General News.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18634, 8 March 1926, Page 8

General News.

The weather made a welcome return to summer conditions yesterday, when the temperature rose to 78.4 degrees. The beaches and other resorts attracted large crowds of visitors. The New Brighton Domain fete was continued on Saturday evening The attendance of the public was good and the several stalls and sideshows wero well patronised. The local school drum and fife band provided the musical portion of the programme for the evening. A public meeting is being held in the Bridge street Hall, South Brighton, on Tuesday evening in connexion with, a proposal to connect up Sumner with New Brighton by the building of a bridge across the Estuary, in the vicinity of Shng Roek. Mr Manson Stewart will be one of the speakers present. "There is a feeling among bowlers in the Dominion- that meetings like this one will go a long way in cementing the friendship of bowlers all over New Zealand," said Mr J. Keith, president of the Victoria Club, Wellington, at a luncheon given in its honour by the St. Albans Club on Saturday, when the annual bowling match was played. Mr A. B. Edwards, who for many years was a Magistrate in the Fiji Islands, gave a lecture to the boarders at St. Andrew's College on Saturday night, on the native life and the industries in the Islands. Some fine lantern slides, depicting cotton plantations, and Islanders at work and play, illustrated his interesting little talk, at the conclusion of which, one of the senior boys expressed appreciation to Mr Edwards, on behalf of his fellow class-mates. "There are some houses in Auckland with Maori names that would make their owners blush if they knew the meaning of them. jVVe should exercise great care and find out what the name means before we put a Maori designation on any of our streets in the borough," said Mr J. Hislop, when a change of street names at Devonport was being considered by the Borough Council. It had been proposed to change the name of a street to Ngataringa avenue, but owing to the doubt in the Council's mind as to its meaning and the difficulty young children would have in pronouncing the name, it was resolved to defer the adoption of the change until a less difficult name was suggested. Motorists themselves have resolved to take action against those of their number who indiscriminately strew the roads they traverse with discarded empty benzine tins. The North Island Motor Union decided to draw the attention of all motor associations to the disfigurement of the main and rural roads by the numbers of benzine tins left on the roadside, and to ask the associations to request their members to desist from the practice, as ptherwise legislation might be brought in making it ah offence. The oil companies are to be asked to attach a tag to each tin, urging that it should be disposed of in an out-of-the-way place where it would not be unsightly, and making suggestions as to the danger of throwing aside tins still containing a small quantity of benzine. "Anyway, the benzine tin question will settle itself soon," remarked one speaker, referring to the changeover from the tin to the bulk system of supply. "No," corrected another delegate, "the oil people are making more tins now than were ever made before."

The disfigurement! of the main and rural i'oads by the glaring advertisements with which some roads are plastered was the subject of a Wanganui remit passed at the half-yearly fleeting of the North Island Motor Union. Although it was realised that nothing could be done where advertising signs were erected on private property, it was decided to aßk all County Councils to instruct their engineers to have all advertising signs removed from bridges and roadsides wherever possible. Further, it was decided to request all motorists to patronise firmß which confine their advertising to the newspapers and other recognised advertising mediums, and who do not attempt to take advantage of Nature's handiwork by tho erection of glaring advertisements on spots of scenic beauty. Appreciation was expressed of the action of the British Imperial Oil Company, as intimated in a letter read at the meeting, in issuing instructions to its country representatives forbidding the further erection of signs on trees in such a way as to affect the scenic value of many of the main motoring areas, and instructing them to remove as promptly as possible all enamel signs, "We sincerely hope," the company-Tvrote, "that in the near future all signs giving rise to justifiable complaint will have been removed." Tramway track renewal work on Victoria street, though it has meant sometimes- fairly lengthy delays for trams to pass, lias contributed also some humorous incidents. A little after half-past six on Friday evening, an outward Papanui tram pulled up in Victoria square, the signal being against it. The passengers began to, think that they were in for a long wait, when the conductor appeared with a jug of tea. "The Board is going to supply us with tea while we are waiting," was. the idea that flashed through the minds of some passengers. However, the tea was for the motorman. Having refreshed themselves, the tram crew decided to go on for though the signal still showed angry red against them there was no incoming tram in sight, and the tram they had waited to cross was met at Bealey avenue. On Saturday, a little before one o'clock, a Leinster road car drew up in.Victoria square, the signal being against it. The motorman having ran on to a portion of the line that the incoming tram would have to pass over reversed the trolley pole, and got off the dangerous part of the track. When this operation was completed, and the trolley pole readjusted, the motorman saw the incoming tram bowling rherrily toward town on the newly laid north-eastern set of lines, and opened for traffic on Saturday morning. In response to cable for goods sold out, we have to-day received the special hosiery herewith mentioned:— Ladies' Seaml 4-1 Marl Hose, in light, dark brown, and 7 grev tonings, best English make, usual price 2s lid per pair, special sal© price Is 6d pair. Also Ladies' Celfect Silk Hose,- the very latest marl tones, in thrush, sunburn, nude, and golden-brown, usual price 5s lid,' sale price 2s lid pair. Armstrongs' Two Shops, Victoria square and High street. —6 When your grain crops are removed the best implement to put into the stubble is either the P. and D. Duncan disc cultivator, or hooked tined grubberboth machines are weed exterminators', and leave the soil ready for drilling green crops. With suitable power up to 12 acres a day can be cultivated. P, and D. Duncan, Ltd. Bos 124, Christcbnrch. —5 Electric ranges, grillers, irons, and other household electrical appliances will receive expert adustment and repairs by Wooff and Salvesen, Electrical Kepair Engineers, 609 Colombo street, or, ring 'Phone 4628 for prompt attention. —6 . Oliver Automatio Lift Tractor Ploughs, Swamp PloughSf Double-Gang Disc Harrows, Culti-Packers, Johnson Haresting Machinery. E. W. Dann, 377 Moorhouse avenue. (Late Reid and Gray), Distributing Agent for T. m 4 S* Morrin aad Faawick, —-5514