NEWS OF THE DAY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 169, 19 July 1941, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

||| Heavy Frosts at Cambridge if Very heavy frosts have been exHi perienced in Cambridge all this jf| week, the most severe registering 16 }|| degrees, writes a correspondent. Old fij residents consider the conditions || have been the most severe for seveli | ral years. || Loss of Radium Needle Lp A radium needle belonging to the fj| Christchurch Hospital has been lost Wj by the staff of the Timaru Hospital. 11l The needle was on loan, and all ii|| efforts to trace it have been unsuccessful. It was valued at £8. It was II presumed that it had got mixed with li| some dressings and had gone down || a sewer. || Island Air Service I The question of having Fiji linked II up with the Pan-American air ser- || vice between Auckland and San If Francisco was mentioned by Sir II Harry Luke, High Commissioner for || the Western Pacific, in the course of |s a visit to Noumea. It was proposed, !| he said, to have an air line between |/ Suva and Noumea, which was awaitf J ing the completion of a refuelling |= barge now being built by the Suva ■0 Public Works Department. This jj| service was expected to start at the j | beginning of September, and a jjS British air service would use the Jjfj same airport eventually. I! Pedestrian Crossing Rights ll judicial ruling that a pedestrian Is who steps on to a marked street i crossing thereby engages it, and all motor traffic must give him right of way was enunciated by Mr. Justice 11 Callan in the course of a case in the ;| Supreme Court yesterday. That, he 11 said, was the clear meaning of subj| section 7 of No. 14 of the Traffic jl Regulations, 1936. "This is what the l| regulation says," continued his iyj Honor. "'Every driver of a motor vehicle shall yield the right of way If to a pedestrian engaged in crossing , the roadway within any authorised J pedestrian crossing upon the half of \i\ the roadway over which such vehicle I 1S .lawfully entitled to travel, and ] when approaching such crossing the !f driver shall reduce his speed so as jl be able to stop before reaching a crossing if necessary.'" His I Honor directed that the only thing jv nec essary" could mean was that \£* . e motorist must stop before reach>l lilf croS r Sins in " ldcr to v ieid it S|ag«i inuuSg 1 " "

Coastal Town's Complaint Complaint is being made by the business people of Tauranga, whose application to the Dominion lighting s controller to have lighting in shop 3 windows until 8 p.m. on Fridays was i refused, that the lighting restric--3 tions in the town are more severe !- than in other towns. Army Defaulters B Second notices to report at the t Auckland Drill Hall for entry to . Expeditionary Force camps led to only one of a total of 36 men putting "in an appearance yesterday. The majority of the defaulters are conscientious objectors whose appeals against service were dismissed by the Armed Forces Appeal Board. Their names will now be sent to ■ 4 r i Tl y Headquarters for gazetting as » defaulters. \ Colours Dedicated A simple but impressive ceref mony took place at the naval base j this afternoon, when the colours of . the Calliope Sea Sccut troop were \ dedicated. The troop was formed at! i the end of 1930, anu the :;ixty mem- > bers have performed useful services ! at regattas and other harbour l l events. The parade was inspected I ! by Captain E. Rotherham, officer! commanding H.M.S. Philomel and the naval base, and the colours, a Union Jack and a Luvgoc. wpie dedicated by the Rev. G. T. Robson, M.C., 0.8. E., chaplain to the New ■ Zealand Naval !• orces. High Barometer There are high recordings of barometric pressure in Auckland at the present time. During the clear, frosty days which have been prevailing the barometer readings have' climbed steadily from 30.00 in at mid- ! night on Sunday to 30.59 in at midnight last night, and 30.70 in at 9 o'clock this morning. On May 18, 1939, 30.62 in was recorded in Auckland, but only on a few days in June July and August of last year did the readings approach or pass the 30.50 : mark. There was a particularly , high recording of 30.78 in on July 10, 1924, while the lowest reading in ■ Auckland was 28.73 in in July, 1867. , Similarly in Hamilton the barometer lias been unusually high. Yesterday i the_ reading \vas 30.65 in. whereas 30.:>0in is considered a high reading ; for Hamilton. 4^