LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 305, 13 September 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Minister of Dcfonco lias received advice that tho Forty-first Reinforcements have, reached another port of call, "All Well." • Tho Acting-Postinaster-Gencrnl, tlu< Hon. W. D. S. MiicDonnlcl, lias received notification of the establishing in Paris oif a branch of the Belgian Central Bureau of Information (Havro) regarding prisoners of war. Tho address of the brunch is 63 Avenue des Ohanips-Elysecs, Paris. S. Another building is boinjj; erected by the Delenco Ijepnrtnicnb in thf; l>rounds of tho old To Aro railway sta< tion for use in connection with the IVjturned Soldiers' Effects Branch of the Department. Tho now building, which, is a wooden structure, occupies a site near the eastern end of the railway reserve botween the old tracks and tho Wakeficld Street fence. The work is being carried out by Mr. J. Standen. The framework oif the new structure is already well under way. The births registered for the four metropolitan areas of New Zealand in August 'numbered 716, as against 738 in July, a decrease of 22. The deaths in. July were '185, an increase of 67 as compared with tho previous month. Of the total deaths, males contributed 240, females 236. Seventy-one of the deaths were of children under fivo years of age, being 14.61 per cent, of tho whole number. Forty-nine of these were under one year of age. The Advisory Board of the Transport Workers "of New Zealand, on which body, the Wellington Tramways Union lias representation, hell a mooting yesterday to consider the pqsitwn which has arisen as the result, of tjie tramway workers having refused the (By Council's offer of a 5 per. cent, rise in wages all round. The proceedings were held in camera, and no statement as to tho decision arrived at (if any) was made available to tlie Press. 'Shift meetings of, the tramway workers are to bo held to-day to receive a report on. yesterday's deliberations. . . , rn The nexUf-kin of 6492 Private T. Dunne, Fourteenth Battalion, A.1.1. , ., is shown on the records of the Australian Imperial Force us Mrs. JV. O'SnlHvan, 181 Lambton Quay. Wellington, but communications addressed thereto have been returned unclaimed. Ajivouo knowing the address of the next-of-kin is requested to communicate with the Officer in Charge of .Records, Australian Imperial lorces, Victoria, Barracks, Melbourne. _ ■ A notice issued by the War Office with reference to Rnssian tradoapnears in this week's Gazette. Bntinh subjects are informed that large sprc.ficdareaaofllussia.'i'eiobewa.ded as territory in hostile occupation. The Mayor of Miramnr (Mr. F. Townsix weeks. • The officers of the Railway Battalions NiZ.K., this year arranged a loothall'competition anions tho various companies,, says the Christchurch "Sun." Last month the ropreseiitaUvea of the Ist and 2nd (0 brisk lurch companies defeated the 7th awl Bth (Wellington) by 33 points to i. On Monday last the Christchurch team met iti Dunedin * team representing the sth and 6th (Dunedin). and rtli (Inverohrgill) companies. Again victory went to Christchurch, this time by 36 points to nil. A request for exemption from borough rates was made by Scots Co - lego to the Miramar Borough Council last evening. Tho Mayor said that tee borough *as already heavily l"t thioneli the Government taking up 500 or GOO acres of land on which they were unable to collect any rates, '.he college could claim exemption for. lour acres, but were asking exemption for the, whole ten acres. ft> opposed the enuest. Councillor Underwood mo\ert that the request -bo not granted. Councillor Chapman seconded, and the motion was carried. At a meeting of the Wellington Labour Representation Committee, ueld last evening, at the. Trades Hall, ctra • references to Mr. H. E. Holland 51P mado public by a do'sgato, woie repudiated, and the delete was suspended. A vote,of conhdenco in MiHolland was carried unanimously. Efforts are being mado bv the Canadian Trade and Commerce Department to trrange for several sailing vessels to SadeVLen tho east coast of Canada and New Zealand. Mr. AA. A. Beddoc, Canadian Trade Commissioner informed an Auckland reporter that his (joveniment arranged 1910 to subsidise a line of steamers between the east wast of Canada and New Zealand, but BhKO the outbreak of .the war no otcamera had been running. The endeavour to secure sailing ships for me wrrice was the/result of urgent representations mado by 'him for more shipping space. . Departures from established international law, adopted by belligerents n the present war, were reterred to j> Mr R M Algie in the course of, a lecture at the* Auckland. TJniveniiy College. On the side of the Germans, U said, it could be shown conclusively that some ten of the leading rub. on the subject had been supplanted.} new practices which were as drastic as they Were illegal On he.part o Britain the outstanding act had been the proclamation by the Admiralty o tho North Sea as a military area, Hie chief justification for the stop, said Mr. Algie, was that it was in reprisal for enemy violation of tho law.