LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 60, 4 December 1920, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

fii ° cr Governor-General indrn™ ol ', owin tr message to Queen Alexl.fr hVv tho r , occasl , on of Her Majesty's with lay oil December l : _"l i o ; n w ; tl the Government and people of New Zeul" I , ln fishing lour Majesty many happy returns of your Urthdav." His l.xcclleucy has received the following repy from Her Majesty :-"Please accept and convey to your Government and the people of .New Zealand my anccre thanks loi Kind congratulations upon occasion ot my birthday.--(Signed) Alexandra." 1 The Postal authorities have received adueo that the s.s'. Manuka left Svdne* at J p.m. on December 2 for Wellington, with a small English and Australian mail. Jhe s.s. Westralia left .Melbourne at 3 p.m oli December 1 for Wellington, juch .Australian nmils, including a few ba«?s from Africa and the East.

Socially printed telegraph forms' containintt Christmas and New Year greetings are to be issued by the Telegraph "epartment at a uniform charge of' ad. ■Similar telegrams wero available last year at a charge of !d.

As it lins been found that it would be awkward *o consummate the amalcama.o,l of Wellington Cily will, JIS borough on January ]. owing to that date being m the middle of the Chri«l-nias-Aew Year holidays, an arrangement has been arrived at between the two bodies tor the union to take place on lebruary 1. . ;

working on a painting job .in Jifn.v. Street yestprdny morning, a mai--I'ied wan named' Ernest ."Johnson, agea i i. yC ' n M f eU senffold and brob his right leg. me mjuraf man, who

The public schools sports meeting that crciMnif { lrra - n P e f' next Thurs'lav is and VF,. " nU 'ho Bch'ools, uwi• ]? htt 0 <ioubt th «t, if the cathei is hue, the Basin Reserve will tlfnM 1 , f" m Sle i ,l( " is anticipated ncfo I]et, [ een 39 ftn d 34 schools will comowi£" < H, aS 'i Very ■ ,vllicll desirc3 o win the championship has to enter two competitors for the 31 events' it means that each of the 30 schools will HtnL' re P ™' rl,lce ' CS enmpptitors and thirty tunes GS means .2010 competitors in a!)

I,ii- C «'T- ° f i i " lerMt to those holding Iroul-hshing licenses eamo before the ri S £ olu ' t; yesterday, when Edward B. Gardiner wns charged with failmg to produce his fishing license when requested to by a ranger. The defendant was fishing the Hutt fliver between Hay ward's and Belmont with another man. A ranger, cailie on the scene and asked Gardiner to produce his license. Gardiner, it was stated, refused to do so, nnd told the ranger to bring a test case against him It was contended for'the defendant that lie was fishing for eels nnd did not therefore ,-.ee<l to produce a license. l< urtherm >re, he thought the rangor could not demand to.see his licence until he had a trout in his possession. Air. I>. Cooke, who appenred for tho Acclimatisation Society, said the defendant was undor a misapprehension as to the interpretation of the regulations, arid the society did not press'for a heavy peiinltv. Gardiner was fined 405., and costs '435. Mr. P. J. O'Eegan appeared foi- the delendant.

Tho Tramways department of the Wellington City Corporation announces a change of time-table ir. the liimiin" of the trains to some of the more distant suburbs, Jus it is urgently desired to effoct what economies are possible in view of the existing- conditions, the authorities intend to take measures as from Monday next to cut out all unprofitable mileage oil the Seatoun ; nnd Miramar lines instead of waiting for amilgamation on February. 1. • This will mean ■ that the

cars, no\v/running empty for the greater part of the day', .will only run to the boundary, and ■ tho -boundary cars will turn back from their old terminus-at the ICilbirnie Post Ollice, thus preventing a useless duplication of cars over, the same scction of line. From' Sunday next considerable alterations aro to tako place in the Sunday time-tablo. The principal alteration will be the elimination of the

Oriental Bay service ,as a.-separate service. In future Oriental Bay cars on Sunday will run through to Karori, and make up part of that service. Minor alterations will take place in most of the other routes, tho object being as already stated, to eliminate ;as much of the unprofitable mileage as possible. Concession tickets will no longer be available on Sundays. From. Monday next pa."sen-. gcrs paying for one or more sections by means of concession tickets and desiring in travel one or: more additional sections by payment of cash will L-? required to pay the. full cash fare for the remaining, section?, instead of one penny per section as at present. .

