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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1913, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL Home savings banke, email and nuti-itantifclly-ffltulfe bteel bo*@«, were ftrfit issued in Wellington lh November, 1903, and up to the present time over fouf thousand have been taken up by depositors residing in tho city and in a number of tlie principal country offices throughout the Welling' ton Postal district to which supplier haV6 been Bent. The boxes are issued to depoei tow applying for them on paymeni of ft registration fee oi one shilling, which is retained by the Poet Office, and while the box ie in use the depoeU tor* account 1b charged with 4 further fetim of two shilling, which debit ie .released upon the box being returned in good Condition. ' I! ihe account is closed without) the box being handed in, or if the box k returned in a damaged cUte, the two «hilling« will be collected and retained. When a box i& brought to the Savings Bank It ia opened by the clerk ahd the Oofttehte counted in the presence of tjie depositor, who is permitted to check' the amount should he wish to do so. Reliable information in not obtainable as to how often the boxe* are presented for the purpose of being opehsd &nd the coHtente placed to credit of Savings Bank Account, but it is reported tfittt fidine are presented iveekly or monthly. The home saving* bank* are now obtainable &t every chief office, and at a number of the principal cub office*, throughout the Dominion. Before the end of last year the marine engineers of the Dominion approached the Union Steam Ship Company with a view to getting ah increase in wages, payment for overtime, and an improve^ menfc in working conditions, m as >to place them on «tt equal footing with those in the Commonwealth. A conference wab held, but no agreement was arrived at. Since then the Union Company has offered the engineers Blight concessions, which have been rejected oy the men, who, it is understood, are disinclined to accept anything less than the Australian conditions. The Wellington portion of the English 1 and Australian mails brought by the Mftheno, which arrived at Auckland at 3.30 p.m. yesterday* reached here by the Main Trtmk express this afternoon. A Commission to wquive into the fctibject of the afforestation of Crowh lands has been appointed. It consists of some heads of departments and gentlemeh interested ih -tho subject (not h\* . eluding members' oi Parliament), but the Prime Minister told a Posl ronorter that he could" n6t give the names, as all the gentlemen selected had riot yet notified their acceptance of tho offer. Consumers of municipal electricity will be glnti to le'arh that b metallic filament lamp is said to have been perfected in. the Old Country, which consumes about a third less electricity than the present lamps for the tsanie candle-pewei . It ie said also to be both cheaper and stronger. If the report proves to be well-founded, the city electric light department's Ve> . turns will be considerably reduced. The Federal-Shire steamer Tyrone, which arrived at Auckland on Friday, brought thirty-two third-class pasßen* gets, including several tradeittneu and young farmers'. • The 1 Morayehire arrived at the Northeth port a day later with the following passengers for the undermentioned ports : —Auckland 33, Welling* ton 23, Lyttelton 10, Dunedin 20, Blutf 4, Napier 3, Westport 2. Nelson 2, Oattiarii 2, and" Wangamii 1. Considerable interest was taken in the speed trial of the Wellington Motor Cycling Club at Mirafnar on Saturday. There were numerous entries rind the event Waft run off in heats (three in each). The final heat resulted thus»— Hat-bid Plimnier. 25 h.p. Douglas (100 yards), 1; P. England, 7 h.p. Indian [25 yards), 2: R. 8. Bender, 7 h'.p. Indian (scratch), 3. Time, 28sec. Kirkcaldie'ft summer sale will terminate at the end of this week, and for the remaining days of the sale extraordinary bargains are ottered.— Advt. Customs entries made and passed by expert men. Goods forwarded or sorted. Shipping and forwarding agents to all parta of the world. The Colonial Carry, ing Company, Ltd., 1O7«1O9» Custom* uoufig-qu&y,.— AdH.