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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 86, 12 April 1911, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL The undermentioned hours will be observed at the Telegraph OfHce on Good Friday and Easter Monday : —Good Friday, 9.30 to 10 a.m. and 5 to 5.30 p.m ; Easter Monday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and 7 p.m. to midnight. Thero will be the midnight cable service as usual. The mails which Mb Auckland for London via San Francisco, on the 11th March, per E.M.S. Maitai, arrived in London op the 11th '"asfc. Great success has attended the hatching out of the Atlantic salmon ova recently brought from England and Germany to Wellington. The ova vrss conveyed by soa, rail, and road to the Lake Te Anau hatcheries, and the mortality was a quite negligible quantity. The young fish ar© all well and full of promise for liberation when the right time comes. Legal argument in the caso, heard coma months ago, between George and Doughty and W. H. Nash, took 'place before Mr. Justice Cooper yesterday. Hia Honour had previously given, Iris judgment on tb.6 facts, which Concerned I dealings by Glanville Hunt, and the questions were as to who was to bear the loss. Decision was reserved. Eaters of pork .may derive some satisfaction from the fact that practically all carcases are now closely inspected beforo being allowed to go into human consumption. Pork .going into bacon factories is also inspected for disease, and rejected if unsuitable. Formerly there was no inspection of pork except for export. The local customer is now placed on the same footing with regard to New Zealand pork as to the consumer overseas. The manager of a large business concern in Christ-church complained to Tho Post's correspondent that although he ■vra-. advertising all over New Zealand and Australia he was still unable to obtain an adequate supply of girls for his factory. It was pointed out to him that girls will not go into domestic service, and that according to his statements they are now neglecting the factory, and he was asked where all the girls' are going to. "Bless you," he said, "they're all getting married. We have no fewer than eight who are leaving us at the present time_ in order to get married. The trouble is that it is the best who go that way — a fact, of course, for which we can blame no one, least of all the young men." Reports have come from the Manapouri district to the effect that paradise I ducks are exceptionally plentiful there this year, and that they have become a pest to landowners (states the Southland Times). It is said that flocks of these ducks are not uncommon, and thao their depredations among the swede turnips are causing serious loss in view of the fact that winter feed for stock this year is scarce. Landowners are threatening, if I the legal protection against shooting is not taken off the ducks for a short season, to lay poison for them. The Acclimatisation Society has already urged the Minister to declare a shooting season for a month for paradise ducks, and it is doing all in its power to impress tho gravity of the situation on the responsible officials. As these dncks readily take poisoned grain, tho reuult of farmers laying poison would be the decimation, if not almost the extermination, of paradis6 ducks. The proceedings of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid iJoard yesterday were of a somewhat inharmonious character. The meeting had been fixed for the transaction of special business, but on the order paper had been put the item "general," under which was a report from tho Lighting Committee, recommending that all the institutions of the boaa-d be lighted by electricity, and a notice of motion by Air. A. H. Hindmarek "that the Lighting Committee bo discharged ; that the hospital bo lighted by means of electricity, and that the w&rk to effect it be put in hand at once." The question al once arose as to whether at a. special meeting any busi ness could be taken except that for which ihe meting had been specifically fixed. The opponents of lighting by gas contended that the extra business could not, be taken ; those who favoured electricity were equally certain, that it could. ' Tho chairman first ruled that the extra business could not be taken, but later said he would leave it to the members themselves to say whether they would deal with it. After some argument the Rev. H. Van Staveren moved : "That this board do now adjoivrn,"' which, on a division, wae carried by ten votes to seven. Woollen shirt blouses, yoke at back and fullness gathered_ into shoulders 5 yoke in different designs and coloured stripe effects, at 8s lid each. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd.— Advfc.