General News.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19647, 17 June 1929, Page 8

General News.

i We have received the sum of £3 3s from Miss Ada Bowlcer for the Mayor's Coal and Blanket Fund. Traffic ii'om the West Coast was very heavy on Friday and Saturday, thanks to "the fillip given to the coal trade by the Australian strike. The total tonnage on Fridav was 2500 tons and on Saturday 1250 tons. An inspection of the flood protection works in hand was made by the members of the Waimakariri River Trust I last week. The tour' included visits |to tlie approach to the new bridge to replace the Empire bridge, to .McLean Island, and the construction camp. Up to the present time experiments in television in the Dominion have been restricted to reception only. It is understood that a television transmitting station may shortly commence operations in Christchurch. So far the experimenters have received fairly good reproductions of pictures broadcasted from America. The area between the Municipal Electricity Department's building in Manchester street and the Municipal Tepid Baths is being prepared ready for building operations. The Department's building is to be extended to provide more showroom accomjnoaation, and also more space for the Department's storeroom. Theory examinations under the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music commenced at the East Christchurch School on Saturday, about 60 pupils entering. The results will not be available until July 14th, as the papers have to be sent to Australia for marking. Dr. Markham Lee is expected here in November to conduct the practical examinations.

There are about 300 building sections in the Metropolitan Trotting Club's subdivision m Ricearton which is now being prepared, and remarks made by speakers who explained the Ricearton electrical loan proposals at the Town Hall on Saturday nig. showed that they hope for big building extension in the borough. This was on© of the strongest arguments used for carrying the loan poll to-day. It has been arranged that two Ministers (the Hon. Mr Forbes, and the Hon. Mr Ransom) and their families will take over, during the forthcoming session of Parliament, the upper portion of the Prime Ministerial residence in Tinakori road. The Prime Minister himself resides at Parliament House, and the ground floor of 260 Tinakori road is occupied by the Transport Department. A confirmation service was held by Bishop West-Watson at St. James's, Ricearton, last night. After the confirmation the Bishop gave a 6hort personal address to tlie candidates. The congregation numbered about 300, and 40 candidates were coniirmcd. Today work will be started at St. James's altering the interior of the church to receive the new organ which is to arrive from Fendalton.

Slight damage to a taxi and a m ..tor-cycle anu sidecar outfit was causeu yeateraay morning in a collision at. the corner of Colombo street anu Bealey avenue. The left front wheel of the taxi, driven by bamuel Robertson, was buckled and the axle bent, while the motor-cycle, driven by William Hugh Beggs, was also damaged. The sidecar was loaded with cans of milk, and a quantity of this was lost in the collision.

The Hon. Mr Cobbe (Minister for Marine. Industry, and Commerce) passed through Christchurch yesterday on his way to attend a social function at the Bluff in honour of the Hon. Mr de la Perrelle. During his visit ta the south, Mr Cobbe will investigate the question of the better disposal of surplus stores of fish. Bluff has no propel freezing apparatus and as good catches are sometimes taken which cannot be consumed locally there is difficulty in avoiding waste. Mr Cobbe will return north by tne ferry to-morrow night. Speaking of the likeness of some parts of New Zealand to the Old Country, Miss Jennie Street, who is conducting a Christian Endeavour campaign in this City, told an audience on Saturday night that she would sometimes feel that she was in England, and would then see some plant that would never grow in their colder clime. "How can I feel that I am in England when I see a cabbage tree?" she asked. Miss Street sees in Now Zealand a great deal of scope for the Christian En deavour movement among the young people, and bases her belief partly on the New Zealand roads, of all things. "The people who made those roads," she said, "can do anything." The design for the new bridge over the Avon at Seaview road, New Brighton, submitted by Mr F. Toogood, the New Brighton Borough Council's engineer, provides for a structure resting on three arches, with the centre arch 28ft wide. The total cost is estimated at £9150. Mr A. E. Galbraith, City Engineer, has expressed the opinion that he would like to see a bridge with a 12'lft span and one chain in width. The cost, £17,000, he admitted, would be altogether too expensive. As an alternative he favoured a bridge with a centre arch of 70ft and two flanking arches of 25ft. Or there might be two 30ft arches and two 25ft arches. These arches -would allow the passage of eight-oared boats.

The question of legislation to give municipal sinking fund commissioners extended powers, which was brought before Friday's meeting in Wellington of the executive of the New Zealand Municipal Association by the Mayor of Christchurcb (Mr J. K Archer), and supported by the Town Clerk (Mr J. S. Neville) was advanced a stage. The proposal was that sinking fund commissioners should have power to borrow money in anticipation of receipts by obtaining an overdraft at the bank not exceeding one year's income. If so empowered, they would be able to take up investments demanding larger sums than they had available at the time. When the matter was brought up on Fridav the chairman of the executive ruled that the executive had no power to initiate legislation, but could recommend to the conference the initiation of legislation. Consequently, nothing could be done till conference meets next year In the meantime Mr Archer undertook to sitdtdly ejtch memher of the executive with a memorandum setting out the grounds on wh'ch the proposed legislation is necessary

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