CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 289, 1 September 1933, Page 11

CITY AND SUBURBAN

Happenings About the Town INCIDENTS, OBSERVATIONS The Wellington Hospital Board last evening gave authority to the matroq to engage fifteen new probationers in September. Severe cute on the right arm were received by a man last night when he accidentally put the arm through a closed window of . his .room in a board-ing-house in Cuba Street'. He is Mr. A. H. George, a; salesman. The Free Ambulance took him to the hospital. As the result of a public petition to the Post and Telegraph Department, a new post office will be opened in a building at 90 Aro Street this morning. The post office will serve an area about Aro Street, Mltchelltown, Kelburn Extension, Holloway Road, and Manama Crescent. ■ .

An Organisation to be known as the Wellington Efficiency Society was form ed recently. The objects of the new body,were: "The promotion, of the spirit of better business among members ; the provision of facilities of an educational nature, including lectures on vocational guidance, and the promotion of a better commercial morality.”

The membership of the Wellington Advertising Club has been growing lately, and 30 nominations for membership were recently received. Members of the club are taking a prominent part in the organisation of the Confidence Carnival, and a special committee has been established to evolve ideas for posters and pictorial displays.

Messrs. Brodie, Lomas, and Tomlinson (now principal of the Wairarapa High School) have placed in the Memorial Hall at Wellington College a chair, suitably inscribed, in memory of the late Mr. W. Alexander, for many years a master at the college, according to a report read at yesterday’s meeting of the Wellington College Board of Governors. Messrs. Brodie, Lomas, and Tomlinson were contemporaries of Mr, Alexander for more than 20 years.

By 9 votes to 7, the Wellington Hospital Board last evening decided, on the motion of Mrs. J. K. Preston, that non-resident members of the staff be entitled to free medical attention and treatment at the outpatient and affiliated departments ,an<l to inpatient treatment at half fees. The chairman, Mr. F. Castle, said that, in-Order to give effect to the resolution, it would be necessary for. a new by-law to be drafted and submitted to the Department of Health for approval. ' V

High tributes to Mr. R. Forsyth, London manager for the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, were paid, at the annual meeting of the board in Wellington yesterday. - After the act-ing-chairman, Mr. T. A. Duncan, had eulogised Mr. Forsyth’s services to the pastoralists of the Dominion, a delegate mentioned a cartoon in.“ Punch" relative to Mr. Forsyth. The cartoon showed a man who asked, “What about the Big Five?” and his friend promptly countered with, "What about New Zealand’s Big One?” Mr. Duncan said this about summed up Mr. Forsyth’s value to the meat producers of the- Dominion. ■ l - K*..',:V.' :

Full agreement has been reached'as to wages and working conditions under the Wellington municipal labourers’ award,, after long negotiations. The award itself was adopted in April for another period of twelve months, or until ‘superseded by another award or agreement,! but since that date conditions other than general conditions have been discussed. The result of these' further conferences is that the old award is renewed without any reductions in wages ■ and conditions (other than the 10 per cent, reduction imposed by the general order of 1931), while improyed conditions have been agreed to for certain special work. A recent request by the principal: of the Rongotai B,pys’. College for the erection of permanent laboratories at the college, was referred to at yesterday’s meeting of the Wellington College Board of Governors. A letter was received from the Minister of Education, who said he was aware that conditions regarding accommodation at the college were not ideal. Unfortunately, owing to the prevailing conditions, funds for this work had not been available fh the past, nor did the limited funds placed at his disposal this'year hiake it possible for him to provide a grant at present, as only works of an essential character could be undertaken. He proposed, in the near future, to make a visit to the school,, in order to acquaint himself more fully with the conditions as at present existing.'. '■ ■- ; ■!. ...