NEWS OF THE DAY

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 105, 5 May 1937, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

The Wellington City Council has decided to contribute £IOOO to the King George Memorial Fund. —Press Assn. A motor-cyclist named F. N. Bacon, of Kairanga, collided with the back of a car driven by J. W. Coddington, traffic inspector, as the latter was backing out from the kerb in Cuba street last evening. Bacon was thrown to the road to suffer abrasions to a shin. Written from his London address, a letter was received by the Terrace End School committee last evening from Sir Richard Linton, who visited the school last year. He advised that he was forwarding a parcel containing a New Zealand shield with a collection of Empire flags, as a Coronation decoration for the school. Sir Richard added that he hoped shortly to forward a photo of himself, as requested by the committee, to be hung in his old school. A number of old pianofortes came up for sale at an Auckland auction room a few days ago. They had been stored for many years, and were badly damaged by borer and moth. The condition they were in is attested by the prices realised, for six sold for £5, and one made only 11s 6d. Nevertheless, there were bargains among them, for some of the walnut and mahogany timber had resisted the attacks of the borer insect, and was undamaged. Because the crowing of roosters at night and in the early morning disturbs the sleep of guests in hotels ind boarding-houses, the Rotorua Borough Council has adopted a by-law prohibiting the keeping of poultry in the inner area of the town. Another new by-law provides that dogs in the streets in the same area must be securely held by their owners on a suitable leash. This was enacted owing to complaints by shopkeepers that dogs were an increasing nuisance as well as a danger to traffic. A flow of water at the rate of 270 gallons a minute was struck on Monday ut the 465 feet level when the new artesian bore for the Palmerston North City Council was being driven through a stratum of fairly loose shingle in Vogel street. It had not been anticipated that the subterranean stream believed to exist there would be tapped until a depth of between 480 and 50’0 feet had been reached. It is understood that subsequent tests proved the flow to be satisfactory for water supply purposes, as the three-inch drill was still inside the six-inch pipe, reducing it to half-volume. When the stream was fully tapped, and the drill withdrawn, it was considered that there would be a flow equivalent to the original 500 gallons a minute at the Heretaunga street when the bores were sunk there.