25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 182, 29 April 1933, Page 10

25 YEARS AGO

i House Market in Wellington I — — (From "The Dominion,” April 28, 1908) The state of the house market in Wellington is illustrated by tlie receipt of no fewer than 68 applications for leases of tlie eight workers’ dwellings erected by the Government off Coromandel Street. Newtown. The applications will be tested by tlie Land Board this evening, and a ballot will be held on Thursday. The Rev. J. J. North, who is a loader of the nnti-gambling crusade, in Wellington, read a paper on the Gambling Act of last session at the meeting of the Council of Churches last night. Mr. North stated that, this Art had a motto: “The restriction of betting to racecourses.'’ Tlie question of the success of the Act. was one that was ripe for review. i (hi Saturday afternoon when the blizzard which has done so much damage throughout England, was at its height, tlie American liner St. Paul, outward bound from Southampton, crushed in tlie port side of the second-class crniier Gladiator, off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. Tlie Gladiator heeled over and was beached in about twenty minutes. * * «. A targe new ease lias been placed in rhe Dominion Musi tirn containing a variety of Maori relics which have just liren received by Hie Director (Mr. A. llimiilton) and which are of very special interest. Among tiiem are a number of meri's. one of which is of a very unusual shape, having one side almost rounded, while the other edge is sharpened. It was possibly so made in order that be- i sides serving as a bludgeon, it might be : used for an vvl-kil’er. to which instrn- ; inonl it show* a marked I'esoniblaiice. ;