LOCAL AND GENERAL
Praying and Gambling. “In one breath our leaders are very rightly calling us as a nation to prayer and in the next they are giving their support to mad scenes of gambling, turning our streets into the gambling saloons of Monte Carlo —but eVen today a faithful remnant remains and can do much,” said the Rev C. C. Hoskin, at the lunch-hour intercessory service in the Town Hall, Wellington, yesterday. Unfortunately, our prayers were not as persistent as they ought to be, lie added, and there was not sufficient faith in God. “One Sunday we hold a united prayer meeting and our churches, for once in a while, are packed to the doors; and the next Sunday we see a great laughing throng packing special trains to be conveyed to a great garden party in Trentham— God and prayer all forgotten.”
Trampers Missing. Two of the four Wellington youths reported overdue from a weekend expedition into the Orongorongo Range, Bruce and Lawrence Neilson, brothers, 10A Glamis Avenue, Miramar, were brought back to Wellington yesterday afternoon. The two still missing are Warren Hobbs, aged about 18 years, of the Post and Telegraph Department, and Maurice Forster. The party went into the ranges last Thursday. Having interviewed the Neilsons on their return, the secretary of the Tarawa Tramping Club, Mr C. Stubley, said last night that it was apparent that Hobbs and Forster, on parting from the Neilsons on Monday, had followed the Turere River. If Hobbs and Forster were not back by midday today, Mr Stubley continued, search parties comprising members of all tramping clubs about Wellington would be sent i out. Till then, fears need not be held for their safety.
Emergency Hospital. Cabinet has approved the erection and equipping of an emergency convalescent soldiers’ hospital in Rotorua. This announcement was made in an interview last evening by the Minister of Health, Mr Nordmeyer, who said that the building would accommodate 150 soldiers. It was to be erected immediately in light materials. State Insurance., While agreeing with the principle of State insurance, the New Zealand Labour Party, at its annual conference in Wellington yesterday, decided that no immediate action should be taken on a suggestion that the Government shpuld take over all insurance companies. Proposals that a commission should be appointed to inquire into the activities of insurance companies and that fire insurance companies should be compelled to pay the full amount of insurance were referred to the Government for consideration, as also was a proposal for control of industrial insurance policies.
Electricity Tariffs Reduced. Substantial reductions in electricity charges to both domestic and commercial consumers, estimated to represent a concession of approximately £27,50(1 a year, were made by the Wellington City Council last night, to take effect from July 1. The reduction, said the Mayor, Mr Hislop, would make Wellington easily the cheapest sei lei: of electricity for domestic purposes in the Dominion and in Australia. Under the present domestic tariff a certain number of units, according to the room rating, are charged at 8d gross, and 4d net; and the balance are charged at jd. The same number of units will in future be charged at. Gd gross and 3d nett. The present unit commercial lighting tariff is: (100 units a month at 3.‘,d, 1000 2d, balance lid. The now tariff will be: 400 units a month at 3d, 720 2d, balance lAd,
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