CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 70, 15 December 1933, Page 13

CITY AND SUBURBAN

Happenings About the Town

INCIDENTS, OBSERVATIONS

, The Smith Family Joy-spreaders’ Christmas Cheer fund now stands at £l5O.

Injuries to his head and concussion were received by Mr. G. August, waterside worker, 73 Sefton Street, when he fell from a staging while loading wool on to the Rotorua at Glasgow Wharf yesterday afternoon. The Free Ambulance took him to hospital.

Tenders accepted by the Wellington Hospital Board at last night’s meeting were as follow: Fever Hospital, main roof, L. Albert and Co., Ltd., £492/12/0; Ohiro Home, roof, L. Albert and Co., Ltd., £209/17/6; fabric roofing, Petrous Tile Co., Ltd., £289.

Permission was granted by the Wellington City Council last night for the destruction of goats on the Orongorongo catchment reserve as recommended by the city engineer. This was subject to the animals not being buried, on the catchment area.

The (Wellington City Council decided at its meeting last night that no further action would be taken to place a building line restriction of 10 feet on the eastern side of Boulcott Terrace until a report has been received from the city valuer on the probable cost of obtaining the land required.

An application for the erection of a building at the corner of Willeston Street and Customhouse Quay for the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited was approved by the Wellington City Council last night, subject to certain conditions and compliance with by-laws.

In the report for October of the municipal abattoirs at Ngahauranga submitted to the Wellington City Council last night it was stated that the total fees received amounted to £757. This was a decrease of £3B on the previous month and. of £142 on the same month last year.

A plan submitted by the city engineer for the erection of a columbarium to contain 1900 niches at Karori was approved at the meeting of the Wellington City Council last night. It was decided that £l4OO should be placed on next year’s estimates to provide for the portion of the building to contain 636 niches; the building will be completed at a later date.

Some hundreds of Wellington citizens yesterday received letters carried on the Faith in Australia’s AucklandInvercargill non-stop flight. Each bore a rectangular cachet in purple, "By Air Mail, Auckland-Invercargilh Per Faith in Australia. December 12, 1933.” Covers in good condition appear to. be relatively scarce. The cachets seem to have been carelessly applied, and in two batches of envelopes—seven in all —shown to “The Dominion,” there was not one perfect specimen. *

Not the least interesting item in the presentation of prizes to the scholars of Wellesley College in the Masonic Hall last evening was a presentation by the boys to Canon Percival James. This took the form of a handsome leather-bound copy of an altar service book. In thanking the boys, Canon Janies said the book would be valued at St. Paul’s and would always be a reminder of what was probably his most pleasant task of the week—his visit to the college.

In reply to a question raised by Mr. J. Glover at last night’s meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board concerning the discharge of patients who were unfinancial, Dr. D. M. Wilson, chairman of the house committee, said that a patient’s discharge was in the hands of the doctors and no pressure was broivfht to bear on them. The doctors, he said, were usually unwilling to discharge a patient too soon for fear of the effects upon their work. On the contrary, such patients were as a rule kept in a little longer than was usual. Mr. Glover said he had heard several rumours that were circulating which were not in the interests of the board.

As the result of a recommendation by the fees committee, it was decided at last night’s meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board to give consideration to the question of the revision of the charges made for in-patient treat-, ment. The fees recommended, said Mr. A. J. McCurdy, chairman of the committee, were 6/- a day for patients under 14 years of age, 9/- a day for those over 14 and under 18 years, and 12/a day for those over IS years. The present charges for in-patient t treatment were 6/- a day for those under 12 years, and 12/- a day for those over 12 years. The new scale, which, it was recommended, should operate as from April 1,1934, was referred by the board to the general purposes committee as a policy matter for further consideration.