MEETING OF CABINET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10133, 11 January 1911, Page 5

MEETING OF CABINET.

fc>OME IMPORTANT. DECISIONS

Designs for parliament ''■■ BUILDINGS. '■•- J \

By Telegraph—Press-Assqciatiori

WELLLNviTON, Last Night,

At a Cabinet meeting to-day,; it was decided to invite competitive; designs ■', frbm''.New.',;,Zealand /architects for- the new Parliament Buildings, the prizes to be £IOOO for first prize,' £SOO for second,; £3OO for third, and. £2OO for fourth. The designs are to be in by the end of July-,': . ::,. '■'•• : Applications will be invited for the position of Director of Geological Surveys, and Mining ■ reiicTefe'ctvyiicaiit by the resignation of Dr Bell.""-'■-..-- : -V'- v

Ci\biiu>t? decided to authorise lE§ Commandant of the Forces to Select in the Old Country an Army Service Corps officer for service in New Zealand..: ~.'':■, ■:-■''•' ■.''.'..' '. ■' •';■•

..■'■•"Mi* Buckley, a mechanician in thq /P^s^?a;nd ? is ■to; be sent to America -'.'Land: ; England ; to examine- modern systems of ,t<pe-' iphone' construction and: ihpp&nitus,vinj v;iew;.vy)r\ jebntem;plated .by> the Postmaster-General.•'•/• In conseqiience of the drought in the Oamaru district, Cabinet decided to offer free railage of stock from dry localities to places where food is plentiful. . Cabinet appointed Justice Sim permanently to the Supreme Court Bench. His duties will, as in the past, be piimarily as President of the Arbitration Court, jbut he will act as a Supreme Court Judge when not engaged on industrial arbitration work.