City, and Suburban

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 52, 25 November 1930, Page 11

City, and Suburban

items of Interest -

The city coat of arms for the new milk station in Tory Street is to be made by pupils of the Technical College.

The breaking-up ceremony of the Wellington Technical College will take place in. the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall on December 18.

Falling from a scaffold at the Hataitai end of the Mount Victoria Tunnel, G. Smith, a labourer, received concussion and injuries to his right leg at about 3.30 yesterday afternoon. He was taken to the public hospital by the Free Ambulance.

The attendance at the Boys’ Institute baths during the last four weeks showed an increase of 283 on that for the previous month. The institute gymnasium has recently been improved by the addition of apparatus.

".in view of the very uncertain spring weather in Wellington the staff have decided in future to hold the sports in the first term of the year, probably about the middle of April,” stated the director of the Technical College, Mr. J. H. Howell; at a meeting of the board yesterday. “By that time,” he added, “the new hurdling grass track and cinder running track should be sufficiently consolidated to allow hard practice, and when this is the case the athletes of the school should show marked improvement.”

At the conclusion of the Civic League deputation to the Mayor yesterday morning, there was desultory reference to the office of deputy-Mayor. Mr. Troup stated that there was already a deputyMayor, but there were certain duties the Council could not very well ask a de-puty-Mayor to undertake regularly for financial reasons. There was no honorarium paid him, and under the law, there was no provision for such payment. “Besides,” said Mr. Troup, “there are certain things that a mayor wants to do in his own way, and if he goes away they are done in some other way, and that is not always satisfactory.”

The annual report of the Seatoun Presbyterian Church submitted at the meeting last week showed an income of £895 and a debit balance of £25. The ladies' guild was responsible for raising £228. The election of managers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: —Messrs. B. Anderson, 8. W. Cooper, A. Dougall, A. Forbes, H. G. V. Green, A. Duthie, B. A. C. Herapath, G. T. Kellaway, A. McGregor, R. Scott, C. McFarlane, A. P. Smith, and T. M. McDonald. Mr. B. Anderson, secretary, and Mr. A. Forbes, treasurer, were reappointed.

Reporting to the Technical College Board of Governors last evening the director, Mr. J. H. Howell, said that on Monday, November 10, a visit was paid to the new workshop by representatives of the master plasterers. The attendance was smaller than expected, but those present expressed themselves as being both surprised and pleased at the variety and quality of the work done. Mr. Andrew Fletcher stated that it had been markedly beneficial to the apprentices of his firm, and generously offered to present for the use of the class a bench where templates could be constructed without disturbing the work in progress on the plasterers’ benches.

Warm appreciation of the training apprentices receive at the Wellington Technical College was expressed b. a builder in a letter received by the board last evening. “I have one of your boys at present working for me. He is now in his third year, and I have much pleasure in adding my congratulations to you and your staff for the very wide range oi knowledge in connection with the trade imparted to the boys,” he wrote. “My work is nearly all cottage building in brick or wood, and I can, with confidence, give my apprentice any work from foundations to finishing, knowing that he will find some way out of any corner he may get it. . . . When work brightens up I hope to take another apprentice, and will then take advantage of inquiring at the Technical College.”