m the suburbs of Sydney was unsettling as to one's ideas of land . values. Bound about where he lived it was possible to buy several acres of orchard land m full bearing and a cottage for ioUO. With the coming into operation ot tlio big irrigation works in Now South Wales ho was inclined to think that the fr'uitfulness oHand in Now South Wales would have an effect on rural lands in New Zealand, and that perfect reciprocal understanding would be to the mutual .beneGt of both 'countries as wo in New Zealand would bo able to got their early products, and later in the season New Zealand would have a market in New .South Wales. As the grass oil some of the greens on the new municipal golf links has not grown so well as expected, the opening of the links, which was to have taken place about the end of the present month, will not take place before the middle' of October at the earliest. There will be an opening ceremony, and probably an arrangement will be made to get some of the cjqack players to play a match, which will have the effect 'of setting, a .main for the now course — the first municipal links in Now Zealand. "The feeling over here," writes Mr. E. Pirie Bush (son of Mr. Tl'.os. Bush, of Wellington) from New York, "is all pro-Allies, but, of course, everybody hopes that- the tJ.S.A. will keep out of it. Slie is doing much more by keeping out than she would, by entering into the awful squabble, as she is supplying shiploads of munitions to the Allies every week, and if she went to war she would have to reserve the stock for herself." ' Bishop Sprott yesterday consecrated the Church of Epiphan}' at Kuripuni, and in the evening he preached in St. Matthew's Church, Masterton. Chevrolet—Hero is an opportunity for a reliable up-to-dato motor-car at a reasonAble price. Equipment includes only accessories of proven qualities, such as KehiUi carburetter, .Connecticut ignition. Autolite self-starter, groy muffler. TWi arc only some of tlio splendid features of the famous Chevrolet car. Pull par- ■ ticulars will be mailed you if you coin-' mnnicate with The Dominion Motor Vehicles, Ltd., G5 Courtenay Placo.—Advt. .Military men, commercial men, inon in overy walk of life, can bo fitted with comfortable easy fitting boots at Gc<>. Fowlds, Ltd., Manners Street, vendors of the best, B ritish and Colonial makes.—Advt.

The following motion will be tabled by Mr. B. R. Gardener at to-morrow's meeting of tho Hospital and Charitable Aid Board: —"(a) That all motions standing on tlio minute-books of the board relating to severance of the Horowheima district or part thereof from the Wellington hospital distrjet be rescinded. (1j) That this hoard offers no objection to tho proposed severance of tho Horowhenua district from the Wellington hospital district, tho Wellington Hospital Board retaining control and administration of the Otaki Sanatorium and the lands supporting it." It is regardod as certain that the last of tho City Rugby matches will bo played next Saturday afternoon, when Athletic and- Petone will play, off for the championship' of tho season.Athletic have held' tho honour for several seasons, hut a little over a week ago tlioy were defented by the suburban, team by 24 points to nil.

For the Royal Wellington Choral Society's performance of "Elijah," to be given in tho Town Hall on October 26, tlio committoo has engaged the following soloists Soprano. Mts. Gower Bums, of Ohristchurcncontralto, Miss Nina Caldow; tenor, Mr. Martin Duff, of Dunodin; baritone, Mr. John Prouse. For the part or the youth, tho society has decided on an innovation. The music allotted to the ycuth is usually given to a soprano singer,- but on this occasion it is to bo sung by Master Rodnoy Pankhorst, who is well known to concert-gocrs in Wellington as a very artistic singer. The recent "southerly" gale at Petone caused sonio damage to tho craft moored in the now boat harbour. As* 1 yet no mooring-lines liavo been fixed, but for some weeks boat-owners have taken advantage of the harbour, and anchored thoir boats there. Under ordinary circumstances this arrangement worked satisfactorily, but tho last squall being somewhat severe caused Mr. H. Head's launch to be swept on to tho wharf piles, and three otners wore washed on to the beach.

Shortly after midnight on Monday a Petone Council employee named R. Swaysland was driving down the Koro. koro Road when a portion of the harness broke away, causing the horse to and kick, with the result that the driver was thrown from tho cart, the wheel of which passed over and severely injured his leg. Tho Central Branch, of the National Reserve assembled at the Te Aro Schoolrooms last evening, and afterwards carried out some interesting manoeuvres in the direction of Brooklyn. The-platoon has arranged a shooting competition with tho Hataitai branch, to tako place] on Saturday. Mr. J. Payne' gavo_ notice in the House of Representatives yesterday of the following question addressed to the Minister of Defence-.—Why an'unnaturalised German in' tho person of Dr. Teicheimaun (West Coast) has been appointed for military medical sen-ice when plenty 'of our own medical men are available?

In the discussion on the Scenery Preservation Amendment Bill in tho Souse last night, the member for Otaki (Mr. W. H. Field) impressed upon the Gov< ernmont the necessity for keeping cattle out of bush which it was intended should be preserved for scenic or other purposes. -At present cattle were allowed to roam through some reserved' areas, and the result was deplorable.. The cattle ate up or destroyed all undergrowth. This lot the wind and sun into the bush and immediately _ it' began tc die. Some patches of which he ,had knowledge had entirely disappeared from this cause. The Prime Minister agreed that the point mentioned by the member for Otaki was a most important one. Experience had shown that in the North Island, if cattle were allowed to roam' through and feed on hush, it very quickly deteriorated or disappeared.

Messrs. Townsend and Paul have decided to improve tho utility of tlieir . premises by adding cold storage accommodation.,' For some years now tlio firm lias been tho main medium between fclio fisliormen nnd fish salesmen of -tho City, and as tlie trade lias steadily increased tho necessity of having cold storage accommodation 111 order that in times of plenty 6tocks may be frozen.. against a spare market. This is to bo , provided in the cellnr beneath the firm' 3 main building, ivhicli will offer 1200 square feet, to be divided into foiir chambers. Not only Trill fish be frozen, but there ore certain fruits and other perishable articles dealt in by the firm that can be preserved by such a convenience as that decided upon.

Members of the Suburbs Defence Riflo Club at tho front are:—C. -J. Fisher, P. Whitemau, D. M'Kay, G. A. Tullock, M. Evans, F. L. Norris, C. J Aston, P. Barcham, G. A. Ferris, C. E. Makeham, F. J. Snelling, M. H. Bakor, and S. E. Norgrove. Tho lecture on "The Physiology of Scenery," which was announced for tonight's meeting of N tho Wellington l Philosophical Society is unavoidably postponed, Dr. L. Cockayne being unfortunately oonfined to his bed by a severe attack of influenza. An interesting programme has, however, been arranged. Professor T. H. Easterfield will speak on "The Manufacture of Searchlight Carbons," and Mr.-G. Hogben, C.M.G., will read a paper on "The East Coast Earthquakes, September to November, 1914." Friends of members and all who are interested in the questions to ho disoussed will be welcome.