CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 183, 1 May 1933, Page 11

CITY AND SUBURBAN

Happenings About the Town

INCIDENTS, OBSERVATIONS

As the result of falling down some steps ou Saturday afternoon, Mr. J. Henderson, a plasterer, who lives at 52 Totara Terrace, Lower Hutt, was admitted to Hie Hospital suffering from a fracture of his right leg. Ho was attended to by the Free Ambulance.

Following a collision on Saturday morning at the corner of the Mount Victoria tunnel road and Moxbttm Avenue, between a motor-cycle and a motor-car, Mr. Thomas Marshall, of la Bridge Street, received a fracture of his right leg. Mr. Marshall, who was riding the motor-cycle, was taken to the Hospital by tiie Free Ambulance.

Falling into a pond in a garden ou Saturday morning, Thomas Simmonds, a sebooiboy, who lives at. 81) Daniell Street, received a severe lacerated wound ou his right leg. He was attended to by the Free Ambulance and taken to the Hospital.

Severe scalds to bis right arm aud bis left leg were received on Saturday evening by Bobby Dick, aged 2. who lives with his parents at 26 Standen Street, Karori, when lie pulled a kettle of boiling water from the range. He was attended to by the Free Ambulance and taken to Hie Hospital.

injuries to the head aud concussion were received by Air. F. Doreen, a waterside worker, living at Houghton Bay Road, when lie xvas knocked down by a motor-car at the intersection of Taranaki and 'Wakefield Streets at 8.25 a.m. on Saturday. He was attended to by the Free Ambulance and taken to tiie Hospital.

“We arc not. 100 years old, but we have all the facilities possessed by countries hundreds of years older,” said tlie Hon. A. Hamilton in the Town Halt yesterday, when addressing those present at the Salvation Army Jubilee Congress service. Therefore, Air. Hamilton added, it was onl.y rigid: that there should be occasions, such as tiie present one, when people should gal her together and thank God for what He had given His people.

About, eighty people attended a meeting in the Labour Hall, Petone, yesterday to celebrate May Day. The Mayor of Petone, Mr. D. AlcKenzie, presided. The speakers were ATessrs. J. B. Young (Friends of the Soviet. Union), H. Al. Laird (Communist Party), J. Hourigan (Freezing Workers), AfcMillan (United Front), and H. Fairclough (unemployed). Several resolutions dealing with trade relations with Russia Mere carried, aud fraternal greetings were conveyed to other Friends of the Soviet Union throughout the M’orld. At tiie conclusion, “The Red Flag" was sung with the audience standing.

In a widely-distributed pamphlet issued in Hie interest of the Labour candidates for Hie City Council mention is made of what Hie Christchurch City Council, through its Labour Mayor, has been aide to do as against M’liat. Wellington lias done. It has been pointed out. by one candidate not on Hie Labour ticket, that the Christchurch City Council has not nearly the responsibilities Hint devolve on Hie Wellington City Council. It lias a Tramways Board and n Water and Drainage Board, which function on behalf of two of the main services, apart altogether from the council, whilst tiie electric light and power service lias always been supplied by the Government, generating station at Lake Coleridge. Moreover, Christchurch, being quite flat, lias never bad to contend M'itb tiie engineering diflicultics which face the Wellington engineers daily.