CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 64, 9 December 1930, Page 13

CITY AND SUBURBAN

= Happenings in and About Wellington «

A donation of £5O for the Mayor's fund for the relief of unemployment was received from the Governor-General and Lady Bledisloe yesterday. The fund now stands at £lOO4/14/9.

The Wellington Automobile Club executive last evening elected 77 new members.

Slipping on the footpath at the corner of Hill Street and Molesworth Street, just after 1 p.m. yesterday, T. O’Ara, a labourer, living at Mara Street, Trentham, fractured his left wrist. . The Free Ambulance removed him to the hospital.

A collision between a motor-cycle and a motor-van in Glasgow Street, about 8 o’clock yesterday morning, resulted in J. T. Corbett, a grocer, living at 23 Martin Square, receiving a dislocated left ankle. He was taken to the hospital by the Free Ambulance.

The Wellington Automobile Club has decided to write to the Railway Department stating that the red lens on the warning signal at the Petone railway crossing on the Hutt Road is considered to be much too dark, also to suggest an improvement in the position of the lights and to request that the department’s, buses do not stop in front of them.

Appreciation of treatment accorded him in England recently by the Royal Automobile Club was expressed by Mr. H. W. Lawrence at a meeting last evening of the Wellington Automobile Club. He was concerned in a serious motor mishap and after he left for New Zealand the club took the ease up and settled it later with Mr. Lawrence. Members of the Wellington Automobile Club going abroad carry Home a letter of introduction to the Royal Automobile Club, with which they are enrolled as visiting members.

The High Commissioner for New Zealand, Sir Thomas Wilford, retains his interest in the Wellington Automobile Association as a financial member, a letter containing his annual subscription being received at the executive meeting of the club last evening.

Eighty people are fed daily at the Wellington City Mission's soup kitchen and other institutions. A report just issued by the City Mission refers to the problem of feeding the unemployed. With Christmas at hand, the soup kitchen is supplying more men than were applying when it opened for the winter. During a recent four-weekly period 675 basins of soup were issued. In addition meals were issued to old people and supplied at the hostel. The aggregate is 500 a week or 2000 a month.

Attention to the situation of the public library in Harrison Street, Brooklyn, is drawn in the annual report of the Brooklyn Municipal Electors’ Association. “The building, which is cramped for space and dingy, has long since outlived its usefulness,” the report states. “A more commodious building, on a central site is long overdue, and it is recommended that the matter be placed before the Libraries Committee immediately.”

Reference to the health week campaigns which the City Council at one time used to conduct is made in the annual report of the Brooklyn Municipal Electors’ Association. “For some reason or other this clean-up week has been forgotten,” the report states. “It is felt by the association that a revival of the campaign is long overdue and we suggest that as a commencement the City Council be requested to clean up the approach to Brooklyn. Private enterprise has already considerably improved the route and the City Council should set a good example and do likewise to our main gate.”