LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15307, 21 May 1913, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

The need for the second Main Trunk express, even in the -winter season, was again exemplified yesterday. A prominent Auckland ; business man, desiring to book ; a sleeping-berth by last night's' train, V -went to the station for that purpose early in the morning. He was informed that the cadinary sleeper was full, but that a second one would not be put on : unless there were at least seven more applicants/for berths. By 3 p.m. the necessary, quota; of . passengers had applied, so that two sleepers left, one with all its berths filled, and the other well patronised. There are always pas- . sengers joining the express at ; intermediary stations, and, under the present arrangements it is practically'impossible for, all of them to obtain sleeping accommodation. A good deal has been said about the expense of running ; the second express, i but Auck-j land business men complain that ; nothing j is said about the amount accruing to the Railway Department, even supposing that only 20 through; return passengers avail themselves of the extra train.- It is understood that the Chamber of Commerce has by no means finished with this subject, but intends to proceed with, its agitation ; for the restoration of the full: service. / The appointment of honorary surgeons and physicians to assist each member of I - the honorary medical staff at the Auckland , District Hospital was a suggestion which came ; - under discussion at last night's meeting of the Hospital Board. 7 The subject arose as the outcome of the resignai tion of Mr. T. Copeland Savage as honorary - surgeon, owing to his inability to spare : the time demanded by ; the work Ex'- ; pressions of regret at having to lose /Mr. Savage's services were ■ general, : and Dr. ! Maguire (medical superintendent) sug- • gested that they might be retained if the i board ■' were i; to appoint ■,; an :fv assistant . honorary surgeon, who could take some of Mr. Savage's hospital work off hiff'hands. Dr. Florence Keller: approved of the idea, 1 and went a step further, advocating , the 1 appointment of honorary assistants to the . whole of the honorary medical staff.> This, , she said, was done in all the big hospitals '. at Home 'and in America. * Members of the 1 board supported the idea, and ; it J was" re-; ! solved, on Mr. P. '•..M. Mackay's • motion, * to send the matter to the Hospital - Comi mittee for consideration.; Meantime, Mr. Savage is to be asked to defer his resigna•i tion. j The Customs Department is still collects ing light dues from vessels passing the Bean Rock light, according to a statement -■ made by Mr; J. Hi Bradney, M.P:, to the 5 Harbour Board yesterday. The light was r until recently, maintained by the Goverh- } ment, but was then taken over by the Harbour Board. The chairman (Mr." J. H. Gunson) said that there was no justifi- -: cation at all for the Department: continuing to collect the. dues* .■"'"::;;; ; ;:;,;'■:■;:•', <■-;•'•:., ;■■:..-r:' : .^ : '^ : £'t&i'-f^

At number j views |/6f j? the ; Tyseir|{ A number of fine views of the Tyser steamer Indrabarah as she lies stranded on the beach near Wanganui, are included in this week's issue /of .the : Auckland Weekly ; ; News. ' The .: pictures• clearly |l show ; the .vessel's 'j proximity to the shore, and impress one with some idea -of : the! '-}■ difficulty which will be experienced in; refloating her. / The frontispiece is occupied by/a: portrait of : a beautiful »Maori girl, f Photographs of H.M.S. New. - Zealand at h Lyttelton show the ... man-o'-war • being / berthed at the -wharf. Two views of the .'j| recent destructive fire at Kimbolton show /. the extent of the damage done. The centra, k ; double-page :is dayoted , ; to a ; series of -/ picturesque-, views of Japan as photo- - graphed by a ■ New Zealander. on tour.. The rising town of Te Kuiti is illustrated, > showing the large number of newly./; erected buildings, with a fine panoramic view of the town. There are also reproJ ductions from numerous entries in the ■■ various classes : in , the' fifteenth annual / competition, portraits of men before the public eye, the visit of schoolgirls to the Hawke's Bay Experimental Fruit Farm, the new Town-Hall at Whangarei (which/ is to be opened , to-morrow by Mr.' F. Mander, • M.P., when the town will be en fete), the lifting of a large iron span on the Queen Street Wharf by the floating;'; crane to connect two of the sheds to en- j able the permanent cranes to work between them, the result ,of heavy seas on the railway line from Wellington to Hutt,a slide of thousands of tons .- of earth •on to the road beside the same line, a snapshot of the schooner Amelia Sims (which' the bailiff took -in charge at Gisbome), and numerous Other subjects of interest. > The edition is one which will undoubtedly meet with general approval. • »• . No reduction; in the passenger train ser- : ; vice between Otahuhu and the city is contemplated. A correspondent whose letterfJ was published on' Monday complained thai '. the morning train, timed to leave Qtahuhu >" a few minutes after ten o'clock was to be <| discontinued, but the district traffic manager states that this information is erroj neous. ■ , ( .'- . . ') I • ; -4 - - • W-;1 There were 267 patients in the Auckland g District Hospital ;on Allay 6 last,.as com-J pared with 291 at the > beginning i. of . the period a month earlier. , Of these, 14 were ;| infectious, cases and 253 -were ordinary patients, 168 being males and 85 females. 4?. Some . words of " advice to small : traders: : in respect to . the - keeping of their books were uttered by Mr. Justice Cooper at the Supreme Court yesterday.. He : pointed < out . that the Bankruptcy Act - provided? that any man carrying on a : business must keep books that would enable the ; official assignee to ascertain ; his position, without ; unreasonable difficulty, at any time, during the three years prior , to a; bankruptcy."; J Further, he would have to keep his books • so that he himself could make out ; his' financial position at • reasonable intervals. A ; small trader ; should keep a cash V book showing not only his- transactions with the bank, but also the cash dealt with over tho I counter, and a day book showing the goods sold. / - It might not be essential to keep a journal if the day book * was. kept t in: such a way as to enable the trader to post into the - ledger the goods v sold to; purchasers. ! A trader, too, 'should always be careful - about h the; money ;he might happen to owe. . , • . • The new pumps at Calliope Dock were reported at yesterday's meeting of' the Harbour Board to be ready to be put under steam at any time. ■■ ■' The repairs to' the caisson are still in progress, 4/ The side that :hasr hitherto always been • towards the harbour " has i been nearly completed, and new sluiceways N are . being - put : through.; If the. dock , should be required in the - event of » the . successful floating ;of the ; Indrabarah, the engineer -■-. statedf,V.provision 4 could be made .for replacing the caisson iris position and deferring repairs to the opposite side. *_ • ■; r / : ~F ittings and connections for telephones to be placed on: board vessels at the Queen Street Wharf / have recently been • completed, and according; to a report received by Vthe Harbour Board ; from its 5 engineer yesterday j. the system was put into commission oh board the steamer .Wimmera on her: last ;' visit to the - port. >A i similar installation is ; being r made at the i Railway; Wharf. ./ '/ , • ./. ■

