CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 71, 16 December 1933, Page 11

CITY AND SUBURBAN

Happenings About the Town

INCIDENTS, OBSERVATIONS

The tender of Mr. C. Quinn for the erection in brick of a fire station at Khandallah at a cost of £894 was accepted by the Wellington Fire Board at its monthly meeting yesterday.

The Lower Hutt relief committee’s fishing boat Latham, registered No. A.W.N.80, is reported to have been missing from Ward Island since Wednesday. She is a 16-foot boat, and in her were several oars and rowlocks. Having fallen down some steps in Epuni Street at about 4 p.m. yesterday, a man about 60 years of age is in hospital with head injuries. His identity was not known last night, but he was taken to hospital by the Free Ambulance, and his condition is not serious. “My appeal for Christmas cheer is having a wonderful response,” writes the Rev. T. Fielden Taylor, City Missioner. “There is a great demand for toys, and if any of your readers can see their way to let me have toys for free distribution it will help a lot. It will be a terrible thing if the wee children get the idea that the depression has killed Santa Claus.”

The serious shortage of water from which residents of Plimmerton were suffering was referred to at the monthly meeting of the Hutt County Council yesterday by Mr. R. L. Button, who asked what assistance the council could give. Until the shortage became acute, however, it was decided to leave the provision of water in the hands of private enterprise.

The presentation of the Diploma of the Institute of Fire Engineers, Great Britain, to Station Officers H. Bruce and J. Philp, and of the Diploma of the New Zealand Fire Brigade Officers’ and Members’ Institute to District Officer G. A. MacKenzie, Station Officer H. Bruce and Fireman G. Dunnachie, was made by the chairman of the Wellington Fire Board, Mr. N. Nelson, following the monthly meeting of the board yesterday. .

In response to a request from the Upper Hutt Borough Council, it was decided at the monthly meeting of the Hutt County Council to prohibit the use of hoses for watering gardens within the Heretaunga Riding between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., but to permit the use of attended hoses between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. . In the case of consumers at Paekakariki and Paraparauinu, it Tvas resolved to permit them to use hoses,during the day as long •as the hoses were attended.

An interesting insight into' the psychology -of pupils attending secondary schools was given by the principal of the Hutt Valley High School at the breaking-up ceremony yesterday. Once, he said, when he tried to discover how he was regarded by the pupils, he found that the boys thought he was fairly good because he could hit four times on the same spot, and the girls’ opinion was that he smiled downward instead of upward.

“A great difficulty that confronts us in our desire to develop the cultural subjects is the pressure of outside examinations, the regard for and worship of which has become almost a national trait,” Mr. F. M. Renner, principal of Rongotai College,' in an address at the prize-giving ceremony yesterday. “We cannot make one step forward or devote one extra half-hour of our time to a subject like music, art, drawing, dramatic work, without having to answer the inevitable question, ‘What about his senior free place examination? }Vhat about his matriculation?’ ’’ he said.

Extensive repairs to Whiteman's bridge, leading from the Hußt-Wai-kanae Road to Karopoti, have been decided upon by the Hutt County Council. “In connection with this work," reported the county overseer, Mr. H. Dyer, “it will be necessary to dismantle a portion of this structure and thereby close the road to motor traffic for some time.” The decision to do the work about Christmas- time has been brought about by the fact that the' timber mills will be closed at that time, and work in connection with timber export generally will be at a standstill. Intending campers are advised not to erect camps on the west side of the bridge, as access will undoubtedly be cut off for some time. It is not possible to erect a temporary bridge without great expense.