DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1925, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

BV TELEGBAPH PRESS ASSN., COPYRIQHT. CITY OF AUCKLAND. BUILDINC OPERATIONS. — I AUCKLAND, Match 10. Over .£2.000,000 has been spent on ' now buildings and extensions in Auckhind during the financial year ending , this month, in addition to construction , work in hand, and that for which per- . mils have been issued so far this month , represent a declared value of nearly Three-fourths of the total building construction in Greater Auckland is , actually confined to the city area Ibe cite not onlv extends steadily, but is be in" more substantially rebuilt It is estimated, officially, that the value of permits for new dwellings and commercial premises in the metropolitan area this municipal year will exceed £l,50.000 and actual register of the business to date makes that estimate almost assured. , - Last municipal year the value of building permits issued by the «ty reached the record sum of £1 .UM ,-6! . as compared with £1,180,730 in 1923 The outstanding feature of city budding construction during tlm municipal vear was the decrease in the numbei of new buildings. Permits for the erection of dwellings in the city since last Atarch total only 4(3, as compaieil with 607 for 1923-1924. It is expected that the aggregate by the end of till* month, will roach 500. fruit cargoes. WELLINGTON, March 10. A new scheme for londinp fruit direct into liners will be tried out at Nelson to-morrow for the first tunc. Hitherto all Nelson fruit for the London market has been shipped to At ellinglon and transferred to Home boats here, a practice' which necessitated much handling. The Shaw Savill steamer AYaimana. sailed lor Nelson yesterday, and "ill load fruit there under the new Scheme to-day. Ihe fruit will be taken out, in scows to the steamer, which will lie about three miles off shore. In all some 11,0.9 cases will he loaded. The work is expected to be completed by to-mni'row d favourable weather conditions arc met with. The AYaimana is a full ship except for the Nelson fruit. AVhen this has been taken aboard the steamer will return to Wellington for her papers and sail for London oil Friday mi-oiling. , Air AY. T. Goodwin. Assistant-Director of the Horticultural Division, left by the AYaimana yesterday to superintend loading operations under the new . scheme. Captain Clmdleigh, marine , superintendent for the Shaw, Savdl and 4 Albion Company, also made the trip.

ALIEN iaiaiigration. AUCKLAND, March 10. Aliens appear to he coming to New Zealand in steadilv increasing numbers, and, yesterday, a total of 40 of them landed from the Alaiama. Alost ol the intercolonial boats trading bctweei Sydney and Auckland bring their quotr of people from Southern Europe. Those who landed from Ihe Afaraimi yesterday wore mostly Dalmatians, the designation on the passenger list being applied to 29 persons. There were nls: two .Itigo-Slavs and six Italians, whili three Chinese were on (lie ship.

AY.E.A. aioykment. PROGRESS IN AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, Afareh 8. The great growth ill adult- education activities undertaken by the Workers’ Educational Association in Auckland has made necessary the appointment of Air N. M. Richmond. ALA., to the position of assistant tutor and organiser for Auckland district, lliic years ago. the present director of tutorial classes, Air L. A. Alandcr, ALA., wa.s brought from Adelaide to t-ik charge cf the tutorial departments and organising work. The demand for clas-'es has since increased so greatly that a special committee was asked to draw up conditions for the appointment of another full-time tutor who should coniine his work especially to the c "ganising and directing of classes in the suburbs and country districts. Ah- Richmond has been chu-en for this p- dtion. lie has a splendid reionl. From 1911 to 1911 he attended Nelson College. During the war he saw fifteen m-eutlis’ active service. He graduated at Canterbury l Diversity College in 1917-13 with a senior ,scholarship in applied mathematics. Air Richmond was selected as Rhodes scholarship ill Zealand, and from 1920 to 1923 was at Oxford, where he took honours in modern history. He devoted special wenk to the subject of the relations of capital a,nil labour. After his return to New Zealand he devoted himself to the theory of education and the principles of teaching, and was : master at Christ’s College, Christchurch, during 1910 and 1917. He was captain of the Canterbury College Rugby fifteen, and did a. very great deal for college football hv his efforts. He j s a keen debater and fond of literature and music, and comes with the reputation of being a, brilliant man inspired by the highest ideals of service and possessing qualities calculated to win the confidence and respect of Workers’ Educational Association students.