CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 175, 20 April 1929, Page 11

CITY AND SUBURBAN

HAPPENINGS IN AND ABOUT TOWN

The supplementary roll of municipal electors to be used in connection with the pending elections, will be ready on Tuesday next.

The city engineer’s department is still engaged in the preparation of the plans for the Eastern Suburbs tunnel: According to the last decision of the council, when the plans are completed tenders will be called for.

It is expected that the paving preparation work in Glasgow Street, Grant Road, and Main Road, Wadestown, will be completed next month. The paving season will soon be drawing to a close.

Mr. C. H. Chapman, M.P., has given notice to move as follows at Wednesday’s meeting of the Wellington Harbour Board: —“That in the opinion of the board the time has arrived when an appeal board should be established in order that appeals may be heard on the following matters—salaries, promotion, disrating and any other questions affecting individual members of the staff. That an equitable constitution of an appeal board would be one representative appointed by the board, one by the staff, and an independent chairman agreed to by the two representatives (in the event of no agreement with regard to a chairman a stipendiary magistrate to be appointed).”

When Hector William Laming came before Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of being found in charge of a motor-car while" in a state of intoxication, he entered a plea of guilty and was fined £2O. His license was cancelled ’ for three months. Senior-Sergeant Butler stated that at about 6 p.m. on Thursday, Constable S. Browne saw accused driving along Kent Terrace at a rate between 30 and 40 miles an hour. The driver appeared to be huddled over the wheel. Constable Brown was .unable to stop the car, but followed, and found it stationary outside the Caledonian Hotel. The driver was not there, but after a few minutes came out of the hotel under the influence of liquor. He was then arrested.

The tender of Messrs. Ellis and Co. for the supply to the City Corporation of 150 tons of bitumen for £1125 has been accepted. *-

Nine tenders have been received by the City Council for the erection of the new milk station in Tory Street. All are below the City Engineer’s estimate.

Laurence Maloney, a child, who resides with his parents at 19 Wigan Street, was knocked down by a horsedrawn lorry in Vivian Street at 6.30 p.m, yesterday. He suffered from abrasions to the left temple, concussion, and shock. He was attended to by the Free Ambulance, taken to a doctor, and then to the hospital.

The annual householders’ meetings and election of school committees will be held at the various schools in the Wellington Education District on Monday night. Jit is, of course, impossible to send a Press representative to every one of the meetings, and chairmen or secretaries of committees are requested to advise “The Dominion” by telephone, 44—020, of the election of the new committee any any resolutions which may be-carried.

A plea of not guilty was entered by Albert Bottom, a butcher, aged 37, who appeared before Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with being found in charge of a motor-car while in a state of intoxication. Senior-Sergeant Butler stated that shortly after 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Constable Paget saw defendant sitting alone, and apparently asleep, in the driver’s seat of a motor-car in Wakefield Street. The car was stationary. The constable stood Bottom on his feet and found that he was drunk—• almost drunk enough to be locked up. Accused was arrested and taken to the police station. Accused was represented by Mr. J. A. Sc< who contended that his client was not in charge of thf car. After evidence had been heard, the Magistrate remarked that he could not agree with counsel’s view, and proposed to convict accused. A fine of £2O was imposed, and accused’s license was ordered to be suspended for six months.