CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 220, 13 June 1933, Page 11

CITY AND SUBURBAN

Happenings About the Town

INCIDENTS, OBSERVATIONS

An increase of 4d a pound in the wholesale butter market which was passed on by the grocers yesterday advanced the retail price of butter to 10d a pound.

Slipping on some rails, Mr. G. H. Pointon, a relief worker living at -1 Richmond Street, Petone, fractured his right ankle yesterday morning. After receiving attention from Dr. Donald, was taken to the Wellington Hospital by the Free Ambulance.

The 17th annual meeting of the Dominion Council of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association will be held in Wellington next Tuesday. More than 50 delegates will attend the gathering. During the past year the New Zealand R.S.A. has increased its total of affiliated branches by 15, making the total 71. The active financial membership for the Dominion has increased by more than 45 per cent.-jn the period. The increase is attributed to the awakening of. interest in the association’s activities on behalf of deserving unemployed ex-service men.

Unregistered stray dogs are blamed by the Wellington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for most of the sheep-worrying which has been occurring near Wellington. The society is anxious to prevent damage by marauding dogs in the next lambing season, and asks for the co-operation of dog owners. Notifications regard ing stray arid unregistered dogs will be welcomed by the S.P.C.A., and any reports from the suburbs will be particularly helpful, since the tracing of prowling dogs is a difficult matter.

The difficulty in connection,with the contract for the construction of the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum is likely to be overcome in the near future. The parties concerned in the land adjustments on the Buckle Street frontage (which has been delaying the completion of a proper road access to the site on the eastern side of the carillon tower) met on Saturday in conference with the Acting-Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, as the result of which an amicable settlement is within view.

People passing up and down Willis Street are being intrigued by the glimpse of early Wellington which has been revealed in the removal of L. Dwan and Son’s old wooden building next the Grand Hotel. Through the gap can now be seen the high grassgrown bank which used to slope down toward the seashore in the early days. All along that alignment the bank was cut back to provide depth for the premises on the western side of Willis Street. The spoil was used to make the first reclamation off Clay Point, the site of the present headquarters of the Bank of New Zealand.