In 'Tun Dominion's account of the evidence given 'by Mr. H. IX Bennett. in the Arbitration Court on Thursday, one point was inadvertently misstated. Dealing with the stato of the grocery trade, Mr. Bennett said that the general working expenses in 1914, were about 16 per cent, of the turnover, and. lie wns reported 11= having added that "on the same value of s^'.e.s—Hint was, on the inflated value—tl.n ( ratio would rise lii about 19 per cent, now." TliC'Word "inflated" should, of. course, have been "definled."

A sea lion, estimated, at 12ft. or moro in length, came out of tlio sra on to tlio rocks at St. Clair about noon on Sunday (says the Duneilin "Star"). . By iml hick, some boys and a dog had that end of the beach to themselves at the time, and they at oncn drove the sea lion bricfc to the ocean; but .it oniorged again, and when once moro worried by the boys and the dog it. went, out, swam with marvellous spewl about a mile eastward, rind had a few minutes' peace abreast of Musselburgh, till finally chased to the. water. The only men who saw what was going on wero too" far away to stop tho thoughtless persecution.

It is '.understood that Mr. Alberto Zeliwii'l, the Jtollxmriic violinist and conductor of (lie Melbourne I'hilharmonic, may pay a visit to 'Wellington during the Christmas) holidays.

It-was stated at Wednesday's lneetiii" of tho Canterbury Repatriation Hoard (says' an exchange) that unemployment was increasing in Christchurch, and that somo employers were reducing, their stall's. To deal'with the matter, Mr. W. . li, . Leadlcy suggested that, another officer should bo appointed to give assistance to the, present officer. The lxiard decided to consider tho suggestion at a later date, should unemployment become. more acute. It .was rciKt'rted that since the lati. meeting G1 applications had been received for employment, and positions had l)cen found for 56 -moil. There were 2G casrs of unemployment on the bnolis, among them being tlirco disabled men.

During recent years a practice has. grown up, itiiiou? at'number- of consignees of inward cargti, of suhdivid : ng their consignments into .several pnieels and of issuing su»ordevs therefor, thus turning the Harbour Board's stores front their proper . use .as transit shod* into so ninny distributing depots. Tills pnietico hag now grown to Mich an extern that, the legitimate work of receiving find delivering canro is greatly, hamper- , on, and tho. board, m the general in- : tercsts of : the shipping and mercantile commmuty; has been compelled to de- ; cule on refusing to permit this practice ' to.continue.. On November U the board therefore pawd the following resolution 'That on 'and after March 1, 1921 j no sub-order "for • inward mc'ps- I fating the spliilin* up of a hill <,f.Jad:n-> will.be recognised by ihe board, exevpi as provided for in by-law No. 251/' (.Note—By-law No. 20l deals with th<! delivery ,of agricultural. produce only.,

A Press j\fj?orialion messa«:i» from Christchurcli slates that'-J. C. Wilson, a tinsmith, married, died of injuries received in a collision between a motorcycle'lie was riding and a post at -Hedchfls.

Owing to the dentil of Deputv President J. .Liddle, .tlin.JPetoiiß. Ride Club will not liold its shoot at Trenllinm today.

The Tirnaru Harbour Board has (states ft Press Association message) decided to enter its'staff in the National "Provident Fund, and a' superannuation fund, Hie whole of the employees'approving. The Tiniaru Borough Council is a contributor an<l several dependants are now receiving .allowances.

The. Natives Association Band will play at Newtown Park to-morrow afternoon