City and Suburban

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 62, 6 December 1930, Page 11

City and Suburban

Items of Interest

Twenty-thre. have registered their name# at the Joonconville Town Board as unemployed. This represents the number out of work within the Town Board’s district.

Knocked off his bicycle by a motorcar at the corner of Ghuznee Street and Willis Street at about 6.30 evening, John Thomas Mills, a bootmaker living at 32 Marion Street, received slight concussion, an incised wound on the forehead, and a contused wound on the scalp. He was removed to the hospital by the Free Ambulance.

Many a motor driver has been taxed by traffic inspectors on point duty in the city for not hurrying across an intersection, but the tables were turned to some extent at a rush hour recently when a traffic inspector’s motor-cycle stalled in the centre of the Manners Street-Cuba Street intersection, and traffic stopped completely while he restarted.

A short-circuit in a motor in the bindery of Messrs. C. M. Banks’s printing works, Thorndon Quay, caused a fire which turned • the brigade out at 8.26 last evening. Had it not been that an executive member of the staffff who was on the premises at the time heard the crackling the outbreak would have been a much more serious one on account of the amount of paper which was on that floor. The brigade was quickly on the scene, and no damage was done.

At the Teachers’ Training College yesterday morning, prior to the “break-up” for the Christmas-New Year vacation, a presentation was made to Mr. L. J. Watkin, art master at the college, who is retiring from , the teaching profession. The gift comprised a collection of art material, which was presented on behalf of the students by Mr. F. Cormack, the retiring president of the Training College Students’ Association. Hearty cheers and musical honours accompanied the presentation, Mr. Watkin expressed his appreciation, saying it had been a privilege to work in the college in the ten years he had been there, and it was a pleasure to know' that his -work had been appreciated. At the conclusion of the ceremony Mr. Watkin was carried round the hall shoulder high.

A start has been made already with the improvement of Raroa Road, working up from the Chaytor Street end toward the top of the rise. On account of this work it will be necessary to divert as much traffic aa possible back to the old channel via Kelburn viaduct. Because of the possible unsafely of that bridge the City Council, on the advice of the city engineer, recently decreed that not more than, one vehicle should cross the bridge at the one time, and . a further restriction was made that only city-bound traffic should be allowed to use the viaduct, all other traffic proceeding westward to use Raroa Road. Now that the new work on that road presents obstacles to traffic the viaduct is to bo opened to two-way traffic once more, but the one-vehiele-at-a-time rule is to hold, the control day and night to be regulated 'by light signals, green and red, in order that there can be no possibility of traffic meeting on tist bridge.