The '' formal''celebration of Empire Day , y in Auckland -this year, is^fixed by the r-x calendar for Saturday. No arrangements '; ; have ; been : made or; the , city . school! child- c; ren to participate in the:observance of the -. ; : anniversary, ; and the; only >\ formal recog-.; ■■;« nit ion will be by , the King's Empire Vete-. ■:,; rans, who will< :■ parade at the Victoria ■ Statue, in Albert Park, at 11.45 a.m. The members. of the corps will wear their uni- f .■•;■.. forms, with ; their medals and, decorations. \ i After the parade the men will ■ lunch ■:■ together. In the evening :; a concert, ar- , ranged by the Overseas Club and the Victoria . League, will '■ be given; in the Town Hall in " celebration of the anniversary _ . VI was going to Sydney, Your [Worship," said a youthful : plaintiff at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. ; . : "What -' j were you going there for■?" asked Mr. C. -'; : C. Kettle. "'I wanted to have a 'fly'- ?1 roundto see things,? was the reply. /; And did -you get to' Sydney "No, I';' . didn't get as far as that. "How. far did you get ?"—"To Wellington," " And \ you spent your money there ?"—" Yes, I - ■; got rid of it quick.'*; • "How did yon 7 spend it?" — "Is it necessary to tell .-V that "Well, I don't think it is under '.; the circumstances," replied His Worship." In : requesting the Auckland Harbour /,* Board to instal additional horse troughs J-i on the : waterfront in % the : neighbourhood j=;jg of the Queen ■•■ Street Wharf, the inspector;: for the i Society for the Prevention of ;. - Cruelty to Animals (Mr. H. Alder) quoted some: interesting figures. On a recent: <, s Thursday (hot a busy day) he stood beside the solitary trough; near the Railway y; Wharf -and counted 350 ':, horses pass in a single hour. • Between 2.30 and 3.30 p.m. ; ■ on the following day the trough ,was i used by 107 horses. :\ No -further evidence',' he said, should be required to show that further provision should be made for enabling horses to be watered.. The board 're* - ; erred the request to ; the traffic manage* . for a report. i ■' : . • Arguments in favour of the formation ..-.; of Takapuna into a borough will" be pre-;. ~ sented to the ratepayers of the proposed ~, municipal area at a public meeting which .- will be held, in the Parish Hall on Monday . evening. v The meeting has been convened by the.Takapuna Ratepayers' Association, and ; Messrs:- O. Nicholson (Mayor "of Mount Eden), E. W. S Alison, W. ; Duncan> /• and. S. B. Bull : have "been invited to de- - liver addresses. . -" Neglect to ,pay fees to the Auckland Plumbers' Union cost H. E. Minn*, g plumber, of Ponsonby, £3 5s at the Magistrate's Court yesterday :morning. The - actual sum in dispute and for which Hi» j. Worship ) (Mr. C. C. Kettl«) gave j judg- j ment was £1 2s. In addition Minns tad to pay costs .£2 3s.' Mr. A. E. -• Skelton ; ;; appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. i3bulding 5,4 for defendant.' Mr.i Skelton said that de- ~ fendant last year applied for his discharge;,-; from , the union on the grounds that he m was about to enter into partnership, with ; v-,; a master;plumber.'. Such was not the case, - but he : was granted his request and:paid;',, ■ ub further: subscriptions, although he usea . : .the union for. the purpose .of pbtaigintt «*" nloyment. * ' ><* , . . v , - \d ' •- ■ - '-'-v-,1 1 s l*m ,A, d ' ■ i u - 'Vlil