NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 42, 13 November 1936, Page 11

NEWS IN BRIEF

Gift to Public Library

The Wellington Public Library will benefit from a trust offered to and accepted by the Wellington City Council last night. The trust, which has a capital value of £2O, is to be known as ••The Ernest James Haggerty Gillespie Trust,” and the income is to be paid to the public library at intervals of fi'C years and applied in the purchase of books. The thanks of the council are to be conveyed to the donor through the District Public Trustee.

More Milk Sold. Municipal milk sales in Wellington for October averaged 5495 gallons daily, an increase of 317 gallons as compared with the same month last year. . Cream sales showed an increase of 6.26 per cent.

The I’edal Cyclist. “\n extraordinary bird is the pedal cvclist,” said Mr. F. C. Spratt, chair man of the education and propaganda sub-committee, at the meeting of the New Zealand Road Safety Council yesterday. “He resents advice, and he has a' complete disregard for motorists and pedestrians alike.” ,

“Conscience Money.” The Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. G. C. Rodda, acknowledges in this week’s Gazette the following amounts forwarded by persons unknown as “conscience money” to the New Zealand Government: £2 and £3/7/- to the Railways Department: £3/19/6 and £4 19/6 to the Customs Department; 8/6 to the Post and Telegraph Department; and 1/10 to the Treasury.

Compensation Claim. Decision will be given this morning in the Supreme Court, Wellington, m the case in which Mrs. Ethel Sophia Quinlan is claiming compensation amounting to £4187 from the Education Board. Mrs. Quinlan's property at 32 Brougham Street was recently taken under the Public Works Act for the purpose of extending the Elizabeth Street school.

Newspaper Publicity. The view that newspapers are still the basic vehicles for the dissemination of information was expressed by Mr. F. C. Spratt, at the meeting of the New Zealand Rond Safety Council yesterday. “There is an impression that other methods are superceding the newspapers, but the adult education and propaganda committee feels that newspapers are still the basic vehicles for the dissemination of Information,” he said. “Newspapers are the public's library.”

Golfers Stayed Away. “The publicity given to my complaint concerning golfers practising on the cricket ground has proved very effective and not a single golfer has been seen at work on the ground during the month.” stated Mr. J. N. Millard, principal of the Hutt Valley High School, to the board of governors last evening. “The rabbits have not been so considerate, and they do not seem to have paid any attention to the complaint.”

Civic Administration. “Wellington has not a great deal to learn from most of the places I visited,” said Cr. R. McKeen, M.P., who recently returned from abroad, at the meeting of the Wellington City Council last night, when he was replying to a “welcome home” given by the mayor, Mr, T. C. A. Hislop. Cr. McKeen said he had made a study of local body and civic administration abroad, so far as he was able, but in many respects he did not learn much more than he knew before leaving Wellington.

Special Concession Tickets. Special 1/6 concession tickets for use on trams are to be issued to men on sustenance by the Wellington City Council. The tickets are to be issued through the unemployment bureau, and each man is to be entitled to purchase one ticket every three weeks. The tickets are to lie available on tramcars leaving any termini between 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. The men have to travel to the city at least once a week to report, and the councillors felt that the concession was reasonable in view of the fact that the men were compelled to make the journeys.

Welcome Home for Airman. An appeal to the public of Canterbury to give a fitting welcome to Mr. L. E. Clark, the Canterbury Aero Club member, when he arrives at Wigram after his Tasman crossing, has been made by Mr. P. R. Climie, secretary of the Canterbury Aero Club. It was only proper, said Mr. Climie, that. Canterbury should recognise the achievement of one of its own aiinien, if he should be successful in making the dangerous crossing. He hoped that a large crowd would be present at the aerodrome when Mr. Clark arrived. It was possible also that a public reception would be arranged.

The Auditor Objects. Objection to a grant of £lO made by the Hamilton Domain Board to the South Auckland Cricket Association has been taken by the Government Audit Department, which states that there is no legal authority for the donation. The board was instructed to recover the money from the association. Mr. F. A. Swarbrick described the affair as futile, as there was nothing to prevent the board from recovering the money and reimbursing the association by performing equivalent work for their benefit. This suggestion was approved, and the board decided to draw the Auditor-General’s attention to the anomaly.

New Zealanders in the News. How the recent activities ill three voting New Zealanders have served to keep the Dominion prominently before the eves of the English people is well illustrated in a recent issue of the London “Daily Sketch.” In it there are no fewer than three news articles dealing with the plans or performances of Miss Jean Batten, Jack Lovelock and George Nepia. One of the’ articles recounts the final movements of Miss Jean Batten on the eve of her departure from Lympne aerodrome for Australia and New Zealand, the second is an examination of Lovelocks last mile race at Princeton Stadium by the famous English sprinter H. M. Abrahams. and the third tells how Nepia scored a. great personal triumph in a Rugby League football match, scoring the 12 points recorded by his team. Streatham-Mitcham, in a match against Halifax.