City and Suburban

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 105, 28 January 1931, Page 11

City and Suburban

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“Of all sportsmen cricketers are hardest to please over their grounds,” said Mr. C. W. Corner, Napier, in addressing the conference of park superintendents in Wellington yesterday.

Suffering from a lacerated wound to the left knee through falling off a fence and striking a gas meter, Pat Sherwood, a child aged six, of 29 Byron Street, Miramar, was taken to the hospital' by the Free Ambulance yesterday morning. He was later removed to his home.

“After heavy rain take your men off every other job and put them on rolling, as that is the time you will get a far better surface for all summer sports than you will for double the labour in dry weather,” said Mr. C. W. Corner, in addressing the conference of park superintendents held in Wellington yesterday. As a result of a collision between a motor-van and a motor-cycle at the corner of Tory and College Streets at 6.10 p.m. yesterday, Miss F. Heyworth, a shop assistant, living at 15 Kenwyn Terrace, received a severe lacerated wound to the right leg and suffered also from shock. She was attended to by the Free Ambulance and removed to the hospital. “What we want is morn elasticity in our labour Jaws,” said Mr. C. W. Corner, Napier, in addressing the conference of park superintendents yesterday. “In Napier we have had a great deal of exceptionally dry winds and very warm weather, and I have often thought how much more convenient it would be if we were able to allow the men time off in the middle of the day and bring them back in the cool of the evening.” The chairman, Mr. B. G. H. Burn, was inclined to the opinion that Mr. Corner was trenching on dangerous ground.

Mrs. N. Miller, of “Waitangi,” Boulcott Street, suffered a laceration of the scalp and shock, following upon a collision between two motor-cars on the Hutt Road, at Thorndon, at 4.40 p.m. yesterday. After being attended to by the Free Ambulance she was taken to the hospital.

The electric linesmen's award for the northern industrial district, which was made by the Arbitration Court on December 17 last, was considered at a meeting of the Advisory Board of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation at Wellington yesterday morning. The dissenting opinion of the employers’ representative on the court, Mr. W. Cecil Prime, against the increase of minimum wage rates under the present economic circumstances of New Zealand, was heartily endorsed.

An exhibition of children’s work will be held in the Newtown Library to-mor-row and on Friday. The entries represent a variety of hobbies, and the competition is open to any child under 16 years of age.

An exhibit of eight flowering heads on one stem of the Australian “Banksia Grandis” was shown in the conference hall at the Dominion Farmers’ Institute yesterday. Following the opening of the horticultural conference a brief address was given by Mr. E. Phillips Turner, Director of Forestry, who said that when the depression had passed farmers would once more be buying trees for various purposes. He urged nurserymen to study improvements in native flora in preference to exotics, and referring to the “Banksia Grandis,” said it was a novelty, but for beauty was not to be compared with the pohutukawa, which he would rather have seen exhibited at the conference.

F. Bowker, a carpenter living at 26 Charlotte Avenue, Brooklyn, received bruises to his right arm and left side, and suffered from shock as the result of a collision between a motor-van and a motor-cycle at the corner of Stout and Ballance Streets at 9.50 a.m. yesterday. He was taken to his home by the Free Ambulance.

The v ai 'memorial carillon has readied Wellington piecemeal and in all 156 separate packages were shipped from London. The erection of the structure at Mount Cook can be commenced immediately the contract is let. Tenders close next Monday. The final shipment by the Ruahine comprised 36 packages, including 22 bells, the playing clavier, clappers, the power unit, and the automatic playing apparatus, and about 13 cwt. of pneumatic piston equipment.

A call was received by the Fire Brigade at 8.49 p.m. yesterday, to deal with an outbreak of fire at an eight-roomed , apartment house, No. 41 Webb Street, The fire was confined to the tower portion of the building, which is of two stories and constructed of wood vid iron. Three of the four looms on the giound floor, together wru their confute, were damaged by fire and water; the other suffered slight damage by smoke. Those on the first floor, with their contents, were slightly damaged by heat and smoke.

Bruises on both thighs and a lacerated wound to the left elbow were received by G. 0. Howe, of 11 Barton Terrace, a cart-driver employed by the Wellington City Council, in Wilson Street at 8.25 a.m, yesterday. As the result of the horse taking fright and bolting, s wheel passed over his body. He was removed to the hospital by the Free Ambulance.

Reference was made at the Horticultural Conference yesterday to the cessation of the Forest Service from competition with nurserymen. The Forestry Committee said it was making its first report since the State Service retired from competition. The department closed down too late in the season to make any appreciable effect on the trade, and that, combined with the lower prices for the Dominion’s exports and the high cost for fencing materials, had militated against any extension of trade. Smaller form lots and shelter lots had been in good demand. There appeared to have been some shortages in large sizes in some districts. There was still keen competition from plantation boards and others.