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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 185, 7 August 1925, Page 6

When an application from an omnibus proprietor was received asking permission to dispense with a rear door in hie bus, the City Traffic Inspector reported that the owner of .the omnibus had taken no steps to comply with the City Council's requirements, and the 'bus had been ordered off the service. His recommendation that the request bo declined was adopted by the council. In the case against Georgina Ellis Colnett (Mr. R. Singer) of allegedly using an instrument on a female, heard by Mr. Justice Reed in the Supreme Court yesterday, the jury returned after A retirement of four hours and intimated that they could not agree. His Honor discharged the jury, and ordered that a new trial should commence on Monday morning. Complaints made against the City Council's solid-tyred buses that they caused damage to macadam roads, as well as being uncomfortable, were mentioned by Mr. C. F. Bennett at the last meeting of the council. He asked that the buses be either refitted with pneumatic tyfes or withdrawn from service. The Tramways Committee reported last evening that experiments were being made, and the matter will be further reported upon later. A now order has Tjeen Issued, by the Arbitration Court modifying the order made last June with reference to the computation of journeymen for the purpose of ascertaining the proportion of apprentices that an employer may take on. The order lays it down that the computation is to be made on the average number of journeymen employed for not loss than two-thirds full'time each week for the year ended on March 31. The inclusion or otherwise of the employer as a journeyman is governed by decisions of each award. Returns accordingly are to be furnished to the District Registrar, and, if he deeme it necessary, he may require interim returns to be furnished. A conference of representatives of the Masonic Lodges of the New Zealand, English, Scottish, and Irish Constitutions throughout the Dominion was held at the Public Trust Office at Wellington yesterday, the Public Trustee presiding. The object of the conference was to discuss the various matters arising out of the charitable bequests under the will of the late Mr. Samuel Kirkpatrick, the well-known manufacturer, whose estate is being administered by the Public Trustee. By his will the testator directed that there bo established at hisr residential property in Nelson a Masonic institution or boarding establishment for the maintenance, boarding, and education of orphan daugMers of deceased Freemasons thrfiughout New Zealand. The estate is a valuable one, and the will directs the residue to be held for the purposes of the foregoing trust. The conference was not open to the Press or the public. A plan which provides for the formation and subsequent dedication of Hawea Road, which will be part of the estate at Point Chevalier on which five families have for some time been living in tents, was approved byithe City Council list evening. These people purchased sections on the estate, but the roads had not been dedica-ted and not being in possession of titles to their sections, the purchasers were unable to apply to the Government for, building loans. The plan of sub-dividing the estate having now been approved, the "tent-dwellers" should, before long, be -able to secure titles to their sections. The well-known first-class yacht Ilex has been purchased by Mr. H. R. Bloomfield, of St. Stephen's Avenue, Parneil Hex was built 25 years ago by Logan Brothers for the late Captain Stanhope, and was subsequently owned by the late Mr. J. C. Macky. For the past ten years she has been owned by Mr. YV. R Ingram, who sold her yesterday to Mr Bloomfield. * , Before the Gisborne Harbour Board's new dredge came from Auetralia certain parts of her machinery had to b 0 dismantled and were' sent here by another vessel. The Customs Department refused to remit duty, which was paid, but the board is now advised that they will be reimbursed.—(Press Association.) One day last week a little girl in Timaru ewallowed an ineh-and'-a-half nail. She was sent to the Public Hospital, where, with the aid of the X-rays, the nail waa discovered. The little girl Buffered no pain, and immediately the nail was recovered was able to run about as though nothing had happened to her. > Commencing next Monday a train will be run through from Matchett's Road (near Taneatua), to Tauranga and back for passenger service, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. - Special arrangements arc being made on the East Coast line to cater for passengers to Auckland during Fleet -week*