WELLINGTON SPECIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 278, 3 December 1901, Page 2

WELLINGTON SPECIAL.

BOARD OP PLUMBERS,

i Special to Times.) Wellington, last night. A movement is afoot to establish a registered Board of one of the chief functions of which w be to make it compulsory that ever- , plumber shall qualify himself bv < .in non before bem S permitted to t rtr.ke any work w f,? naec 'tion with mita.y plumbing. Wellington already _ jssc-.-scs something j " le Sol 't, werk -i by an arrangement between tue corporation and the technical school, but the new scheme is to apply to the whole colony. A conference of master plumbers for consideration of the matter tsto be held in Dunedin before the end of the year, A VACANT POSITION.

No indication has as yet been given as to who is to receive the vacant position of Under-Secretary of Crown Lands. The chances of Mr Mueller, the present Commissioner of Lands at Auckland, are considered to be good, but- on the other hand Mr Huntly LUiott, now Under-Secretary of Mines, may return to his old position. He and the late Minister for Lands did not hit it particularly well, and in the end he was transferred to the Mines Department.

THE SANATORIUM,

I hear privately that owing to the present overwork put upon the interior staff at Rotorua Sanatorium, it is proposed to appoint a nurse to assist the doctor and matron, who hitherto have undertaken solely the nursing of patients. Other important changes connected with the working of the institution arc in contemplation. OBITUARY. The wife of Mr A. Majindee, President of the New Zealand Counties Association, lied to-day, at the age of 64. VALUABLE LAND.

The Commercial Union Assurance Company, which contemplates the extension of its headquarter buildings in Wellington, is understood to have offered Tiff,ooo for the site adjoining its present office in Lambton Quay, owned by the Manchester Union of Oddfellows. This pans out at a handsome figure, calculated on per foot value.