CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 169, 12 April 1930, Page 13

CITY AND SUBURBAN

IN AND ABOUT: TOWN. r--J

According to a return presented to the city council by the city engineer, the cost of the Island Bay Memorial pavilion or band rotunda was £962.

A practical demonstration of the application of the slogan "Buy New Zealand Goods” was given this week at the Kilbimie Cricket Club’s smoke concert. Guests were informed that everything purchased for the function was a product of local industry. That applied even to the cigarettes.

A wound on the scalp, and concussion, were suffered by C. Adams, a steward on the steamer Tasmania, who fell down in Bond Street at about a quarter to ten last night. He was attended by the Free Ambulance and taken to the hospital.

“An assurance has been secured from the Commissioner of Transport that steps will be taken to have tram-cars brought under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Transport,” said the chairman (Mr. W. O’Callaghan) in his address to the North Island Motor Union yesterday.

At present I am trying to capture a few deer for the Wellington Zoo,” writes Mr. E. Trask, of Paraparaumu, to the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. “There are a few stags about but very poor heads. Stalking is very quiet.”

George Teifer appeared in the Police Court yesterday on charges of having no driver’s license and crossing a railway line at Petone when it was not clear. He was fined £l, with costs, on each count.

When his motor-cycle collided with a tramcar in the city shortly before 6 p.m. yesterday, Samuel Janno, a tiler, who lives in Main Street, Palmerston North, received injuries to 1 his left ankle. He was taken to the hospital by the Free Ambulance.

Remanded last week, Kenneth Hugh Gough disappeared and bls counsel heard no more of him. When charged again in the Police Court yesterday with trespassing on the Hutt Park racecourse, he was fined £5, and costs, in his absence. It was stated that defendant worked as a casual labourer for the Railways Department shovelling coal.

The cost of the work at Sydney Street up to date was asked for by Councillor C. H. Chapman at Thursday’s meeting of the city council. He was informed by the Mayor that the return was lying before him. So far £16,919 has been expended on the big cut, out of an estimate of £20,000.

“If the blocks are not going to be tarred until the old stuff is chipped off.” said an observer yesterday, “it will be ten years before the job is done.” The reference was to the small army of men employed in Courtenay Place chipping off the old tar with picks. The sum of £l5OO has been set aside for this work, of which £928 has already been spent.

The representative of one of the larger Wellington taxi companies stated yesterday that if a serious fare “war” develops most operators will participate, but they will compete only with the modest class of vehicle. He expressed the opinion that drastic fare cutting would result in the withdrawal of the better class of taxis. The motor rate in Wellington has been 2/3 for the first mile and 6d. for every third of a mile thereafter. Some taxis which will now operate for 1/6 for the first mile, and 1/- a mile thereafter, will continue using the meters and will allow the reduced fare by calculation.

The sum of £7OOO has been set down on the city estimates for the widening of Buckle Street. It is to be widened on the southern side by a set-back of 30ft. 6in. This will mean an encroachment to that depth on all the properties between the Basin Reserve aud Taranaki Street, including the Mt. Cook (special) school, the Mt. Cook Police Station, and the Defence Stores. It is proposed to do the work out of relief loan money. At present two cottages are being removed to the new alignment, and reinstated at an estimated cost of £1340/19/-. The practice of putting a grader over a road where loose metal has been laid down, leaving a ridge of metal in the centre of the road, was discussed at the meeting of the North Island Motor Union yesterday. Mr. H. W. Shortt said the practice was a dangerous one, as motor vehicles were very liable to skid over the ridge of the' metal. It should be smoothed out again. Mr. J. V. Wilson and Mr. H. E. Edmunds both said that accidents from this cause were increasing, and the insurance companies were receiving many claims on that account. Mr. A. J. Curtis said the authorities concerned would be liable for damages in case of an accident. —It was decided to write to the Public Works Department and local authorities on the subject.

The cost to date of the preparation of Upper Roxburgh Street for tar-seal-ing has been £6B.

An eleven-year-old boy, Norman McGrath, who lives with his parents at 209 Rintoul Street, fell from a see-saw on which he was playing in the Basin Reserve early yesterday afternoon, and fractured his left le.g. He was attended to by a doctor and then taken to his home by the Free Ambulance.

A further remand until April 18 was granted in the Police Court yesterday in the case where John Andrew Riddell, a salesman, aged 28, was charged with obtaining from Kirkcaldie and Stains Ltd. £6/10/- by false pretences. Detective-Sergeant Holmes intimated that there was a long series of charges pending.

Following is the cost to date of street works in the northern and western sections of the city:—Glenmore Street (widening beyond the gardens), £1806; Glenmore Street (widening horseshoe bend), £3640; Wadestown Road (widening beyond Pitt Street), £3660; Plunket Street (footpath and wall), £7935; Kelburn Parade, £262; Garden Road, £B7.

For being found illegally on the premises of the Imperial Hotel, Elias Connor, Edward William Paine, and John Ramsbottom were each fined ’£2, with costs, in the Police Court yesterday.

The Manawatu Automobile Association yesterday asked the North Island Motor Union to revise its southern boundary. Mr. H. W. Shortt (Wellington) said that the boundaries had already been fixed and he objected to any further encroachment on the Wellington boundary. Mr. E. R. B. Holben (Manawatu) said the boundary was absurd, but Mr. Shortt replied that the boundaries were agreed to in conference. The chairman ruled the matter out of order. Mr. Holben: “We shall bring it up again.”

“I paid a visit to Wainui for the first time in my life,” said Mr. J. G. Miller, of the Masterton hatchery, to the Acclimatisation Society, in a letter read at last night’s meeting. “It does my eyesight good to see our good streams. We have the best liberation system in New Zealand and the best staff, and some of the best streams, and we should tell the people what we have in the Wellington district. One Masterton angler has taken almost 500 fish this season. What would some people in the Old Country give for fishing like this?”

A proposal to constitute separate boards for the control of Queen Margaret College and Scots College was endorsed at the annual meeting of the Queen Margaret College Parents’ Association this week. The gathering was addressed by Mr. J. T. Martin, chairman of the present joint board of governors, who outlined the scheme which was suggested for submission to the Wellington Presbytery. The election of officers for the Parents’ Association resulted as follows:—President, Mr. W. M. Page; vice-president, Mrs. A. H. Johns; hon. secretary and treasurer, Mr. A. H. Hoby; committee, Mesdames H. F. Norman, H. D. Bennett, A. B. Sievwright, S. Eichelbaum. E. F. Richardson, E. P. Hay and Messrs. W. McLay, B. L. Dallard, F. W. Rowley and J. B. Moodie.

A scheme for supplying posters to schools for the purpose of educating children on the subject of “safety first” was brought before the North Island Motor Union yesterday. The scheme was intended to cover ISO 3 schools in the North Island and 1097 in the South Island. The cost was estimated at £5OO a year for the two islands. A sub-committee urged that the strongest argument in favour of the scheme was that if principles of safe road usage were to be inculcated into adults they must start by educating the child. The proposal recommended was to supply posters once to each school, together with a leaflet for the teacher explaining the lesson each poster is to convey. It was agreed to proceed with the scheme and obtaiu designs to be submitted to the next meeting of the executive.