CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 73, 19 December 1929, Page 13

CITY AND SUBURBAN

HAPPENINGS IN AND ABOUT TOWN

Owing to the elections necessitating business premises being closed yesterday. Petone business people are keeping open until 5.30 p.m. on Saturday.

In yesterday’s news of the wreck of the Manuka it xvas stated that the Tairoa was another steamer wrecked in the same locality (Nugget Point). This was incorrect, as the Tairoa was wrecked off the Clarence River between Cape Campbell and Kaikoura.

As Lord Craigavon intends to leave for the south on the day of his arrival in AVellington, the Mayor (Mr. G. A. Troup) does not think that the occasion is one for a civic welcome. This will be accorded to the distinguished visitor from the North of Ireland on his return to the capital from the South Island.

It is stated that there are signs of perturbation at Petone over the lack of water pressure at a recent fire in the borough. On that occasion the volume and pressure of water was so poor that the fire had almost to be allowed to burn itself out. To this condition of affairs the insurance companies are not blind. It is understood that the weakness is not wholly caused by head pressure at the Koro Koro basin, but is accentuated by corrosion in some of the mains.

The Standing Committee of the New Zealand Alliance on Tuesday passed a resolution deploring ihe loss to New Zealand’s national life sustained through the death of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Cleary, and recorded its admiration and gratitude for his great endeavour in the cause of temperance.

Appreciation of the treatment extended to its employees by the Wellington Harbour Board was expressed in a letter received from the Permanent Employees’ Association by the board at its meeting last night. The association stated that now it was proposed to celebrate the jubilee of the board’s operations, the officers and members wished to convey to the board their sincere appreciation of the treatment accorded the employees over a period of many years. “Our members feel,” ran the letter, “that the board is actuated by a desire to treat them fairly and at the same time conserve the interests of the board’s clients, and we hope to continue giving efficient service, and that amicable relations will always exist between the staff and the board.”

The final ordinary meeting of the City Council for the year will take place to-night

A fracture of the right wrist and injuries to the head, were suffered yesterday evening by W. Conibear, a boy, who resides with his parents at 12 Drake Street, Hataitai, and who fell from a swing at the Kilbirnie Recreation Ground. He was taken to the Hospital by the Free Ambulance.

A decree nisi, to be moved absolute after the expiration of three months was granted to Charlotte Elizabeth Houston, who petitioned for a divorce from her husband, David Houston, on the ground of constructive desertion, in the Supreme Court yesterday.

Peter Brown, a schoolboy who resides at Tennis Court Road, Khandallah, and who attends the Abbott Road School, Ngaio, fell down while playing at the school shortly before 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon, and'suffered from concussion. He was attended to by' the Free Ambulance and taken to the Hospital.

Twelve months’ reformative detention was the punishment imposed on Arthur Willoughby Brassey on three charges of false pretences and one of theft, at Gisborne, by the Chief Justice (Hon. M. Myers) in the Supreme Court yesterday. Counsel for prisoner, Mr. H. F. O’Leary, said that Brassey found himself in his present position not because of any inherent criminal instinct but because he launched out in business on his own account at too early an age. He found himself in the dock through lack of experience. Counsel asked for leniency, and asked that if His Honour could see his way to consider probation, to do so. His Honour stated that prisoner, in addition to the theft, had made a false entry in his bank pass-book, with the intention apparently of misleading his employer and the auditor. The case was not one where the Court could grant probation. His Honour thought justice would be met if prisoner was sentenced to twelve months’ reformative detention.