General News.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19610, 4 May 1929, Page 14

General News.

The auction advertisements of Dalgety and Co., Ltd., McKenzie and Willis, L. P. Devlin, Pyne, Gould, Guinness, Ltd., Parris and McMillan, H. B. Sorensen, N.Z. Farmers' Cooperative Association, Ltd., Ford and Hadfield, Ltd., and H. C. Smith appear on page 23 of this issue. The Domains Board has decided to make a tour of inspection of the gardens and parks on Saturday the 11th inst., starting from the Curators house at 2.30 p.m. In order that Technical College students might not he so much disturbed by passing traffic the Col'ege authorities asked the C.A.A. to erect warning signs near the College. This has been done, one being put in Barbadoes street and the other in Moorhouse avenue. U motorists care to observe them they will notice thereon the advice "Dnvo quietly." ' . - While engaged in shunting operations! at Kangiora yesterday afternoon, Charles Hector Hopkins was knocked down by a truck and sustained a broken leg and injuries to a shoulder.' Fortunately he had the presence of mind to lie still between the rails, otherwise his injuries would have been more extensive, as several trucks passed over him. He was taken to the Christehurch Hospital by the Parnassus express train.

The order in which the work of reconstructing Moorhouse avenue will be done will be a reversal of the order which obtained in connexion with the reconstruction of a portion of Colombo street. In that case the Tramway Board's track renewal work was done first. In the case of Moorhouse avenue the City Council's part of the work will be done first. It is hoped to make a start with the work towards the end of next week.

According to Mr A. K Inder the Heathcote County Inspector, between 50 and 60 unemployed men are to be sturted on Tuesday on the work ot widening and metalling the upper portion of the Dyer's Pass road, between Victoria Park and "The Kiwi." Most of the men for this work have been selected, unemployed resident in the county are being taken on first. In the Hilhborouedi riding ten men are at work widening roads on Huntsbury Hill and smaller road jobs. Traflßc is still heavy on the Canterbury railways, though the season is approaching when it usually begins to decline. Big con ignments of coal are coming from the West Coast, some of this going as far south as Dunedin to supply the shortage in steam coal, wh ch the Australian strike brought about. Three special trains were requisitioned yesterday to load frozen mutton into the Port Napier, Port Hunter, and Rangitiki. They ran from Fairfield, Islington, and Belfast. Much grain is still being carried, particularly from the wheat-growing areas, and the traffic in stock is holding well. During a visit to the Far North, Mr David H. Graham, research officer of the Mosquito Research Committee, Auckland Museum, continued his investigations to find out whether or not disease-carrying mosquitoes existed. According to the "iSorthlander," he has not located any such carriers. The mosquitoes he had found were not of the disease-carrying types, but at the same time they were detrimental to stock. They were a great pest among cattle, and in a dairying district that was a serious matter. The problem or eliminating this insect altogether was a difficult one. At Te Kao, however, it was being solved automatically, by drainage and cultivation. Watching the removal of one of the old wooden telegraph poles from the pavement at the foot of Queen street (says the Auckland "Star") was Jim Macnamara, an old-time bushman, who was a member of the gang which felled the tree in a Waikato forest more than 40 years ago "Well do I remember it," he said. "It was a big totara, and we cut it at Te Waoutu, near Oxford, on the old Rotorua line. We felled four big trees in one day—and it was a Sunday, too! This tree was what "we call a £22 pile, and the others were nearlv as big." Mr Macnamara recalled that his companions in the bush in those far-off days were Dan McLeod and Harry and Walter Dyer—all well-known Auckland identities.

In making an appeal for efficiency auditing in State and public body enterprises. Professor B. E. Murphy, in a lecture at Victoria College put forward the proposed railway line from Napier to Gisborne. The Government, he said, would construct the line out of the public purse. Then some one would form Rood roads to take the business awav from the railwav. The next move would be that a harbour board would borrow a million pounds or so to take the business away from both road and railway. Coming nearer to Wellington. Professor Mnrphv instanced the case of the Eastbourne Borough Council, which had ourohased a fleet of ferry boat*, and had then Acquired motorbuses to take the business away from their steamers.

The work of erecting the new band rotunda presented to the City by Mr T. J. Edmonds is to be put in hand a week or so hence. Of the men on the Labour Department's list of unemployed six were placed in work on the wharves yesterday. The main highway between Westport and lnangahua will be closed from ' a.m. to 4 p.m. to-morrow, according to advice received by the Canterbury Automobile Association. So far shooting on Lake Ellesmere has not driven the usual flocks of ducks to sanctuary on Lake Victoria in Haglev Park and the Avon, where they take refuge during the season. Usually the ducks make a move for safety as soon as the season opens. The persistence of the Canterbury Automobile Association in asking for a loading bank at Arthur's Pass has been rewarded, for the Railway Department now intends to put pne there for the convenience of motorists. The work is being done at once. The Wellington Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association has attained a membership of over 1000. The membership in 1891 was 75; in 1902, 315; in 1911, 358; in 1919, 56-5; in 1923, 859; and in 1928, 1096. The Association has decided to erect a larger club-house. "It would appear that the business community has been unable to absorb the great addition to office premises together with those already existing, showing that the supply exceeds the demand." remarked the chairman (Mr W. H. P. Barber) at the annual meeting of the Wellington Deposit, Mortgage, and Building Association, Ltd. The concrete paving of that portion of the South road between Sockburn and Templeton was completed two weeks ago, and the contractors, Messrs P. Graham and Sons, expect that the whole stretch, four miles, will be open for traffic next Saturday. The work has been completed two months ahead of contract time. There is likely to be a slight delay in the completion of the repairs to the reading room of the Christchurch Public Library. Instead of opening again on Monday it will be a few days longer before the room is ready for use. The new floor has already been laid, the walls cleaned, and men have begun varnishing the reading stands. Of the 1857 applications received by the Drainage Board for advances to meet the cost of house connexions, 1744 have been granted, the total advanced being £68,428. The Board has an application before the Local Government Loans Board for authority to raise an additional £SOOO for this purpose.

From May 9th till May 18th inclusive, all classes of passengers will be able to travel at excursion rates on the railways. The tickets issued will be available till June 15th. Formerly this concession was confined- to school and college pupils who had to obtain certificates from their teachers, but it has now been made universal. Grain growers.—Threshing costs can be reduced considerably by the introduction of the "Red River" Special Thresher The machine has earned the name of the finest, fastest, cleanest thresher in U.S.A Has features such as roller bearings on all spindles, double belts, fibre pullevs, etc., throughout, which places it in a class by itself for value We have still a machine available for immediate delivery. Andrews and Beaven, Christchurch. —2 Nail complaints successfully treated. M. Houston (qualified by exam., London), Hand and Foot Specialist, Cathedral Chambers (over Beresford>. 'Phone 8678 D. ' —-5 Farmers ask for trial of the heavy Oliver Tractor Plough. Automatic lift, chilled steel mouldboards; agents Aspin wall Potato Diggers. T. and S. Morrih and Fenwick, Ltd.,. 377 Moorhpuse avenue, ' —6 "P. and D,D." These letters on any implements are the guarantee pf the best there is in all tillage, cultivating, and seed implements. That the Farmers of Canterbury endorse that opinion can readily lje gathered from a perusal of the lists of clearing sales Notwithstanding the intense competition from every quarter of the Globe backed by scores of Canvassers -it will be seen that about one-third of the existing lines of the above b?ar oni initials. P. and D. Duncan, T<itr.it ed, 196 Tuam street Christehnnh and Ashhurton. —6

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