City and Suburban

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 256, 25 July 1930, Page 13

City and Suburban

ltems of Interest A memorial service for the late Right Hon. Sir Robert Stout will be held in the Conference Hall of the Dominion Farmers’ Institute on Sunday evening, at 7 o’clock. An Order-in-Council giving formal approval of the raising of a loan of £30,000 by the Wellington City Council for the relief of unemployment appeared in the Gazette last evening. A room has now been opened by the British Israel World Federation, Wellington, to the general public as a reading room, rest room and headquarters for the distribution of books. The room is in the Mercantile and General Building, Panama Street. A seaman, J. McDonald, living at 18 Oriental Terrace, had four fingers-crush-ed when he caught his hand in a winch on the s.s. Kaimai as she was approaching port yesterday. On the ship's arrival at Miramar wharf, McDonald was attended by Dr. Luke, and then taken to the hospital by the Free Ambulance. “The time Is rapidly approaching when we will have to realise that it is not the force of arms which we have to fear, but economic invasion. We in New Zealand would be best prepared for that economic invasion by capitalising the assets which Providence has given to us,” said Mr. H. G. Gribble at the annual dinner last evening of the New Zealand Timber Growers’ Association. Frank McNamara, a labourer, of 7 Malcolm Avenue, stepped in front of a bicycle at the corner of Wakefield and Cuba Streets yesterday morning, and received a lacerated wound to the left arm. The cyclist, a boy aged 13 years, Harold Harris, of 126 Rintoul Street, was removed to his home by the Free Ambulance, suffering from slight shock. In order to clear tip the position with reference to military training as far as the 15th (Coast) Battery, of Wellington, Js concerned, a meeting of all members has been called for Monday next by Captain D. A. Carty, officer commanding the battery. The Defence Department has some valuable guns mounted at Fort Dorset and they will, probably need to be kept in order. It is possible that there may be enough men keen on the work to form a corps to look after the fort equipment, and even to do a little practice on occasions. Compulsory military training has been suspended for twelve months. Speaking to exhibitors at the Winter Show last night, Mr. G. Mitchell, manager, said the show was not a church parade, and they wanted noise and plenty of action. They had had a slight setback owing to counter-attractions and economic conditions. The manufacturers’ exhibition was the best they had ever made, and a Canadian visitor that day had said it was the finest exhibition of its size he had seen. The poultry and dog shows were increasing and improving every year, helped to draw the crowd and show people the goods they made. They wei-o seeking power to raise money to complete the grounds this year or early next year, and that would increase the revenue largely.