NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 256, 25 July 1936, Page 11

NEWS IN BRIEF

Awatea’s Trials

The Union Company lias received advice that its new 14,000-ton trans-Tas-man liner Awntea was dry-docked at Birkenhead on Thursday preparatory to running her trials on the Clyde. These are to extend from noon to-day until next Tuesday morning. The liner is to leave England shortly under the command of Captain A. 11. Davey, and is due in New Zealand early in September. Prison For Theft.

Iu the Supreme Court at Dunedin Harold John Carr, on charges of theft from dwellings, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment with hard labour, says a Press Association message.

Forty-hour Week Celebrations. So far no decision has been come to by the Wellington Trades and Labour Council as to the most fitting way of celebrating the introduction on September lof the 40-hour week. So many suggestions have been made that a special meeting is to be held pn Thursday next to discuss the question and formulate plans. Representatives are to be invited from the New Zealand Labour Party, the Labour Representation Committee and other national industrial organisations.

Traffic Hampered. Traffic was hampered at the intersection of Mercer and Willis Streets for nearly 16 minutes yesterday following a collision between a motor-truck and a bicycle. Small groups of pedestrians quickly gathered on the intersection and did not disperse until after the truck had been driven away. Mr. A. Gooch, a Kiibirnie and Lyall Bay carrier, who was driving the truck, was travelling north along Willis Street, and had almost completed a turn into Mercer Street when a bicycle ridden by John Mitchell, a messageboy, up ‘ Willis Street, collided with the rear of the vehicle. The boy received only minor injuries, but his bicycle had the shaft of the handlebars twisted, the lamp-bracket bent and a mudguard buckled.

Early Morning Milk. . . When the Wellington municipal milk department some years ago decided to institute an afternoon and evening delivery of milk in place of a pre-breakfast delivery, there was a loud outcry against the innovation, both from the public and the roundsmen. But the circumstances governing the receipt of the milk and its treatment at the" station were such that an evening delivery was the most convenient. With the pending introduction, however, of the 40-hour week, the conditions will change. With the shorter hours (commencing at 2 a.m.). and working a sixday week, with an increase in the number of roundsmen, it will be convenient to revert to. an early morning delivery. The rounds are now being rearranged, and six extra roundsmen are to be employed.