General News.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20022, 2 September 1930, Page 10

General News.

The appeal of tho Templeton Bus Company against the Tramway Board bavins been given the license for the City-Templeton bus run will be heard bv the Transport Appoal Board on September Bth. Tho increase in fares on tho omnibus service to Bromley Cemetery on Saturday afternoons and Sunday, which the City Council subsidises, will be passed on to tho passengers and not met by the Council itself. A letter notifying the Council of the increases, and asking what' stops it proposed to take, was received last evening from the Christchurcb Tramway Board. During the coming season the following streets are to be reconstructed in concrete and bitumen: —High street, from Madras street to Hereford street; Colombo street,_ Sydenham; Lincoln road, from Barrington street to Addington Post Office. In this work the City Council will co-operate with tho Tramway Board. The proposal to reduce the charge of electric current for domestic use will be discussed bv the Christchurch City Council at its meeting on October 27th, and not on October 13th, as at first proposed. The postponement was asked for by the Electricity Committee in order to allow time for tho conmletion and analysis of the figures of the Municipal Electricity Department for the year ended September 30th. . Tho work of regrading tho channels and of bridging some portions of them on the part of Lincoln road to be reconstructed by the City Council was finished yesteday, and the actual road reconstruction work will start to-day. The part to be reconstructed is from Barrington street to the Addington Post Office, and the work is to start at the Barrington street ond of tho stretch.

A letter from Mr W. Hodge, Barbadoes street, propounding a scheme of access to the sea by a short tunnel from the head of Cashmere Valley, under the "Sign o£ the Kiwi" to Governor's Bay, and the development of the latter as a port, was received at yesterday's meeting of the Lyttelton Harbour Board. "Refer it to the Harbourmaster," said a member. The letter was received without discussion. A resolution making and levying the rates and annual fee for 1930-31 was formally carried by the Christchurcli City Council last evening on the motion of Cr. E. H. Andrews, seconded by Cr. J. W. Beanland. Cr. Andrews and Cr. C. E. Jones moved further that the rate-books should be signed, that corrections should be initialled by yt. E. It. McCombs and Cr. .E. H). Andrews, and that the books should be kept in tho offices of the Council for inspection by ratepayers. This resolution was also carried. Gracefield street will now be known as Gracefield avenue. Tho City Council agreed to the change last night, the By-laws, Finance, and Departmental Committee having recommended it. Mr H. Holland, M.P. for Chnstchurch North, wrote suggesting the change. Residents in the street, he said, heartily approved of it,. especially in view of the confusion which took pjace between Gracefield street and Gresford street.

Work by tlio Lyttelton Harhour Board and the Telegraph Department in connexion the mstai lation of telephones for the■ °£ vessels at the wharves is well under wav, and at Yesterday's meeting ot the Harbour Board gratification was expressed that one shipping company had given a standing order that a telephone should be installed on each of its vessels arriving at Lyttelton. The Dunedin Returned Soldiers' Association successfully fought an appeal for a pension for an Imperial ex-ser-vicoman, who received medical treatroont in New Zealand in 1927 for a war disability, for which he had not received a pension. As a result or voluminous correspondence with the Ministi y of Pensions in Britain the man is now being awarded a full pension. With the pension is the sum of £3ll, making the pension retrospective to 1927.—Press Association. There was a decrease of two casos of infections and other notifiable diseases reported in the Canterbury and West Coast Health districts during the week ended noon yesterday, as compared with tho previous week. The total last week was 26, as follows: — Canterbury: Scarlet fever, 4; diphtheria, 5; tuberculosis, 8; pneumonia, 2; erysipelas, 2; eclampsia, 1. Deaths: Tuberculosis, 1; pneumonia, 1. West Coast: Diphtheria, 3; pneumonic influenza.

Financial assistance from tho Board for the Hagley Park Improvement Fund was solicited in a letter .received at yesterday's meeting; of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, and signed by Mr R. B. Owen. as honorary organiser. "A lot of money is being spent in Hagley Park on work for tho unemployed," said Mr F. Horrell. "It the came from the Domains Board it would be a different mnttcr," said Mr H. Holland, M.P. The letter was received. "I have given the matter much thought, and have decided that discretion is the better part of valour ; I plead guilty," said Mr 11. C. D. van Asch, in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when he was charged with on the North road. A fine was inflicted bv Mr E, D. Mosley, S.M., who suggested to Mr J. D. Hutchison, who conducted the # case, that probably he would not wish to claim a solicitor's fee from another solicitor. "Dog doesn't eat dog." replied Mr Hutchison, amid laughter

There was considerable activity on Riccarton road yesterday, when the contractors, British Pavements, Ltd., started putting on the second bitumen coat on the portion of the road in the borough. In order not to interfere with traffic, one side of the road is firgt done. Lorries brought in the material from the company's plant, near Islington, and the spraying plant treated the road surface prior to the chips being spread on it. The portion of the road to be treated was first Bprayed with bitumen, one-quarter of a gallon to the square yard; chips pre-mixed with bitumen were then spread over this surface, then another spraying of bitumen, half a gallon to the square-yard was applied, and lastly heated chips w«re spread. It is anticipated that the work will be finished in a week if the weather continues favourable.

