City and Suburban

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 65, 10 December 1930, Page 13

City and Suburban

- Items of Interest —

The share of the Wellington South African War Veterans’ Association in the proceeds of Rose Day, November 7, is £55. The report to be submitted at the annual meeting of the association next Monday shows a credit of £163. During the year £25 was distributed in cash grants to members, and £l4 was spent in comforts distributed at the hospitals.

The City Council has a resolution on its minutes that petrol supplier for all departments shall be obtained from one source. Councillor W. H. Bennett has given notice of motion for to-morrow’s meeting of the council to rescind that motion.

“Brooklyn—the only suburb that has not a footpath to the main road,” said a speaker at the Brooklyn Electors’ Association’s annual meeting last night. Mr. H. R. Wright: “We’re paying rates for a Ngaio hall, but we have not got a footpath.”

A remark was made at the meeting last night to set up an unemployment committee that the greatest difficulty was to fit the proper peg in the proper hole. Another delegate present spok of a man who went to do some gardening work.' On arriving in the garden he said he had never seen a garden so full of onions inhis life, and dug up all the man’s bulbs.