OUT AND ABOUT

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 14254, 31 December 1946, Page 2

OUT AND ABOUT

Cargo From Auckland

Arriving at Tauranga at 9 a.m. on Sunday, the coastal vessel; Kapili, brought 104 tons of general cargo to this port. 'The vessel left on her return to Auckland at 4 p.m. yesterday with 27 tons in her holds. Busy Tauranga Tauranga presented an unusually busy appearance yesterday. Not only was the town congested with visitors and cars whose number plates indicated that they were a long way from home, but also many Bay of Plenty people were observed making purchases of belated presents, and housewives were also actively replenishing larders after the weekend. Apparently the closing of the shops last Friday night caught many people unawares.

Unusual “Diplomas”

For presentation at the recent graduation ceremony at the new Library school in Wellington thirty diplomat were sent to Auckland for signature, but they had not been returned to Wellington on the morning of the graduation. A number of blank rolls of paper, neatly tied with ribbon, were hastily prepared to meet the emergency, but, to the staff's relief, a package was received from Auckland. When it was opened, however,' it was found to contain thirty application forms for admission to' mental hospitals-—a mistake at the Auckland end. The diplomas later arrived just in time for the ceremony.

Road Toll In U.S.A.

“Great concern at the high death rate' from motor accidents is being expressed in the United States, and with some reason, too,” said Mr W. H. Kindle, president of Associated Chambers of Commerce, Wellington, who has just returned from a visit. It was hoped that this year the fatalities would be under the average, but up to the end of October they numbered 38,000; and at that point were 4000 over the average, he said. There was tremendous congestion in the cities, with cars four abreast. “As soon as the green light appears, away they flash and the' pedestrian often has to jump for it. Believe me, I watched my step crossing an intersection.”

Life Of A Hospital

The opinion of two world-distin-guished medical men who were recently in Christchurch on the proposal to spend ‘‘a million or two” on a new hospital for Christchurch was reported by Mr F. S. Wilding to the Christchurch City Council. The visitors, he said, had been Sir William Fletcher Shaw and Professor W. W. Greulich. Sir William Fletcher Shaw had said that he was in favour of ‘‘putting a match to a hospital once it was 20 years old,” and Professor Greulich had said that in the United States hospitals were built of special materials which would last only 20 years. Very fine architecture was all very well, said Mr Wilding, but if a hospital was only to last so long, did it not seem that a building would need to be replaced soon after it was built