NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 117, 20 May 1942, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Short Tram Section

Throe months after a large deputation had waited on the City Council, residents of Glenmore Street and vicinity have received a further unfavourable reply to their request that the first tramway section from the Government Buildings should be extended to The Rigi. Keen disappointment and disapproval of the council's decision was expressed in a resolution passed at a meeting held on Monday evening. It was considered that the council's reply evaded the issue raised by the deputation that transport should operate in the interest and for the benefit of all the people on an equitable basis, such as obtains with other city trading departments (milk and electricity). In view of the present need for citizens to give undivided attention to matters of national importance, the meeting decided to defer further representations until times again become normal. Destruction of Vermin. Owing to the cancellation of the shooting season this year, the Vermin Control Board's revenue is automatically cut o(T, states the annual report of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. During the year ended March 31 last, 20,935 hawks. 13,343 hedgehogs, and 3897 ferrets, polecats, stoats, and weasels, upon which £1847 was paid in bonuses by the board, were destroyed in the North Island. The Wellington society's contribution to the fund at March 31 was £271, while £523 was expended in its district on the destruction of 4700 hawks, 827 ferrets, stoats, and weasels, and 3529 hedgehogs. The society has been reimbursed by the board with the balance of £252. Soldiers' Choir. The formation of a soldiers' choir in Wellington is being brought about through the initiative of Corporals W. D. Gorman and D. P. Conner and Lance-Corporal B. Withers, and the first practice will be held next Monday evening at St. Peter's Church, when it is expected that those already interested will be joined by many others as prospective members. The aim is to have a choir of about ,-40 voices, and it will have as organistchoirmaster Lance-" "poial Withers, who for some time was organist at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Wellington. One of the song leaders will be Private M. B, Rossiter, a well-known bassbaritone. Soldiers' song services are to be held, the first of these being set down for St, Peter's Church on Sunday, June 14.