Interprovincial

New Zealand Tablet, 24 August 1911, Page 1635

Interprovincial

Some light was thrown on the dairy industry by Mr. Okey, a Taranaki member, in Parliament last week. He stated that the gross* return from each cow averaged about £lO a year. Of this amount, about £7 would be absorbed in expenses of production, leaving a sum of £3 per cow to the farmer as profit, and to reimburse him for the risks incidental to his pursuit.

A member of Parliament who cannot find his district is surely entitled to sympathy. This is the unhappy position of Mr. Wilford, the member for Hutt. He notified the Government in Parliament on Friday that he would ask them to prepare a map of Hutt, showing the new electoral district. It seems, he states, almost impossible to locate it from plans or from the description in the Gazette . It was stated that the district was bounded on the west by the Napier-Wel-lington railway; also that it included the boroughs of Petone and Lower Hutt. As the borough of Petone extended beyond the Napier-Wellington railway, it was difficult to find the district.

No one in this portion of the Dominion (telegraphs the Greymouth correspondent of the Otago Daily Times) can remember a sitting of the Magistrate’s Court being held under such extraordinary circumstances as was the case on Monday. The contractors for the removal of the old building had begun work early in the morning, and had their tackle in order by 10.30 a.m. ' The entire structure had been shifted along the beams a : distance of 2ft Gin, and despite the dignity of the court being considerably shaken by the moving structure, the ruthless contractors worked away, the court becoming a going concern,’ as the auctioneers say. During the sitting the court, with counsel and habitues, of whom there, were a good many, was shifted Bft. Everyone engaged in business there was also subjected to extreme cold, as all the chimneys had been razed to the ground, and, though provision had been made for gas heaters in the building, no connection could be made, and one and all were glad to hurry through the business and resort to more congenial quarters.

The wireless apparatus on the Maitai, which arrived at Wellington on Thursday of last week (says the Otago Daily Times), was in frequent use on the run over from San Francisco. Communication was maintained with that port until the steamer was 1200 miles on her journey to Wellington. The Aorangi, which was bound from Auckland to San Francisco, was picked up at a distance of 800 miles when she was getting into Papeete. Honolulu was heard working by the Matai when the vessel was no less than 2100 miles away from that port. The Marama was spoken about 200 miles the other side of the equator, while bound for Honolulu. Suva was also communicated with, and the night the Matai left Rarotonga she got in touch with H.M.S, Challenger at a distance of 1700 miles, and gave the time of her anticipated arrival. The operator talked to the Ruahine for three or four days, but experienced great difficulty in picking up Wellington, when only a comparatively short distance away. This he, puts down to the bad and shut-in situation of the present temporary station at the General Post Office.

Sir James Carroll was tendered a complimentary social on Monday evening on the occasion of his fiftyfourth birthday. He was presented with an address, accompanied by 4675 signatures, (this number will be made rip to 7300 when completed). The function was non-political, and most enthusiastic. The maternal relatives of Sir James were much in evidence during the evening, and demonstrated their delight by rendering several old-time Native songs of joy and hakas. Messrs. B. Fletcher, H. S. Warded, and Dr. Cahill made eulogistic references to Sir James Carroll’s past. Sir James Carroll, in responding, said words failed to described what he felt on receiving such expressions of goodwill on his birthday. It was very hard to find words to describe one’s feelings and sentiments on such an occasion. It required all the fortitude in his possession to refrain from exhibiting weakness whilst listening to the expressions of goodwill which he had heard

from his. friends that night. He hall lived some time in the world of politics, and had graduated until he found himself blushing under the odds.. He first represented the. Maori race in Parliament, and later was the elect of the Europeans. Pie had tried to live in a sphere of . usefulness and to do his best for Maori and pakeha, and for the great and illustrious Empire. He had tried in his own humble' way to live a life of usefulness, and nothing gave him greater satisfaction than to help the poor and needy. a work of love. A public man was always prepared to commit many self-sacrifices. He concluded by saying: ‘I will never forfeit your esteem and regard.'