CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 130, 26 February 1929, Page 13

CITY AND SUBURBAN

HAPPENINGS IN AND ABOUT TOWN

The Lower Hutt Borough Council decided last night to call the Day’s Bay road deviation, at present in course of construction, “Sea View” Road.

The annual conference of the Wellington Manufacturers’ Federation will open in the Chamber of Commerce to-morrow morning. The Prime Minister (Right Hon. Sir Joseph Ward) is to attend the annual luncheon at the conclusion of the morning session.

With Lieutenant-Colonel 11. Evatt, V.D. in command, the Ist Battalion Wellington Regiment, numbering about 400, went into camp for a week's training at Trentham yesterday. They will return to the city on Sunday.

F. W. Jeffries fell off a roof he was painting in Museum Street yesterday morning, and injured his back. He was attended by the Free Ambulance, and taken to the hospital. He resides at 55 McKinley Crescent.

The riding of motor-cycles without silencers is still a course of complaint in Wellington. Residents in the vicinity of the Basin Reserve are complaining of being awakened at all hours of the morning by the objectionable noise of the motor-cycles.

A fall on some broken glass resulted in Jack Pointon, a schoolboy, of 15 Sidey Street, sustaining a large incised wound on his left leg yesterday. He was taken to the hospital by the Free Ambulance.

“I read with mingled feelings of interest and remorse your City and Suburban paragraph describing how a crowd can be induced to gaze skywards at nothing,” writes “Fleeced.” “Once and once only was I one of the victims of such a hoax. On the': occasion I was relieved by the organising ‘dip’ of my watch and chain I”

A newsboy, named Cyril. Baddily, of 13 Finlay Terrace, was knocked down by a motor-car opposite Government Buildings yesterday afternoon. He sustained facial injuries and abrasions to a leg, besides suffering from shock. He w’as attended by the Free Ambulance and taken to hospital.

The Akatarawa Valley was literally alive with city people during the weekend, and those who did not arrive reasonably early in the morning found difficulty in securing a parking site for their cars, and a nook in which to have lunch. The numerous swimming pools were swarming with bathers, and. the hillside was studded all day with men, women, and children engaged in picking blackberries.

The male population of Wellington for the past six months has ruthlessly disregarded the “correct” rules of footwear (writes “Fashion”). Patent leather shoes, which should be reserved exclusively for dress attire, are worn to work, and tan shoes with navy blue suits—a ghastly combination—are a common sight. With such increasing contempt for the conventions, it should not be long before the “boiled” shirt is displaced by the soft, or even the canoe variety.

. There, is a nice little man-trap for the unwary pedestrial in Bond Street. In front of a vacant section which has been boarded-in three big planks have been laid down lengthways in lieu of paving. The centre one has warped badly, and if someone steps one one end a second before someone else approaches the other end, the plank tips up four or five inches and the someone else is likely to be brought up sharply against the end of the plank, with risk of injury to foot. Tripping up over the obstacle is a daily occurence at present, but something worse may happen if it is not attended to.

The popularity of the cheap Sunday rail fares was again in evidence on Sunday, when over 1200 passengers were carried to the seaside resorts between Thorndon and Otaki, while approximately 300 passengers took advantage of the day. excursion from Palmerston North to Paekakariki and Wellington. The issue of cheap Sunday fares will be extended to Manawatu stations up to and including Palmerston North, commencing on Sunday nejt. The Railway Department draws attention to its advertisement featuring a half-fare week-end excursion to Waitomo Caves, Frankton, or Auckland on Friday next.

The Queen’s Wharf yesterday afternoon presented a scene of exceptional activity, the whole wharf being one solid moving mass of motor-lorries, large and small, admirably handled by the wharf officials, who reduced apparent chaos to order with the greatest of ease. Some of the city intersections carry at times a large amount of traffic, but in comparison with the scene on the Queen’s Wharf yesterday, they would appear almost as devoid of traffic as a quiet country lane. At No. 1 south berth the Makura was discharging her Sydney cargo, at No. 6. the Manuka was unloading cargo from Melbourne. At No. 4 was the Tamahine, loading for Picton, at No. 2 lay the Katoa, discharging and loading, and at No. 1 north the Wingatui was doing the same. To and from each vessel came lorries, empty and laden, the combination making a volume of vehicular traffic such as is seldom seen on a Wellington wharf.

The Mayoral bench in the Lower Hutt Council Chamber presented rather a strange sight last night. The Mayor sat in his usual chair, while on either side of him sat the borough engineer and the town clerk, both wearing “Harold Lloyd” glasses with huge horn rims and curved green celluloid blinkers, which covered the top half of each rim, and which acted as shades.

