City and Suburban

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 61, 5 December 1930, Page 13

City and Suburban

— Items of Interest ———*

The displacement of the dump at the top of Crawford Road with a green swarc and a plantation is referred to by tin Civic League in its annual reP° rt as £ ■. creditable piece of work.

Satisfaction at the action of the City Council, in repairing Moir Street and in taking over the right-of-way Iron Lloyd Street to Moir Street is expressec in the annual report of the Civic League

Steady progress is being made with the construction of the new reinforcedconcrete Kelburn Viaduct. Work is now proceeding on the deck of the central span. Upland Road will have to be regraded slightly before the bridge is used.

It was announced at last night’s meeting of the Karori Progressive Association that the Kelburn-Karori viaduct would be reopened for two-way traffic on Monday next. -v..

Miss P. Bennett, the Marlborough Aero Club’s well-known pilot, left Rongotai-for Blenheim shortly after noon yesterday with her mother as a passenger. They arrived at Blenheim forty minutes later. ,

Mr. R. Spong, a pupil of the Wei-' lington Aero Club, was yesterday passed by the Director of Air Services (WingCommander S. Grant-Dalton) for his A pilot’s license.

Entries announced for the band earnival to be held in Wellington in February comprise 35 full bands, 318 soloists, 36 quartets, and 17 trombone trios. There are 58 entries for the New Zealand cornet championship. The question of broadcasting is to be discussed with the Radio Broadca.sting Company.

Receiving some of the contents of the cement gun in his face about 4.45 p.m. yesterday while engaged on the new Mount Victoria tunnel, a workman residing at 8 Ira Street, Miramar, suffered numerous punctured wounds on his. face. He was removed to the hospital by the Free Ambulance.

At the annual meeting of the British Manufacturers’ Association yesterday it was reported that during the yearCaddresses had been given regularly to the senior pupils of primary- and secondary schools, and the council felt that this work would be of great value in the future.

Concerned about the conditions of the city’s passenger transport services, particularly the motor-bus service as it affects the outer suburbs, the Civie League, in its annflal report, reiterates its demand that an expert bus manager be appointed, to institute adequate and economical services, as extensions of the present tramway service.

A record number of cases was dealt with by the Free Ambulance yesterday. The staff of the ambulance attended to 83 cases during thf day. The major •';/ portion of this number were transport.;;'; cases, 59 patients being shifted from the"s> various hospital buildings to the reno- << rated and enlarged Ewart Hospital in, . Coromandel Street. Only an exception- -i. ally efficient staff could have handled such a volume Of-work as this, as .sonic of the cases were from outside the city."'.;’? The eighty-third case was a call to. Otaki last night.’ * ■? i

The lure which golf has for mankind ' was humorously referred to by Dr. J. S.‘ Elliott in opening the Terrace Garden miniature golf links yesterday afternoon. The game, he said, had undoubtedly be-come-the vogue throughout the world;, he had even heard it described as a disease. One of the symptoms was an increased thirst, and another a disinclination to work, though it had to be admitted that some business men were energetic enough to ring up from the club houses to inquire how .their offices were getting on.