LOCAL & GENERAL

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 31, 10 January 1929, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

Mr W. T. Strand (Mayor of, Lower Hutt) has decided not to accept nomination for a further term, and efforts are being made to get'Sis'.-A. Roberts to stand for the position.

Miss May Bar;fcosh, a resident of Taita fell on a concrete yard in the early hours of Thursday morning and suffered concussion. After being attended to ~ by a doctor she was taken by the JFree Ambulance to the hospital.

Eric Steadman, who appeared before 'Messrs D. C. Martin and* X M. Power," J.P. 's, at the • Lower Hutt Court yesterday morning on a charge of being an incorrigible rogue was , sentenced to pne month's imprisonment.

"Injuries to Ms shoulder wore received by: E. J. Bird, a civil engineer residing at Fry 's Lane, Lower Hutt, wnen the motor-cycle and side car he was riddng capsized on the Paekakariki Beach yesterday. After being taken to Ms

home he was removed to the Hospital by the City Ambulance. t

In a craft 7ft. 6in. in length, built by himself, Mr. W. H. Webster, a young man, it is said, proposes to sail across the Atlantic. He sailed from York, and after a river journey of 18 hours was stopped by the police at the, instigation of his father. He wa^s bound for Hull and the North Sea. The "boat, which was of novel design, had two small cockpits and rough sleeping accommodation.

A rather unusual accident occurred at Lower Hutt yesterday morning when William Hepworth ; a carpenter of Pretoria Street, Lower Hhitt, sustained injuries to the neck and shock as the result of his head suddenly striking the windscreen of a motorj-car he was driving. Hepworth was steering the vehicle vthrough some long grass when the front axle suddenly came in contact with the stump of a tree, which was unobserved, causing the ear to pull up with a jerk. After being attended to by a doctor, Hepworth was removed to •the public hospital by the free ambulance. ' , r

People in New South. Wales with money to invest have the greatest faitn in New Zealand,* and members of the Sydney Stock Exchange frequently buy New Zealand Government bond's for clients, according to Mr H. J. Malmgrom, a member of the Sydney Stock Exchange, who was a passenger from Sydney by the Ulimaxoa, which reached Auckland on Tuesday. Accompanied by Mr H. P. Cooper, also a member of the Exchange, he is qn a holiday visit to the Dominion. Mr Malmgron said money was now a good deal cheaper in New South Wales, no -doubt owing to the good season experienced for wool and wheat. There had been a boom in mining shares, while good classes of investments were banks, breweries, sugars, gas, and concerns dealing with necessitious commodities. Although these shares returned a compara-. tively low rate of interest, they were rewarded as safe, and were therefore popular. *' There is a good deal of speculation in oil r particularly "in the , Roma fields of Queensland, and in New Guinea gold, which is looked upon as a gamble, and in Eastern tin," said Mr Malmgron. Generally speaking, financial conditions in New South Wales were much easier, and there was every prospect that next year would be a very good one.