CABINET DECISIONS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 343, 8 March 1911, Page 5

CABINET DECISIONS.

At a long sitting of Cabinet on Saturday the following decisions were arrived at: — To subsidise local authorities £1 for £1 up to £2GO upon amounts expended for Coronation celebrations. To offer a bonus of £12,000 for an improved method of treating New Zealand hemp. To send a New Zealand rifle team to Bisley next year. To remve the headquarters of the Wellington military district to Palmers ton North. To appoint Messrs Reid, M.P., Ronayne, W. Evans, J. Coom and Stallworthy, M.P., as a Royal Commission to decide upon the future route of the North Auckland railway. To appoint Messrs Reed (Inspector of Mines), Cochrane, Grace, Dixon. Fulton and Beits, a Royal Commission to inquire into and report upon the sanitation and ventilation of coal mines. That the electoral rolls be printed by local printers, instead of by the Government printing office, on a scale of prices approved by the Master Printers' Association. To appoint Captain Renaut, of the Union Company's steamer Kaiapoi, assistant superintendent of marine at Auckland. Plans and specifications were approved for the erection of a new Public Trust office at Auckland on a site recently obtained by the Government. Tenders are to be invited immediately for a handsome building with stone front. £SOO was authorised to assist in conveying water to the Tepo district, twelve miles from Rotorua. In this district many cattle recently died for scarcity of water. The erection of a new post office and additions to baih houses at Rotorua were also authorised. The netting of fish at Rotorua will be discontinued after 31st March.