NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 255, 24 July 1936, Page 13

NEWS IN BRIEF

Transport Control

A supplement to the New Zealand Gazette issued yesterday contains comprehensive provisions relating to passenger services under the Transport Licensing Act. 1931. Thirteen former Orders-in-Council are revoked, and transport districts have been constituted with a definition of boundaries in the North and South Islands. The new provisions cover the issue of passenger service licences, fares, and tickets, transfer of licences, and the condition of vehicles. Provision is also made for appeals to the Minister of Transprt, and a list of fees for licences and certificates of fitness is cited. The Or-der-in-Council also details provisions as to the regulation of goods services in controlled areas. Magistrates’ Expenses.

A new regulation in the “Gazette” provides that the travelling allowances of stipendiary magistrates which were fixed in July. 1934, at 18/- a day. are to be increased to 20/-.

Versatile Worker. In the course of discussion in t'he Arbitration Court yesterday _ on the hours of work for the building trade, the industry was referred to as “the goose that lays the golden egg.” “Yes.” retorted a workers’ representative, “and the worker’s the mug that’s done the laying of it.”

Magpie Looks for His Own Job. Deciding that he would prefer to seek bis own employment rather than have it found for him, the magpie which called at the Employment Bureau at Lower Hutt on Wednesday afternoon wandered casually to the door about midday yesterday and took off for an unknown destination.

Export of Dairy Produce. An Order-in-Council in the current “Gazette” prohibits the exportation of butter and cheese without the consent of the Minister of Customs. It Is anounced that application for permission to export butter and cheese must first be made to the Primary Products Marketing Department at the port of intended export. Telegrams For Spain.

Anyone who wishes to send telegraphic messages from New Zealand to Spain, the Canary Islands or Spanish Morocco, for the time being, does so at his or her own risk. This is made clear in a notice issued from the Wellington Chief Post Office, which states that such messages are “Subject to delay in delivery, and until further notice can only be accepted at the risk of the senders.”

Death of a Bishop. Cabled advice from London of the sudden death of the lit. Rev. Arthur Llewellyn Preston, Bishop Suffragan of Woolwich, is of particular interest to people in the Wellington diocese in view of the fact that overtures were made to him last year in the hope that he would come to New Zealand to succeed Bishop T. H. Sprbtt. At the Diocesan Synod last October the Bishop of Woolwich was elected to be Bishop of Wellington, but he declined. Not a Burglary.

Imagine the surprise whidli a Wellington shopkeeper received when he found two police constables paying unusually close attention to his shop in Courtenay Place when he went to open up for business yesterday morning. The shopkeeper had been to the premises the previous night, and finding that he had left his keys at home broke a small pane of glass in the front door to let himself in. As he was in the process of moving to new premises and there was little in the building at t'he time, he did not worry about boarding up the hole left in the door. Discovering the broken pane in the early hours of the morning, the suspicions of the police were immediately aroused and a vigilant watch was maintained in the hope of arresting an intruder.

Arbor Day Preparations. The opening of the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum has been most opportunely timed with respect to Arbor Day. The opening has been arranged for Saturday, August 1, and Arbor Day is to be celebrated on the following Wednesday. In preparation for an extensive planting campaign, numerous holes, two feet in depth, are being made in the two shoulder banks below the motor drive, and just above the level of Buckle Street. This bank consists of loamy clay, and greasy “pug.” While growth would be possible in the former, it is impossible in pug- Soil is being supplied to fill the holes. The whole M the western terraces and banks have been turfed, and those on the eastern side of the Carillon bower and steps will be completed by to-morrow. Now that the approach roads have been given a coating of fine gravel, the surface is perfect for motor traffic Soil is being supplied to the sunken gardens in front of the gallery.