25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 48, 19 November 1932, Page 10

25 YEARS AGO

City’s First Motor-Brougham From “The Dominion.” November 20. 1907. The motor brougham—another nail in the equine coffin —has come to Wellington. The first of its class to travel the city was observed “doing” the main streets yesterday with an air that made the horse cabs and hansoms look quite old-fashioned. The widening by the Government of the Hutt Road in connection with the railway-widening operations will necessitate alterations to the City Council's water main from Wainui. » • • The Phaeton carriage owned by Mrs. Valentine, of Oriental Bay, collapsed in Courtenay Place shortly before sixo’clock last evening owing to the main supports of the carriage giving away. The only occupants of the phaeton were the owner and the man who was driving, neither of whom suffered any injury, thanks chiefly to the docile behaviour of the horse. The hurtling dust of windy days in Wellington that dries up all the softer feelings of human beings, is to be seriously combated along those streets traversed by the electric cars. The electric water-sprinkler ordered by the City Council some time ago has been delivered at the Newtown car shed this week.

New Zealand is suffering in silence an acute fruit famine. From remarks made in Hastings lately by the North Island poraologist, Mr. W, A. Boucher, It appears that the famine conditions will continue for another year or two. They are attributed to the exclusion from the town market of pest-infected fruit