CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 51, 23 November 1929, Page 13

CITY AND SUBURBAN

HAPPENINGS IN AND ABOUT TOWN Business in the Supreme Court is exceptionally heavy at present, and will continue so right up till the Christmas vacation. Yesterday morning the Chief Justice (Hon. M. Myers),, when fixing the time for the hearing of a case, remarked that the list for the session was the heaviest for ten years. Contributions received in aid of the Victoria Hospital Radio Fund are as follow :—Already acknowledged, £54 7/6; P.M., 2/-; "Boys,” Astor House. 11/-; Mrs. Laura A. Beauchamps. £2 2/-; Mrs. Edith A. Davies, £2/2/-. Total. £59/4/6. . Falling twelve feet while working at the Patent .Slip yesterday morning, a waterside worker named George Hill injured his back and both feet. Hill, who lives at 48 Hutt Road, Petone, was taken to Dr. Faulke by the ambulance. The whims of milady and those who dictate what she shall wear cause a great deal of trouble for the furred members of the animal kingdom. In 1927 the squirrel community had a terrible time, for so much were their tails in demand for collars on ladies’ coats that the poor animals never knew from one day to another whether their precious tails would continue to add to their own appearance or to the appearance of some lady who was determined to follow the vagaries of fashion. According to a witness in the Supreme Court yesterday, the craze for squirrel tail collars suddenly went out, and those furry pieces that once commanded quite a high price are now sold at a much lower figure. Harry Scott, a steward, residing at 68 Hepburn Street, was walking along the Glasgow wharf about 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon when he was knocked down by a motor-tractor. Scott, who sustained injuries to the stomach and the right leg, was taken to hospital by the Free Ambulance. Wood blocks perish if they are not carefully' preserved from moisture. Some thousands of pounds’ worth of blocks in Adelaide Road, .Jervois Quay, Customhouse Quay, and elsewhere have been permitted to deteriorate during the last fifteen years through lack of an annual coat of tar. Indeed, it is a marvel how well they have held up considering the neglect they have been subjected to during and since the war. An attempt is now to be made to “stop the rot,” and a gang is working on Lambton Quay chipping away the old tar, before a new surface is provided.

A special meeting of the City Council will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Alonday to (1) pass a resolution (by way of special order) making “the Wellington City Air Port Control Amendment Bylaw No. 69, 1929”; (2) pass a resolution (by way of special order), making “The Wellington City Milk Sale Amendment By-law, 1929.”

F. Goddard became caught in the machinery of a steam navvy at the Public Works Department tunnel operations at Ngahauranga early yesterday morning. Goddard, who lives at 256 Adelaide Road, sustained a fractured right arm, and was taken to the hospital by the ambulance.

In the dry weather gorse fires are frequent around the city, and every summer the brigade receives a large number of calls to suppress such outbreaks. In drawing attention to the fact that the gorse fire season was close at hand, at yesterday’s meeting of the Fire Board, Mr. Al. Marks said he thought no harm could be done by reminding the City Council of its responsibilities in seeing that gorse was kept cut. This course was agreed to by the board.

James Mills, a labourer, residing at 151 'Tory Street, fell from a ladder at the War Memorial in Lambton Quay yesterday. The Free Ambulance removed liim to the hospital, suffering from injuries to his right foot.

During the past month the Wellington Fire Brigade received 44 calls to fires, and 22 ou account of false alarms. Of the 44 calls to fires, 27 were to property, four to chimney fires, and 13 to gorse, grass, and rubbish outbreaks. Of the false alarms 14 were set down as being justifiable and eight as malicious. From the beginning of the year to date the brigade has received 264 calls to fires as against 243 for the corresponding period last year. The most disquieting feature of the present year’s statistics is the increase in malicious false alarms. To date they total 68, whereas the number was 15 for a similar period last year.

Harold Ludbrook, who lives at 119 Queen’s Drive, Lyall Bay, the foreman engineer at Messrs. Hamilton and McNeil’s works in Waterloo Quay, was struck by a wheel which fell from shafting shortly before ten o’clock yesterday morning. He sustained a lacerated scalp wound. After being taken to the hospital by the Free Ambulance, be was allowed to go to his home.