NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 301, 16 September 1936, Page 11

NEWS IN BRIEF

Heavy Vehicle Speeds — Under amendments to the Heavj-Motor-vehicle Regulations of 1932, issued as a supplement to the latest Gazette, the speed limits of various types of heavy vehicles are fixed. The prescribed speeds vary from four \o 35 miles an hour and are as follows: Pneumatic-tired, sprung omnibuses, 35 m.p.h, (two to 6i tons). 30 m.p.h. (GJ to 10 tons) and 25 m.p.h. (10 tons to 15 tons). Other pneumatic-tired, sprung vehicles, 30 m.p.h. (2 tons to 61 tons), 25 m.p.h. (6J tons to 10 tons) and 20 m.p.h. (10 tons to 15 tons). Sprung vehicles with solid rubber tires. 12 m.p.h.; with metal tires, S m.p.h. Half the prescribed speeds for unsprung vehicles.

Constable Farewelled. Constable G. Wapie. who has been transferred from Wellington to Gisborne, was farewelled by his fellow officers at the Taranaki Street Police Station yesterday afternoon. On their behalf Senior-Sergeant J. Power presented him with a wristlet watch and an electric toaster.

Busy Day for Ambulance. The Wellington Free Ambulance had an exceedingly busy day on Monday, no fewer than 47 cases being attended to, and 393 miles being travelled by the cars. Of the cases attended to, 38 were in the city and suburbs, two at Eastbourne, one each at Johnsonville, Lower Hutt, Porirua and Paraparaumu and three at Petone. Where Oranges are Cheap.

Must out of Sydney you can buy a bucketful of oranges for ninepence," said Mr. H. Temple White, who returned from Australia by the Marama. “These'are sold in stalls rigged up on the roadside by people who grow oranges in the neighbourhood. They are not the size or quality of the South Australian navel oranges, but they are oranges.”

Another Commercial Aeroplane. Another D.H. Raipide for Cook Strait Airways Ltd. is on the Tamaroa, which will arrive at Wellington on Friday. The machine is similar to the two at present in service, with a slightly higher performance. It will be used for a time as a relief machine for the Wellington-Blenheim-Nelson service and then for the extension of the line to Hokitika via Westport and Greymouth. It Will be transhipped at 'Wellington and taken to Nelson for assembly by the staff of Cook Strait. Airways.

Labour Inspectors Criticised. “I don’t like vague tepns, especially in. these days when the Labour Department has so many green-horn inspectors on the road,” said the secretary of the Canterbury Employers’ Association (Mr. D. I. Macdonald) during conciliation proceedings before the commissioner- (Mr. S. Ritchie) at Christchurch. “Recently I have had to do with two Labour Department inspectors who have interpreted awards absolutely wrongly, so that I have had to have the matter righted by the officer in charge of the department in Christchurch. It was different with the old Inspectors: they knew their work.” Electricity in the Schools. A deputation representing the school committees of Wellington waited upon the tramways committee of the city council yesterday morning in respect to charges for electricity in the schools. The deputation contended that the commercial rate on which committees were charged for the use of electricity was too high in view of the purposes served, and made suggestions as to the manner in which such charges might be reduced. The chairman (Mr. T. C. A. Hislop) said that the matters brought before the committee would be given consideration, and reference would probably be maije to the points raised in the committee’s report to the council on Thursday evening.