25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 285, 29 August 1935, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Aeroplane Service

(From "The Dominion," September 1,1010.) An endeavour is being made to inaugurate an aeroplane passenger service between Boulogne and Folkestone, and with this object in view, it is proposed to offer prizes. [Actually the civil passenger service across the channel was inaugurated only toward the end of the war.]

In connection witli a recent accident in the city the police are taking action against the rider of a motor-bicycle (1) for alleged breach of by-law 47 in not giving alarm by bell or horn, and (2) for alleged breach of by-law 51 by riding over the regulation speed of 10 miles an hour in one of the city streets.

The ancient wooden structure on the corner of Old Customhouse Quay and Willis Street, formerly part of the Health Estate—one of the few original town acres of the New Zealand Laud Company that were undivided until recent years—is to be demolished in the near future to make way for a modern steel-frame building for Messrs. F. Pinny and Company. pianoforte warehousemen, nt present of lower Cuba Street, who recently acquired the property at nearly £3OOO a foot. [That part of Old Customhouse Street is now named Bond Street and Pinny’s building stood on land that is now partly street. what remains bearing Nimmo’s Building.]