GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 299, 10 May 1913, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

| A PLUCKY RESCUE. By Telegraph—Press Association. i Oiristcluirch, jMay 9. * As the Maori was leaving Lyttelton I last night, a young woman handing an unbrella to her sister on the steamer, fell into the harbour. Mr. Erwin, the ) third officer, promptly jumped in and ] held her up until assistance came, and I both were rescued. As the steamer's propellers were working, ; Mr. Erwin's . effort was made move hazardous. v AUCKLAND BUTTER. i Auckland, 'Friday. j The butter export from the Auckfand | province for the season now ending II totals 331,071 boxes, as compared with 287,900 boxes last year, ani. increase of 15 per cent. The present season has j been a record " 'anil' the output I would have been far greater but for > the unusually dry spell recently experienced. •' ! ' A VACANT POSITION. Wellington, Friday. Applications are invited in the Gazette . for the position of Inspector in the Public Service Commissioner's office. The position is open to officers'''in 0 the public service, applications 'closing' June 30. ) The salary is to be £SOO yearly. The qualifications are special knowledge and experience and capacity : for systematising administrative ■■ methods ' and details. A thorough Tindwle'dge of accountancy is required, and the new officer must be well informed in matters affecting costing as applied to undertakings or works, and be experij enced in modern stores' arrangements. J A thorough knowledge of modern office j methods is essential.

NAPIER HARBOUR. ' Napier j Friday. Mr. A. E. Jull was re-elected chairman of the Harbour Board yesterday. The board resolved to proceed with the' Bill empowering them to' go to the ratepayers for a loan of £300,000 to carry out Messrs. C'ullen and Keele's inner harbour seheme. THE PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE. Wellington, May 9. The Wellington Trades and Labour Council passed a series of resolutions expressing the opinion that the setting up of a Commission of Inquiry was in itself a covert attack on the Public Trust Office, and deprecating the action of the legal profession in attacking the office for the purpose of withdrawing from the office legal work that used to be done for clients of the Public Trust Office by the legal staff.