City and Suburban

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 110, 3 February 1931, Page 11

City and Suburban

- ■ Items of Interest -

Three hundred and ten new members were elected by the Wellington Automobile Club last evening.

Wellington Boys’ and. Girls’ Colleges, Rongotai College and the Technical College will open again to-day after the uammer holidays. The primary schools opened yesterday.

There is to he another conference over the Mayoralty between the Civic League and the Wellington Ratepayers’ Association this evening.

The men engaged on the concrete facing work at the bottom of Carlton Gore Road had difficult work yesterday, as. , the high wind blew sand and cement in all directions while it was being handled.

The Southern Cross Junior will not be seen flying again in New Zealand. Mr. Guy Menzies stated yesterday that it would not fly until it had been overhauled in Sydney. After that he had other work for it to do.

Last night at the meeting of the Winter Show Association it was decided to send a letter of condolence to the family of the late Mr. J. L. Bruce, of the Agricultural Department, whose death occurred recently. The chairman, Mr. D. J. McGowan, said Mr. Bruce had been of great assistance to them in carrying through the stock shows.

“We cannot understand It," said Mr. J. Venables in addressing the City Council’s Works Committee yesterday. “There are small streets of no relative importance leading off Evans Bay, all decently surfaced, yet Tasman Street, which is carrying a great deal of the north and south traffic, has never been touched.”

“Such is the camber on Tasman Street,” said a contractor, Mr. H. Meyer, when addressing the Works Committee of the City Council yesterday, “that when one of my lorries with a load on gets down the side it cannot get up again. You may think that it’s ’exaggeration, but it is the truth. There is no street in Wellington city more in need of attention than Tasman Street.”

For failing to appear in answer to a summons to serve on the Grand Jury when the sessions of the Supreme Court started yesterday, Archibald Percival Seivester was fined £5, unless cause is shown before the end of the session.

Through being struck by a motor-car shortly after seven o’clock last evening, Howard Jameson, schoolboy, aged ten years, living at 168 Hutt Road, Petone, received injuries to his head and a fractured left thigh. After being attended by Dr. Hodge, of Petone, he was taken to the hospital by the Free Ambulance.

A lighting scheme, including the provision of two light towers, is being prepared for the Winter Show Stadium by Mr. G. Lauchlan, manager of the City Council electric light department It is said that the scheme will make it the best lighted ground in Australia or New Zealand.

The Winter Show Association executive last night received a letter from the Wellington Model Engineering Association asking to be included in the Winter Show section, as it felt that it could make a more ambitious display with moving exhibits. It was hoped that the Show Association would provide materials for the stand. The matter was referred to the stands and space committee.

The necessity for white lines at the corner of Bowen Street and The Terrace was stressed at a meeting of the Wellington Automobile dub last evening. “That corner puts the wind up me more than any other in Wellington,” said Dr. H. Graham Robertson. It was decided to ask the City Council to paint lines there.

It cost £74 to remove the drift sand from the main road in Worser Bay during the year 1927-28. In 1928-29 the cost rose to £Bl/1/2; in 1929-30 to £94 18/6; and in 1930-31 (ten months only) to £llO/14/-. These figures were quoted at a meeting of the City Council’s Works Committee yesterday. Councillor R. A. Wright, the chairman, said that it was only too evident that the cost of removing the sand was growing each year, and they would have to do something to remedy the trouble.

The Hamilton Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club wrote to last evening’s * meeting of the N.ZAAA inquiring it starting blocks are permitted for use at any meeting held under the rules of the N.Z.A.A.A. A reply is to be sent that blocks are not permissible. Mr. H. Amos said no records were recognised by the International Athletic Federation where starting blocks were used.

Now that the new school year has opened some parents have had an unpleasant surprise. The necessity for economy has been preached of late, but it is being, found that the school books which were used by an older boy or girl two or three years back for, say, standard three are now out of date. New arithmetics, readers, etc., have been brought jn. and what with new exercise and drawing books parents find themselves called upon to spend from 10/- to 15/- on each child.

An excellent specimen of joinery work by boys is to be seen in the new wing at the Technical College which will ba opened to-day. It is the door to the masters’ room, which was made of solid oak/ by boys who have not yet been apprenticed. It was made under the supervision of the instructor, Mr. T. H. Rosser, and it is a very fine piece of work, the joins in the timber being beautifully done. The panelling of the room is also to be done by the boys attending the woodwork classes at the Technical College.

The new pavilion at Wakefield Park is now practically complete, and will be formally opened early next month, possibly on the first Saturday. This well-appointed pavilion not only provides good accommodation for the golfers using the municipal links, but it will provide rooms for afternoon tea, suppers, and even weddings. Tenders have been called for the lease of the pavilion, and it is hoped that within a week or two all arrangements will be made for its opening. The new pavilion, which is in red brick and of picturesque design, was erected for the city corporation by the Fletcher Construction Company.

The property on the northern side of Worsen Bay, including what was for many years known as the “Green Shed,” and the block of land surrounding it, has been acquired by the City Corporation from the Post and Telegraph Department for the sum of £7OO. This properly was originally acquired by the department in connection with its cablelaying operations in Cook Strait. Frequently the steamers doing the cablelayiiig or repairing had to come in to Worser Bay for shelter, and to take in supplies, so the shed was erected to house cable and such gear as was required for the'work. As for some years past the cable work around the coast of New Zealand has been done by the Pacific Cable Company’s steamer Iris there was no need of the depot at Worsen Bay. The shed is now leased to the Worser Bay Boating Club.