CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 6, 2 October 1929, Page 13

CITY AND SUBURBAN

HAPPENINGS IN AND ABOUT TOWN

An old publication has been unearthed by a member of the Management Committee of the Rugby Union. Last night the chairman, Mr. J. Prendeville, in reading extracts from it, discovered that the total takings at club matches in 1894 was £37.

J. D. Mills, a coal merchant, residing at 163 The Parade, Island Bay, was run over by a motor lorry on the Railway Wharf yesterday afternoon, nis right arm being crushed. He also received abrasions to the arm. Mills was taken by the Free Ambulance to the hospital.

During the discussion at the Wheal Inquiry yesterday, the question of placing an import duty on eggs from HongKong and other Eastern sources, cropped up, and the member for Parnell (Mr. H. R. Jenkins) caused a laugh by remarking that in his experience the quality of the eggs in China was about equivalent to the outflow water from a septic tank.

A Wellington painter, E. R. Hawkey, was fined £6 by Mr. J. S. Barton, S.llin the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, for failing to pay wages weekly to an employee. The Inspector of Awards (Mr. F. W. Ashby), who prosecuted, said the case was not one of irregularity of payment, as no wages whatever had been paid by Hawkey to the worker, who had been employed by the defendant for over a fortnight.

The body of Samuel Leslie, who had been missing for several days, was recovered from the harbour, near Roseneath, by the police yesterday. Leslie was employed as a night porter in a city hotel. He was last seen by a fellow employee last Saturday on a tram car. He is stated to have been single, about forty years of age, with no relatives in this country.

In the early part of the Parliamentary Committee’s inquiry in relation to the Rotorua-Taupo railway, a table in the committee-room was loaded up with turnips, mangolds, potatoes and onions as evidence of the fertility of the soil. In the three weeks in which they have lain there the warmth of the atmosphere has induced the large roots to sprout freely, and yesterday the tops had grown to a length of about six inches. Even the onions were sending up sprouts which were two inches long. The atmosphere appears to be conducive to growth.

The Competitions Society last night received a letter from Perth County Musical Festival, Stratford, Ontario, saying they had just received the yearbook of the British Federation of Musical Competition Festivals, and that they were anxious to exchange their syllabus and programme with societies in other parts of the world. They asked for copies of the Wellington syllabus and programme, and would forward their 1929 programme and 1930 syllabus as soon as published. The secretary, Mr. G. W. Jenner, said he had complied with the request by the return mail. .

Speaking of bis early associations with the old Miramar borough at the meeting of the Eastern Suburbs League on Monday night, Mr. A. Jorgenson said that a stream ran through some land that he owned, and a number of willow trees were growing on the banks. The authorities served him with notice to remove the willows, alleging that they were stopping up the watercourse. He refused to touch the trees, as it would have caused the banks to break down and flood the land around. Proceedings were taken, but the Magistrate refused the order for the removal of the trees. That action led to his being elected on the Miramar Borough Council, and he has taken a great deal of interest in municipal government since, a period of over 30 years.

A new traracar, No. 200. was yesterday put through its trials on the section in the cutting on the Wadestown route, which is the official testing ground for new trams before they are put into commission.

Last month Mr. R. Darroch (secretary of the Wellington Navy League) visited 23 schools in the Masterton and Carterton districts at the Invitation of the Masterton Navy League, addressing 2554 school pupils. This brings to nearly 8000 the total of children outside Wellington addressed this year.

When working in the D.I.C. building yesterday morning, D. AL Wallace, an electrician’s apprentice, caught his right foot in a lift with the result that the little toe was severed. Wallace, who lives at 167 Upland Road, was attended to by the Free Ambulance and taken to the hospital.

Members of the Wellington NavyLeague’s committees will attend at the Prime Minister’s office to-morrow morning in order to present to him two resolutions passed by all the branches of the League in New Zealand protesting against one-sided disarmament and the freedom of the seas in war-time. Mr. R. Darroch (secretary) will be the speaker for the depution.

A lacerated wound on the scalp was received yesterday afternoon by Walter Jennings, aged 14, who resides in Main Road, Ngaio, and who was knocked down by a tram-car in Manners Street. He was taken to the Hospital by the Free Ambulance.

A member of the executive of the Competitions Society last night suggested that economies should be effected in advertising. His error was pointed out by a business man member of the executive, who said that if his colleague’s argument was right, then all the business men who were advertising all the year round were fools. The originator of the suggestion realised the truth of the value of advertising and offered to “climb under the table.”

For the first time in Its history a charge will be made for admission to the Wellington Zoo on Sunday next. As the ground on which the Zoo is located is a public reserve, Parliament was not inelined to sanction this charge without a mandate from th® people. This was sought on last municipal election day, when the vote was 13,945 in favour of the Sunday charge and 8566 against. It is anticipated that, given fine weather, there will be good attendances at the Zoo throughout the summer, as the whole of the grounds have been considerably improved during the past winter. The rosery is looking very well indeed, and a great show is anticipated next month.

“Had I been in a large car I don’t know what would have happened.” writes “Motorist.” in speaking of the tendency to cut corners on Carlton Gore Road. “In the last week I have had two very close calls, one at the first bend from the point where it leaves Oriental Bay, and the other at the second bend. In the former I was coming down the hill and fortunately had kept very close in to the bank, for right on the semi-circular bend a fiveseater came up the hill and round the bend wholly over its wrong side of the centre line. In the second instance I was going up the hill at the next corner, and a car coming down also turned the corner wholly on its wrong side of the line. I was three or four yards short of the corner or a collision could not have been avoided. The only thing T had the opportunity of noticing was that in each case the driver was a woman.”