NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 45, 22 August 1938, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

Good Shooting.

A firm belief in the. adage that actions speak louder than, words was demonstrated by a young lady at the Competitions in the Town Hall on Saturday night. In the part of a noisy virago she was expressing vigorous disapproval of the philanderings of her stage husband, at the same time eating her frugal tea of fish and chips. At one particularly forceful passage she brandished aloft her fork on which were impaled two luscious chips, and as if to add force to her story she dexterously flicked the fork forward, sending the greasy fragments of potato sailing across the footlights and out into the audience, one piece scoring a direct hit on the sheet upon which the judge, Mr. W. Eussell-Wood, was making his comments. The item was entitled "The Last Straw," but the judge's comment was not for publication. Trans-Tasman Air Terminal. The claims of Lyttelton as an airport for the trans-Tasman air service have been placed before the Prime Minister (the Et. H6n. M. J. Savage) by the Lyttelton Harbour Board. In a letter received by the secretary of the board, Mr. C. H. Clibbom, on Fri-. day, Mr. Savage states that the points raised by the board have had his careful consideration and will be placed before the Government at the earliest opportunity, states the "Press." The Wellington Chamber of Commerce, considering that the position of the terminal of the trans-Tasman air service should be decided from a national rather than any local point of view, has suggested that a conference of interested bodies should be held. It has asked the Lyttelton Harbour Board whether it can send representatives to such a conference. New Christchurch Station. One of the major works included in the , erection of a new railway station for Christchurch will, be the construction of a big buildmg in the new yards to be used for necessary work on wagons and trucks, states the "Press." This building will cover four separate lines of tracks, and a contract has already been let for it, according to a statement made on Friday by the Minister of Railways (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan). '"Work on the rearrangement of the Christchurch station- yards has begun in earnest," said Mr. Sullivan, "and I am glad to say that it will be carried on continuously. For some months past the work of clearing and levelling an area of land alongside the presertt railway tracks, and extending from Falsgraye Street to Wilson's Road, has been in progress, and as soon.as this preliminary work is completed (in two to three weeks' time) a commencement will be made with the laying of sidings. These sidings will be used as a storage and marshalling yard, where! carriages will be shunted for carrying out certain necessary operations, such as washing, examination, testing the steam heating and braking apparatus, refilling water tanks, and so on. Part of the area, also, will form a site for a building in which will be carried'out light repair work to carriages and trucks, and where the batteries which supply power for the electric lighting of carriages will be charged and washed. This building, which is to be constructed in concrete and .steel, will be roughly 220 ft by 110 ft, and will be traversed by four railway tracks. The contract for the erection has been let to Mr. C. S. Luney, of Christchurch. Another important work in this vicinity," said Mr. Sullivan, "is the provi- : sion of a subway under the railway tracks at Falsgrave Street. This subway, which is for pedestrian traffic only, will be about 300 ft long by 9ft wide. The subway plans are now nearing completion, and a start on the construction work should be possible j within five or six weeks."