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LOCAL AND GENERAL

The following 84-3 cases of influenza were reported between noon on Thursday last and noon on Monday:—North Auckland health district. 1: Auckland, 18; Hawke's Bay, 63; Wellington, 96: Canterbury. 89; Ota.go, 76. Of the total, DII 9 ens;» were mild, two penumonic, and two severe. Two of the most urgent questions now facing the municipal authorities are those of power stations (a subject involved in the consideration of hydroelectric schemes affecting the district) and the water supply. With the former the CHv Cnunril that it will have to take dcoisive action if there is not going to bo an even more serious '■"psikdown recently occurred. It is true another 1000 h.p. multitubular bnili.-r is nearly ready for use at the trp'nway* power-house, but that will only suffice to keep things going during the coming winter. Tho problem that confronts the City Council is whether to ffo in for a new and very much larger power-house altogether, or to make-shift until ample hydro-electric power is available for tramways and other purposes. This subject, on which the tramways manager and City Engineer (Air. W. It. .\torton) has reported, also the water supply question, are to be considered at a special meeting of tho City Counoil to-morrow evening. . Acting on the advice of the Reserves and Forestry Committee, the oxe*itiv« of the Greater Wellington Town-plan-ning Association wrote to' the Marine Department suggesting that pohutukami trees should be planted • on Ward Island. The Minister has replied promising that the suggestion will bo considered. The fortnightly meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was held last evening, Mr. F. Meadowcroft presiding. The inspector! report dealt 'with several cases of cruelty to animals and fowls. Since the previous, meeting two cases had been before tne Court.' In one case the defendant was fined J$ Us., including costs, and in the other defendant was awarded three months' imprisonment. The subscriptions received amounted to .£23 12s. 6d., including ,£1 Is. each from Messrs. 'r. K Cnckhill. A. U. Butt,. T. Fennnell, F. G. Cray, A. F. Roberts, H. Headland, M. J. Kilgour, Mrs. Seville, Mr. A. Forrest, and Jil each from Mnnt, C'ottrell and Mrs. W. M. Shand. Cleoforte Campanini has for years past been a name- to conjure with in tho world of grand opera in America . and Italy. For many seasons Campanini ' conducted magnetically nt the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, but for some years later he was secured by the Chicago Grand Opera Company. His death, which occurred in December last, was greatly lamented. At the funeral service on December 22 a wonderful choir participnU'd, the members of which included Mary Garden, Galli-Curci, Rosa Raisa, Yvonne Gall, and the entire Chicago Grand Opera Company. Forest Lamont and Hector Dnfranc sang Faner's "Crucifix," Tita Selvipa sang the "Pnnis Angelicas,-" and GnUi-CuTCi .an "Avo Maria." The two cubs given birth to on Christmas Day by Maud; the handsome lion- ' ess in the ""Zoo," are doing famously. Mand used to carry her offspring about so much in her mouth that it was thought that they were not thriving- as well as they might. Since then, however,' the mother has become a shade less jealous, and the two cubs, now fat and frolicsome, nre an in'teresting sijht to visitors as they gambol in the sunshine. Messrs. Furkort and Hnv, two members of the Rivers Commission at present reporting on the question of flood prevention and drainage on the Taieri Plain, took advantage of the Presence in the district of Captain Euan Dickson and his aeroplane to make a flying survey of portion of the river and adjoining lands subject to flooding. In conversatTon with an "Otngo Daily Times" reporter these gentlemen stated that even thoujrh their (light had to be some, what curtailed owing In shortage of ben. zine, they were able to get quite a comprehensive view of the area affected, and both expressed (heir belief that there i» a field for the aeroplane in reconnaissance work for obtaining rapidly n general idea of the salient features oi any piece of country so Hint detail work need not be wasted on projects which a (lying view shows nt once (o be impracticable. With a view to thinning out the deer in certain areas, the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society has issued a number of permits to reliable sportsmen to shoot dec.-, irrespective of sex, in that portion of the North Canterbury district, bounded by the Hurunui and Clarence Rivers respectively, and taking in the lake Tennyson district, the permit to expire on December 31 next. Several easily observable regulations arc nindo conditional of the permit: (1) No part of the game shot is to be disposed of; (2) the boundaries are to be strictly observed; (3) a record is to be kept of the number killed, sexes to be stated, and to be handed in nt the expiration of the permit. A correspondent of the "Southland Times" writes that Stewart Island has been visited by a record number of tourists this season and owing in the spell of good weather visitors nre still' patronising the island. Like Bluff ami Riverton, Stewart Island is enjnviiiß somewhat of a mild hnd boom. Many sections facing tho sea front have recently been purchased by those who intend to build homes for the summ»r months, and when the mildness of the winter on this sea-girt island is better known many will cross from the main, land. The question of the legality of corporations holding' meetings on Sundays has cropped up in New South Wales owing to the North Illawnrm Council having decided that there should he a call of the. council for a snoeial meeting on Sunday, March. 28. ' The object of tho meeting is to inspect a road which is stated to bo in such a dangerous condition thnt vehicles have capsized upon it. In England an amendment of the Sunday Observance Act prohibits a meeting of any corporation on Snndnv, and enacts that all business transacted at a Sunday meeting is void. There is no express provision of the law to tli? same "ffect in force in New South Wales. At the same lime the common law is (o the effect that no business in (he nature of a judicial character can be effectively transacted on Sunday. Moreover, in this case, the meeting is by a special call, which leaves the members liable to pro. sedition if they fail to attend. Such a provision would not be applicable to a •Sunday meeting. .At 10.33 a.m. yesterday the fire brigade '. received a call t:> Pl'iiHßr.ov's store, situ- ' atcd at. the corner of Main Road and ! Hanover Street, Wadestown. The roof I of the bakehouse was partly destroyed. < The _ firo originated through the over- 1 heatinc of the bakehouse chimney. '

