CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 185, 3 May 1933, Page 11

CITY AND SUBURBAN

Happenings About the Town INCIDENTS, OBSERVATIONS Consequent on recent currency adjustments the price of petrol in Wellington city was reduced a penny per gallon on .Monday. First grade spirit is now selling at 1/40, and second grade at 1/9 per gallon. A property with a frontage of 63 feet lo Dixon Street, and a depth of 50 feet, has been purchased for about £15,000 from Middows Bros, and Taylor, Ltd., by Alacduffs, Ltd. 'The purchase will give Alacduffs, Ltd., control of a large block. 'The Wellington Chamber of Commerce at. last evening's meeting received advice from the Chief Postmaster that the contracts for the conveyance of mails between Auckland and Vancouver and Wellington and Sa Francisco had been extended from April 1 indefinitely on the present terms, subject to termination on three months’ notice by either side.

•‘As far as teaching represents a handing down of knowledge from a higher to a lower level, there can be no justification whatever for stocking the fupper shelves with the latest advances iu science and the lower ones with wornout and discarded knowledge,” said Air. T. A. Glendinning, Al. Sc. in an address to the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry last evening.

“We all know what boys are,” said Mr. W. P. Rollings, counsel iu the Supreme Court yesterday, when endeavouring to impress upon the jury the recklessness of a boy while riding upon a bicycle. “All you gentlemen have been boys yourselves—some of yon, probably, long before I was. . . .” “Not merely probably,” commented the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) smilingly.

Some humour was infused into it meeting in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Clyde Quay, last evening by a man who adopted taclies more in keeping with a general election than with the quieter atmosphere of campaigning for municipal honours. The meeting was addressed by candidates supported by the Civic League and Ratepayers’ Association, and one member of the audience interrupted the speakers with some vigour.

A dog which bore the signs of starvation came into possession of the TailWaggers’ Club a few days ago. In view of the condition of the animal it is thought that it had been tied up without food rather than turned loose on the streets where it could have at least warded off starvation. The secretary of the Tail-Waggers’ Club said yesterday that, he had not previously seen a dog in New Zealand which had showed signs of such acute starvation.

'The tea-room and restaurant workers’ dispute, which had been under consideration by the Conciliation Council in Wellington was to have been resumed yesterday, has been adjourned for the proposals ou either side to be considered. Matters have not been completed and the hearing will be resumed on Alay 9. 'Hie employers made application for a new award, and while several matters were agreed upon, no agreement was reached regarding wages, overtime, etc. At the conclusion of the Rotary Club’s luncheon yesterday the president, Dr. D. Afaedonald Wilson, made congratulatory reference to the good work done by two members of the club, Air. F. AV. Vosselcr (president of the Federated Tramping Clubs) and Air, 11. Anderson (president of the Tararua Tramping Club), in connection with the search for the lost trampers in the 'Tararua Ranges. They had worked hard night and day organising the search, and he complimented them upon that work and its results. A number of applications have been made from unemployment camps to the New Zealand Football Association and afiilialed associations for footballs. 'The New Zealand council wrote asking the Unemployment Board what course should bo followed, and the Commissioner, Air. G. C. Godfrey, has replied (hat applications should be forwarded Io bis office for a recommendation. Applications should be supported by the overseers in charge of Ihe camps. 'There are approximately 75 single men’s camps throughout New Zealand at the present time.

"AVe are in danger of losing our balance in respect, to research,” declared Mr. T. A. Glendiunlng, Al. Sc., in his address to lhe Now Zealand Institute of Chemistry last evening. "Every little investigation is labelled by this name; even literary men refer to the hunting up of references as research instead of lhe old familiar name of ‘devilling.’ and the man in the si reef, has decided to include ‘research’ along with inflation and deflation among the nostrums for getting ns out: of our economic mess. By all means let us research, but for heaven’s sake let: us be done witli the contemptible habit, of calling little things by big mimes.”