A renewal of its grunt of £IOO to j the Canterbury Progress League was decided upon at yesterday's meeting of the Lyttelton Harbour Board. The Plunket Society will probably move into their new premises in Chester street on September 15th. September 26th has been fixed as the date for the official opening. Advice has been received by Mr It. W. Hawke, M.P., from the Hon. J. B. Donald, Postmaster-General, that the request for a public telephone call-box at Hornby has been granted. Application to have its twelve traffic inspectors vested with tho powers of special constables for another year is to be made to a Stipendiary Magistrate by the City Council. Permission has been given tho Christchurch Returned Soldiers' Associntion to hold Sunday concerts in the Civic Theatre on the evenings of September 7th and 21st in aid of the Association's unemployment fund. Messrs J. and W. Jamieson, Ltd., have begun the work of reconstructing the Abattoir. The fences and open slieep pens have boon removed, and temporary races and pens erected. Mr D. Hall, a qualified architect, has been appointed clerk of works. Examination of candidates for first appointments to commissions is at present being conducted in the No. 12 Regimental District of tho Southern Command. On Saturday and yesterday. tests were being gone through at the Kine Edward Barracks, and on the Cashmere Hills. The next Conciliation Council sitting at which Mr W. 11. Hagger, Conciliation Commissioner, will preside, will be that dealing with the demands of the Southland Journalists' Union. It will bo held in Invcrcargill on September 11th The Lyttelton Harbour Board, at its meeting yesterday, decided to give a cup. valued at £25, for tho highest average grade for the season for cheese graded and exported through the Board's cold stores. The following applications for street collections have been granted by tho Citv Council Violet Day (Pluiiket Society). September 12th; Daffodil Day (Creche and Kindergnrten Association) September 26th; Annie Herbert Memorial Appeal, November 26th. At the next meeting of the Christchurch Domains Board on Friday next, the Hon. D. Buddo will move: "That a committee be set up to enquire into and report on the question of providing a superannuation scheme for the Christchurch Domains Board permanent employees." An endeavour to purchase from the Government the site of the Sailors' Home at Lyttelton, for purposes in addition to a sailors' home, is being made by the Lyttelton Harbour Board. The site is under offer to the Board at the Government valuation of £2780, but it has been suggested that the price should be fixed by arbitration.

During tho spring tide period at Lyttelton from August 24th to August 26th, a series of exceptionally low tides occurred. On the morning of the 25th. the tide fell 1 foot 11 inches below tho zero of the automatic tide gauge, the lowest reading which has ever come under notice. _An interesting feature is that the tides did not, as is usually the case, rise correspondingly high. To prevent unauthorised persons from hawking in the City, the City Council has decided to issue, with permits, badges of four distinct colours. Three of these colours will be used alternatively for those securing monthly permits; the fourth will bo reserved for those taking out annual licenses. When the applicant receives the badge, he will be charged Is, which will be refunded when tho badge is returned.

A Blenheim man is chuckling over the revenge which he has secured at the expense of a petrol thief. Becently he lost a case of motor-spirit from his garage, and decided to set a trap. Accordingly he filled up two tins with water, placed them in a case, and awaited events. They have been duly stolen, and he is now interested in any motorist Who appears to be having difficulty with the starting handle. Aerial photographs would bo of great assistance in the hearing of accident cases, said Mr F. H. Levien, S.M., at the Ottihuhu Magistrate's Court recently. Mr Levien said they would give a more exact impression of the locality and the distances than a panoramic photograph or a plan. He added that ho did not know of ally cases in which aerial photographs had been produced, but it appeared they would be less expensive than a survey plan. "I am an ethical man and believe in cosmic law" was a phrase used in a letter to the Wanganui-Rangitikei Electric Power Board received at a meeting last week. The writer was explaining why he used a filed-down halfpenny for his meter instead of a shilling. The baby, he said, was being washed so when the lights went out, and there was not a single shilling in the house he used tho halfpenny. After legal opinion had been obtained the Board decided that Court action should follow.

News from Auckland of the proposal that officers of the Ist Battalion of the Auckland Regiment should wear the tie of the Suffolk Regiment, to which the 3rd Auckland Regiment is allied, brings to mind the fact that officers of the Ist Battalion of the Canterbury Regiment are already wearing the regimental tie of their allied English regiment, the Royal West Kents. All New Zealand regiments are allied to some English regiment, which has a tradition behind it, and the Canterbury Regiment recentlv decided that the regimental tie ot the Royal West Kents should be worn by the officers of the Ist Battalion. A consignment arrived recently from England, and the ties are now being worn, the pattern being alternate stripes of light and dark blue. Messrs Newman Bros , Ltd., have an interesting announcement on page 6 of this , issue. Having acquired the business of the Kaikoura United Motor Co., Ltd., and the garage premises lately occupied by Cato Motors, Ltd., at 156-158 Gloucester street, City, these premises will, in future, be the arrival and departure station for all of Newman Service cars, as well as all other White Star cars and buses operating to and from Christchurclr. Taxi fares will never be raised as long as the Public keep on patronising the Gold Band Taxis,, as they have already been asked to raise the fares, but tliey refuse, so keep on 'phoning 34075 or 35572 for Gold Band Taxis. Thank you. —2 Babies will grow, and every stage of growth is charming. Have your babv photographed often at the Steffano Webb Studio His baby pictures are the very personification of babyhood '252 High street —6 Economy in all things —even luncheons these days Cooke's have issued a booklet of six tickets for 7s 6d. This means a saving on every meal. Have a hot luncheon at Cooke's or Tndor Tea Rooms, High street. —6 The cheapest taxi fares in New Zealand are those of the Gold Band Taxisi so why pay more; everybody is riding in them and all are satisfied, so 'phone i 34075 or 35572- Thank you. —3