At an early hour on Saturday morning (reports the "AVaikato.lndependent") n farmer living about a mile from Ohaupo noticed a young man of about 22 years of age, wandering aimlessly about his paddocks. On going over to the lad he found he was utterly exhausted, and uuable to speak, Ho made signs, and wrote on a bit of paper that lie had a car up the road about half a mile, but hnd run out of benzine, and ho had spent the night, without Men an overcoat on, under a tree beside the road. The farmer is unable to give the young man's name as he is a stranger to him ; and he has not recovered sufficiently to speak, but the ear is a grey one, and the number is H.M. 1501. Tile young man now lies in a critical condition Tuatara lizards are reported to be holding their own on Stephen Island: in fact,' the lighthouse-keener there considers that th?y are slightly" more numerous than they were three years ago. In a report to the Under-Secretary of Internal Affairs. Mr. .tfalthus (the principal keeper on the island) says:—"Several times when I have been digging my garden patches in the bush I have fumed, up nests of luatara's eggs, which I have carefully replaced in the ground for hatching. Last year in August I turned up a cluster of seven eggs, in a patch of eround that had lain fallow for a. year. The spado had cut one of the eggs, and there was a living tuatara in it fully formed. The eggs were six inches Mow the surface, and the ground was Him and overgrown with weeds. There was no burrow or outlet from the eggs to the surface of the ground. < Tn» ; \ietas, beetles, ground spiders, etc., which no doubt form the food of the tuatara, are very plentifu. on the island." Mr.' Malthas "mentions that hawks, which, visit the island in great numbers during March and April, prey on tli.T tuatara, and he adds-.—-"The wild cats, which I consider to be the greatest enemy the tuatara Ims on the island, appear to me to be slightly on the increase, though still not -very numerous."

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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 147, 17 March 1920, Page 6

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LOCAL AND GENERAL Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 147, 17 March 1920, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 147, 17 March 1920, Page 6

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