CITY AND SUBURBAN ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 72, 18 December 1928, Page 6

CITY AND SUBURBAN ITEMS

NEWS AND NOTES OF INTEREST

An undertaking was made by the Lower Hutt Borough Council, at its meeting last night, to lay down a tarsealed area at Boulcott School, for use as a basket-ball and drill ground.

Formal consent to the subdivision for the widening of Victoria Street was given at last night’s meeting of the Lower Hutt Borough Council.

The value of buildings erected in the Petone Borough for the last eight months was £123,601. For the mouth of November building permits to the total value of £16,637 were issued.

F. Halberton, a waterside worker, residing at No. 14 Clyde Street, was struck by a falling keg while loading the Karetu, berthed at the Queens Wharf, yesterday afternoon, and received a contused wound on his right knee. The Free Ambulance conveyed the injured man to Dr. Fanlke, for treatment, and then to.his home.

Through the kindness of the combined motor trades some 350 children from a number of the Wellington homes were taken for a Christmas drive raounti the city and suburbs on Saturday. Under the direction of Mr. E. Reynolds, who acted as marshal, the" fleet of cars assembled in the Post Office Square, from where they set off on a long drive around Oriental Bay, Evans Bay, Point Halswell, Karaka Bay, Seatoun, Breaker Bay, Lyall Bay, up Happy Valley, and over Brooklyn home. The homes represented and the number of children from them were as follow: Church of England Home, Karori, 100: Presbyterion Boys’ Home, Berhampore, 68; Presbyterian Girls’ Home, Island Bay, 47; Levin Home, Berhampore, 26: Home of Compassion, Berhampore. 40; Salvation Army Home, Newtown, 48: Children's Home, Miramar, 9; Boys’ Home. Austin Street, 9.