General News

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21328, 22 November 1934, Page 10

General News

Excused "These are cheering signs," remarked the Rev. Clarence Eaton, chairman of the Methodist Synod, yesterday morning, when three clergy asked for dispensations from attendance on the ground of engagements to take marriage services. "I am sure you will all agree with these dispensations," Mr Eaton said. Causeway Nearing Completion The work on the new embankment for the Sumner causeway is rapidly nearing completion. Only 2i chains remains to be constructed and it is expected that this work will be finished before Christmas, when the causeway will be joined up at the Sumner end with the existing road. It is now likely that the work will be delayed slightly because soft ground of considerable depth is being encountered. This may extend the time necessary for the filling-in work. Recently the amount of work available decreased to such an extent that some of the unemployed engaged on the causeway had to be taken off the job and it is stated that more men will be put off as the undertaking nears completion. Barrington Street Bridge A start has been made with driving the piles for the new traffic bridge over the Heathcote river at Barrington street. A footbridge has been erected for the convenience of pedestrians. The new bridge, which is being erected at a cost of £1260, is expected to be completed in less than three months. Built of reinforced concrete, it will be a handsome improvement on the former wooden bridge, and will provide for a carriage-way 30 feet wide with two 6ft footways.

Piping for Water Service

A delay which has occurred in the arrival of the steel water-pipes for the renewal of the Colombo street south main recently held up the work there, but the pipes are now being delivered and the work is being resumed. These pipes are among the first of -their type to be laid down in the city. They are provided with an internal concrete lining and an external coating of hessian impregnated with bitumen. With these improvements it is anticipated that even assuming that after a period of years the metal piping is perforated, the concrete lining will be strong enough to carry the pressure. The pipes are a very recent innovation in this type of work either in New Zealand or abroad. Y.M.C.A. Collection . "There have been many enquiries in the last few days as to how our collectors can be identified," stated Mr A. J. McEldowney, general secretary to the Christchurch Young Men's Christian Association yesterday. "It appears that a great many organisations are collecting at the present, time, and it is only right that the public should be supplied with credentials before handing money over lo collectors." Mr McEldowney said that each of the association's collectors was supplied with a black notebook with his signed authority to collect pasted in the front. Those from whom contributions were sought should ask to see the authority and to enter the name and amount of the contribution in the book. .Maori War Memorial The plans for the memorial to South Island Maoris who fell in the Great War, which is to be erected at the: entrance of the proposed model pa at Arowhenua. have now reached Temuka, and the stonemasons will commence work this morning. The structure will stand about 15 feet high, and it will have an arched top, into which will be let a broad panel containing the carved heads of the founders of the na, Maiharoa and his wife, it will be built throughout of Oamaru stone and the side pillars of the arch will be panelled 1,, allow a roll of honour on each side. With the new Maori church on the south corner and the memorial on the north, the two will make an imposing landmarl: to traveller"; on the Main South road.

Radio Mast 500 Foci High

The last section of the new IYA mast at Henderson, near Auckland, was hauled into position yesterday, thus completing the largest radio mast south of Mexico Cilv. It is 500 feet high. All that remains to be done is the rigging of the aerial and the tightening of a icw bolts. There arc signs of intense activity in the transmitter building, where truck loads of equipment are arriving every few minutes. The plant lias been built in Sydney, where it was assembled and fully tested before being dismantled and shipped, ft is anticipated that the plant will be ready for final tests some lime next month. By that time the Shortland street studios of the new station should also be ready Cor occupation.—Press Association. Dust of Fourteen Countries An Auckland pilot, Mr 11. G. Tappenden, was liberally besprinkled vviih dust when he accompanied Squadron Leader M. C. McGregor on an aeroplane flight, from Mangerc aerodrome recently in the Miles Hawk flown by the Manawatu pilots in the Centenary air race. During a slow roll a cloud of dust was seen to fly from the front cockpit and envelop the passenger as the machine turned upside-down. On landing, the pilot informed Mr Tappenden that he had had the dust of 14 countries showered upon him, the machine not having been inverted since it left Mildenhall to fly to Melbourne. Naming of Street A new street constructed as part of the subdivision of property at Fitzhcrbert terrace, Wellington, is likely to be named Katherine avenue. It was mentioned at the last meeting of the city council that this was in honour of Katherine Mansfield, the novelist, daughter of Sir Harold Beauchamp. It was stated that the suggestion had been made that the street should be called after Sir William Fox—-a prominent New Zealand Company leader, one of Wellington's "three F's" and four times Premier—but it was considered that Katherine Mansfield was much more widely known, and had indeed made New Zealand famous. "She is much more entitled to the honour than the directors of the New Zealand Company, for all they did for the city," said Mr M. F. Luckie. It was argued that the new road almost went through the property on which Katherine Mansfield had resided, and was near the school she attended. t England buys Butter; you should buy their MOWERS. BAMLETT is the best and strongest English Mower. Very reasonable price. Come and look it over. ANDREWS AND BEAVEN, LTD. —2