NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 304, 19 September 1936, Page 13

NEWS IN BRIEF

Overloaded Court Delay by the Arbitration in coping with the work coming before it was the subject of discussion at a meeting of the Wellington Trades and Labour Council, when it was decided to refer this question of the overloaded 'condition of the court to the Trades Council Federation with a view to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Labour being approached to see if something could be done to alleviate the position. It was stated by a member of the Wellington Trades and Labour Council yesterday that delays were taking place, not only in Wellington, but throughout the Dominion. The position has been causing considerable dissatisfaction among trade unions recently. Plimnierton Ratepayers. To consider the question of water and dainage for PHmmerton, a meeting of ratepayers of the district is to be called by the Hutt County Council at an early date. Bus Licences. An application by J. N. Scadden for a licence to operate a bus service from Ohariu to Wellington through Newlands was granted by the No. 2 Transport Licensing Authority, Mr. P. Skoglund, yesterday. The application of the Mayfair Theatre Company, Ltd., to run a bus service from SJlverstream to Upper Hutt was also granted. City Building Changes Hands.

The large business block in Victoria Street known as the Cathie Building changed hands recently, Mr. Sidney Bates having purchased the structure from the Cathie Estate. The transaction was a cash one. For the past two years Mr. Bates has been the ground floor tenant of this building,, which is on a City Corporation leasehold property. The structure, which is of three stories, has a frontage to Vietoria Street of 45 feet, and a depth of 100 feet.

Mrs. Knox Gilmer’s Politics. That she intended to continue to tread in the political path blazed by her distinguished father, the late Rt. Hon. R. J. Seddon, was an assurance given by Mrs. Knox Gilmer yesterday at the Otakl spring flower show, when replying to a reference by Mr. C. F. Atmore, president of the Otakl Horticultural Society, to her “political aspirations.” Mr. Atmore expressed the conviction that whether Mrs. Gilmer espoused the cause of Labour or Reform or the Democrats or Communism, she would prove an acquisition to any Parliament in which, she secured a seat. Mrs. Gilmer declared her continued allegiance to the Seddon tradition.

Historic Paii\of Handcuffs. A pair of handcuffs of historic interest has been presented to the Canterbury Museum by Mr. J. Houlden, of Christchurch. They were issued to his grandfather, who was a special constable during the “wool riots” in Yorkshire during the ’thirties oflaSt century, when there was considerable agitation because of the introduction of machinery in the wool industry, which, it was thought, would lead to unemployment. The handcuffs ?how that there has been practically no change in pattern during the last 100 years. Ear Trouble.

Ear trouble, in seme cases severe, is being suffered to a considerable extent by Aucklanders at present, apparently as an affliction brought in the train of influenza, which is at present rife and is said to have curtailed shop and office staffs temporarily. Actually, what is generally called influenza often covers a multitude of things, according to Dr. T. J. Hughes, district health officer; the Health Department has been informed of very few notifiable cases of influenza. Invariably cases reported are not of true pneumonic influenza, but of pneumonia supervening on Influenza.