CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 146, 17 March 1934, Page 9

CITY AND SUBURBAN

Happenings About the Town Run over by the Kelburn cable car about 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, Mr. Walter Sant, labourer, 5 Hadfield Terrace, received severe injuries to his head and ribs and both his legs were fractured. Tb c accident occurred at the Salamanca Rond stop. Mr. Saul was taken to hospital by the Free Ambulance. _ Two charitable gifts are provided for in the will of the late Percy Alfred Zohrab, who died in Wellington on Sunday last. The gifts are: £lOO to the Wellington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for the general purposes of the said society. £2OOO (subject to a life interest) to the Church of England Bishop of the Diocese of Wellington, to be divided by him as he thinks among Church of England homes and orphanages for children in the Diocese of Wellington.

When Superintendent C. A. Woolley took over the Wellington Fire Brigade he refported to the board almost at once that the system of marking the position of street hydrants was inadequate. Permission was obtained from the City Council to indicate their position by painting a semi-circle in white on the kerb, opposite the hydrant. At yesterday’s meeting of the Fire Board it was stated that up to the present this work had been done with carbide residue. which, however, did not stand up to the traffic too well. It was decided to ask the City Council to contribute £6O worth of road-marking paint for the purpose of reconditioning the hydrant signs during the current year.

Houghton Bay residents need fire protection as well as those in any other part of the city. They have renew’d their request to the Fire Board for alarms to be established in the district, urging the need as at present there are none nearer than Lyall Bay or Island Bay. Street fire alarms necessitating a separate wire to the nearest fire station —in this case Constable Street—are very expensive to install. As before, the request was refused on the ground that the superintendent did not think the population of the district sufficient to warrant the expense of the installation. A member of the ■board suggested that the residents themselves might arrange for the use of certain telephones to give the alarm.