CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 301, 15 September 1933, Page 13

CITY AND SUBURBAN

Happenings About the Town INCIDENTS, OBSERVATIONS The steamer Wainui, which is due at Wellington to-day from Melbourne, via Lyttelton, is reported to be bringing 1900 cases of South Australian oranges and mandarins for discharge here. Applications are to be called from members of the corporation service for the position of traffic inspector at a commencing salary of £225. An employee of the Transport Department is to act temporarily for one month. Authority was granted by the City Council last night for survey work to be undertaken at the South Karori Valley in connection with the extension of the sewer from the septic tank to the sea.

While walking along Lambton Quayearly yesterday afternoon, Mrs. J. Dawson, who lives at 38 Majoribanks Street, collapsed. She was removed to the Central Hotel and was later taken to the Hospital by the Free Ambulance.

“Were the opossums skinned when you saw them?” asked counsel of a witness in the Police Court yesterday. Witness: “Skun”? Counsel: “Yes, were they skinned?” Witness: “Yes, they were skun.”

The offer of the Wellington Automobile Club to erect street signs directing traffic to the suburbs and places of interest in the city has been accepted by the City Council, the chief traffic inspector bo arrange for the supervision of the erection of the signs. '

The City Council last night adopted a recommendation of the by-laws committee to allow a 50 per cent, rebate in stand license fees to the carriers occupying the Clyde Quay stand for the current year, as the council is put to no expense to provide a telephone at the stand.

A motion emphatically protesting against the system of rationing teachers was unanimously carried at the last meeting of the Island Bay Home School Association. It was considered that the constant changing of teaching staffs was not in the best interests of the scholars.

“He has a bad list for a young man of 25; apparently drink is his trouble,” said Sub-Inspector Martin in the Police Court yesterday when Patrick Joseph Ryan, a labourer, was charged with assaulting Anthony Thomas Cooper during a quarrel in a hotel. Ryan was fined £3 and costs, in default 14 days, by the magistrate, Mr. E. Page. Tenders were received by the City Council last evening for the necessary alterations to the Miramar Town Hall, which is to be converted into a public library for the district. These alterations consist of the provision of partitions, the erection of shelving, and the general adaptation of the premises to library purposes. Miss G. Kerry, who has for the past four years been associated with public library work in the city, has been appointed librarian at Miramar. Mr. James Norrie, public librarian, stated yesterday that he hoped the new district library would be in active operation before tbe end of the year. A “Tin Hat” club has been formed in Wellington under the wing of the Returned Soldiers’ Association. The encouragement of comradeship and the provision of entertainment for returned soldiers is one of the objects of the club. The following office-bear-ers have been elected:—Patron, Colonel H. E. Avery; president, Colonel A. Cowles; vice-presidents, Colonel R. S. -McQuarrle and Mr. W. Perry; hon. secretary, Mr. T. S. Philpott; hon. treasurer, Mr. W. Rowe; auditor, Mr. Cooper; committee, Messrs. D. S. Hood, J. N. Wickens, B. Witten-Hannah, R. Walpole, T. S. Whaler, L. Kiven, S. H. Boag, C. H. Chambers, A. S. Blackie, G. Holloway, and the executive of the R.S.A., ex officio. Members of the recently-formed Magicians’ Society with a knowledge of the art of Houdini had a rare opportunity two nights ago to make practical use of whatever skill they might possess. The society had been holding its regular meeting in au upstairs room in premises in Manners Street. When they left the meeting-room and made their way down the stairs it was found that their means of exit was blocked by an iron grill gate which had been closed and locked while the members of the society were meeting. Members pooled their lock-picking knowledge es they stood behind the grill contemplating their plight. They managed to open the grill, but the method of their “escape” they are keeping a secret.