LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18455, 19 July 1923, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

, Price 3 for "beef at the Westfield fat stock sales yesterday showed' a slight improvement on last _ week's rates. Extra prime ox. beef, realised from £1. 5s to £1 6s per 1001b., other grades bringing from 14s, to £1 4s, according to quality. Cow and heifer beef . brought , from 10s to £1 per 1001b. There was a good yarding ,for sheep, and prices were easier than those prevailing last , week. Wethers. brought from £1 9s to £2 Is; ewes, £1 6s to £1 14s 6d; lambs,' 16s to £1 6s. There was a keen demand for pigs, choppers and bacon pigs realising from £3 5s to. £5 Bs.

The' City Fire Brigade received a call at 9.30 p.m. yesterday to the motor garage of George Henning, Ltd., in the old Albert Hall in Albert Street. A number of wooden shelves were found to be on lire/ but the outbreak was quickly suppressed before much damage had been done.

The concreting of the New North Road from Dominion Road corner to the Kingsland Post Office, has' been completed. Yesterday the Mayor of Mount Albert, Mr. L. E. Rhodes, expressed. himself as very pleased with the work as carried out, and added that Mount Albert could now boast a fine stretch of roadway as an outlet from the city, comparing very favourably with that of other districts.

Tho members of the Arbitration Court are compelled to listen to a great deal of expert evidence and get a full share of medical ■ evidence when compensation cases are under review. Mr. Justice Frazer has occupied the position of president of the Court long enough to realise that when doctors differ patience may be summoned. A fixture was being made yesterday for the hearing of a compensation case, and His Honor , had occasion to inquire the nature of the injury to the claimant. He was told it was a knee injury and that three medical witnesses would be called on one side and possibly a like number on the other. "Oh, that is not so bad," commented His Honor. "If it was a heart case they would probably disagree for hours." It was agreed that the case could be heard in the time at the disposal of the Court.

The holding of a race meeting at Ellerslie in ' July is a unique event. Yesterday's meeting on the Auckland Racing Club's ground was made possible by that body granting the use of its course to two country bodiesthe Franklin and Matamata —who were granted totalisator permits for two days by the Minister for Internal Affairs. The weather being fine, there was an attendance of about 6500 and the sum of £28,832 passed through the totalisator. The leading event, the Franklin Handicap, resulted in a dead-heat between Mr. G. L. Stead's Royal Box and Mr. A. E. lattley's Glen Canny. ■.

The tone of a certain letter of complaint regarding the condition of Vincent Road was strongly resented by the Mayor and other members of the Mount Albert Borough Council at its last- meetwasing. After pointing out the work which it was desired should be done, the letter stated "that it was almost impossible to get a perambulator . out on to. the road. There are no councillors living in the vicinity", therefore we are forgotten, except for rates, which.it seems were paid for the benefit of other more fortunate residents who had a councillor living in their midst." The Mayor, Mr. L. E. Rhodes, took strong exception to the inference that members of the council " feathered their own nests." One member added that he considered the letter should not have been read, but merely laid on the table. It. was resolved that the writer be informed that work of a permanent nature was contemplated in Vincent Road and would shortly be put in hand. ■/

Exception was taken at the meeting of the Education Board yesterday to the 1 lack of replies by the Education Department to letters and : telegrams from the board regarding the application that the Birkenhead side school be converted into a main school, and for an additional classroom at the Northcote infant school. Mr. J P McPhail said it was deplorable that members of Parliament could get more satisfaction from the department than the board could. Mrs. N. E. Ferrer said she considered it was treating the board with discourtesy in sending, information to districts before communicating with the board. Mr. J. Patterson pointed out this information came from members of Parliament. The chairman undertook to telegraph to the Minister immediately. .

A young man, Mr. Ronald Ogier, who resides at 6, Mount Pleasant Road, off Dominion Road, was admitted to the Auckland Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from a broken leg. The injury was the result of a severe kick [ ece J while playing football on the old dock site during the lunch hour.

In connection with the Edendalu drainage scheme, the Mayor of Mount Albert, Mr. L. E. Rhodes, stated that the scheme submitted by Mr. J. Rogers, engineer to the Mount Eden Borough, which was discussed by the Mount Albert Council on Tuesday evening, had yet to be considered by its engineer, Mr. F. E. Powell. The engineers are to prepare a joint scheme for submission to the Mount Albert Council. In the meantime what has been approved is a smaller scheme, as a temporary measure -to give relief to the small area contiguous to Elizabeth Street and Parrish Road, Edcndale.

An unusual petition came before the Mount Albert Borough Council. About 20 residents of Kingsland Avenue complained that a certain resident was housing two dogs which cried almost ceaselessly in a most distressing manner to the extreme annoyance and discomfort of those living ■' in the vicinity. The ranger reported that the dogs were badly housed and this had contributed to the trouble. One of the dogs had since been removed and better housing provided for the other, so " residents would be. assured of their sleep in the future."

An emphatic . protest against the extension. of the Bent Restriction Act was made by Mr. R. D. Duxfield at the last meeting of the executive of the Auckland Farmers' Union. Mr. Duxfield's protest was supported by Mr. A. E. Harding, president of the union, who said the extension would do harm. The restrictions had not done the soldiers any good, for eventually owners would not let them into their houses. It was an expediency that defeated its Own ends. The meeting resolved to refer the question to the Dominion Conference.

The killing season at the New Zealand Refrigerating Company's works at Burnside closed on Saturday. Owing to the unsatisfactory fattening season and the bad weather the output was about 40,000 sheep and lambs snort of the figures for last season, which was a particularly good one. The output at Burnside was below normal this season, and this will probably be the case with the other South Island refrigerating works.

For some days . Mr. McLean, who is purchasing fat cattle for Melbourne, has been operating in the Wairarapa. A day or two ago he bought about 180 head in the Lower Valley, and some other drafts' are now under consideration. As a matter of fact, there are.not many fat cattle now left in the district.

There has ' been a slackening, in ; the amount of civil business transacted by the Hamilton Magistrate's Court lately- The amount of litigation. in hand is less than it been fox some years. / >.'",! ..> (.; .:. (■.'■.■Jly'.'l .i ... ' '.■.;.';-'• •■ ■'■ "\- I