City and Suburban

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 50, 22 November 1930, Page 13

City and Suburban

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A deputation from the Civic League is to wait upon the Mayor, Mr. G. A. Troup, on Monday to ask him to reconsider his decision not to stand for the office in April next. So cut up and dusty is the new Seaview Road at Eastern Hutt that 50 per cent, of the motor traffic has reverted to the use of the old Gracefield and Park Roads. A fire iu Coruhill Street called the brigade out at 6.50 last evening. The outbreak occurred in a two-storied brick building occupied by William Marks and used as a radio apparatus factory, the owners being Bethune and Hunter. Slight damage by fire and water was done to the ground floor and its contents. The upper story suffered from heat and smoke. The stock and plant are insured in the Guardian Office. The planet Venus, which was a prominent and brilliant object in the western pky not long ago, has been moving toward the sun ever since October, and setting at a less interval after' sunset each day. It reaches the sun to-day, and its period as an evening star, technically as ■ well as practically, has come to an end.' Astromoners say that Venus to-day is in inferior conjunction with the sun. Now that the appointment of Sir. Harold Beauchamp, Mr. G. A. Troup, and Mr. G. Shirtcliffe as trustees of '. the . National Art Gallery and Dominion Mu-, seum has been gazetted a meeting of the board will be called as soon as the Act-., ing-Prime Minister is well enough to convene it. Matters of first consideration, will be an arrangement to call for tenders for the demolition of the old gaol premises at Mount Cook, and the subof plans for the carillon tower and sanctioning the calling for fenders for its erection.