A meeting of conveners and helpers in connection with the forthcoming Red Cross Day was held at Red Cross headquarters last week. The secretary reported that preliminary arrangements were well in hand. A large supply of small Red Cross flags had been printed and would be sold on the day. Many promises of produce and various gifts had been made by firms and private growers, Members of visiting theatrical companies had signified their readiness to turn out in large numbers to co-operate with the society, in its effort.

Included in the correspondence received at, the Petone Borough Council’s meeting- last night was a letter from the Director of Education (Mr. T. B. Strong) asking if the council would agree to an additional portion of the recreation ground being used for technical school purposes. It was emphasised by members of the council that no land at present used as the recreation ground would be parted with, but as it appeared that only an entrance was required, it was decided to reply that consideration would be given to the matter when it was put before the council asking for am entrance only.

Andrew Buff, a schoolboy, resident in Essex Street, was playing at the Te Aro School grounds yesterday when he fell and fractured his right wrist. He was attended by the Free Ambulance and removed to hospital.

Permission has been granted by the Lower Hutt Borough Council to the Hutt Valley Primary School Amateur Athletic Association to use the Lower Hutt Recreation Ground on Friday, March 15, for the purpose of holding the first combined primary schools athletic meeting in the valley. Permission was also given to charge for admission.

The Free Ambulance met the 5.40 p.m. train from Featherston yesterday to convey to the Wellington Hospital James Traill, of Cross Creek, who had fallen from a motor-cycle and fractured a leg. The injured man was placed on board the train at Cross Creek. His condition is satisfaci ory.

The Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Ward) has advised the Lower Hutt Borough Council that he has much pleasure in agreeing to the council’s proposal that the new street -connecting the new bridge at Lower Hutt with Woburn Road shall be called "Ward Street.”

At last night’s meeting of the Petone Borough Council a letter was received from the town clerk, Wellington, stating that the council’s request for the Eastbourne motor-buses to go down Jackson Street instead of the Esplanade as at present, would be considered when the new licenses were being issued.

A letter was received at the Petone Borough Council’s meeting last night from the Clerk of the Court, Wellington. advising that, on the application of the Hutt County Council, the Magistrate would hear local authorities on Monday, March 25, relative to the apportionment of heavy traffic fees.

Few people in Wellington appear te realise that the name of Titahi Bay is mispronounced in nine cases out of ten. The correct pronunciation is “Tee-tar-hee," and not “Tee-tie” as is usually heard. In a Supreme Court case yesterday, involving a dispute over some land at Titahi Bay, Mr. Justice Herdman used the correct pronunciation throughout the proceedings. It is seldom heard.

It might have been the jolting of the bus—and then, again, it might have been love. Whatever it was, it did not stop e young woman in a Petone-bound bus last night from making part of the journey with her head resting on her escort’s shoulder. It really must have been a case of “love is blind,” for the couple certainly did not appear to see that all others in the bus were decidedly amused, and, in some, cases, sympathetic.

One of the new books which certain boys attending college are required to get is one on “Dominion Civics,” and the price charged is 3s. It has only a cloth cover, and is not a large book at that, but for the price charged it should at least be up to date. One purchased new last week had as the frontispiece the late Mr. Massey as Prime Minister, and a photograph of Sir James Parr as Minister of Education. The last-named has been out of office so long that one had almost forgotten that he had held the office. If the reading contents are on a par with the illustrations, then the college boys will be two or three years behind the times in their civics.

As a sequel to the yachting mishap, which occurred during the ocean race about ten days ago, the two yachts, Shamrock and Windward, were brought back to Wellington during the week-end. The disabled Windward left Okukari Bay at 6 a.m. on Saturday, in tow of one of the Island Bay fishing boats, and arrived in the boat harbour at 2 p.m. the same day. The Shamrock, which had gone to the rescue of the Windward and was entirely undamaged, was brought back on Sunday by her crew, who had gone over for that purpose by the Tamahine on the previous afternoon. Leaving at 10.15 a.m., the Shamrock arrived off the heads at 2 p.m. after an uneventful passage.

The parents of boys attending college are wondering why, at the commencement of the new school year, their boys are not given a complete list of the books they require for their new class or form, instead of being given them in dribs and drabs. In the last three weeks it has not been unusual for a college boy every three or four days, to requisition his parents for two, three, or more fresh books, usually costing from 2s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. each. It is rather exasperating for parents where the family income is limited to have this intermittent demands for books —usually ss. to 10s. at a time. If the boys could have the complete list, it might be possible for parents to get hold of the more expensive ones second hand, or at least, to get a discount on the complete purchase.

“Indignant” writes: “When the seven o’clock ferry boat berthed at Day’s Bay on Sunday night there was a wild scramble on the part of trippers to get aboard. People who had waited on the wharf for an hour were pushed aside by later arrivals, women were shown no consideration, and the whole proceeding was deplorable for its conduct. Had a child been caught in the crush it would have been injured. The crowd were like a lot of lunatics. It is a pity the authorities cannot supervise things properly when the gangways go down.”