LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19298, 10 April 1926, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The daylight limited express from Wellington reached Auckland last evening with passengers standing in both the first and second-class carriages. There had been a considerable number of passengers all the way from the South, but a large number joined the train at Frankton to come up to Auckland for the races. The train was 10 minutes late, but this was caused only by delays on the line in crossings with other trains. The grave of Captain William Hobson, R.N., the first Governor of New Zealand, who died, on September 10, 1842, and was buried in the Symonds Street cemetery, is to be marked by a suitable memorial. The grave, which is near the Symonds Street end of Grafton Bridge, is marked by an ordinary headstone. The Department of Internal Affairs has decided to call tenders for the erection at the grave of an obelisk monument, which will form a much more fitting memorial to a man who holds an honoured position in the history of New Zealand. A 16-year-old girl, Iris Robertson, of 51, Panmure Road, Otahuhu, collided with a motor-car as she was cycling along the Great South Road, Otahuhu, yesterday afternoon. She was admitted to the Auckland Hospital at 2.45 p.m., and her injuries proved to be scalp wounds and an injury to the right ear. Her condition is not serious. Another minor accident occurred yesterday afternoon, when a quarryman at the Morningside quarry, Mr. Alexander Wynd, slipped on a tramline and fell on the sharp end of a rail, cutting the back of bis head. He was admitted at 4.40 p.m., but his condition gave rise to no alarm. The City Fire Brigade received a call just before midnight last night to a tailor's shop in Wellesley Street West, occupied by Messrs. Nicholas and Daisley. The outbreak proved to be in the workroom at the back of the shop, where some cuttings on a table were burning, but the flames were quickly extinguished with a chemical hose. The only damage done was to some of the cuttings. At 7.25 p.m. the brigade received a call to Marine Parade, Heme Bay, but thfs proved to be a false alarm. " Traffic control in Auckland is infinitely more efficient than in any other city in the Dominion," said a motorist yesterday, who hails from Dunedin and has bad extensive driving experience in every centre. " I regret that I have to return to the South. The remarkable civility of both - traffic inspectors and police i.n Auckland impresses the visitor. They seem to combine courtesy with efficiency in a way which I have not seen elsewhere in New Zealand or experienced while motoring in Sydney, Melbourne, or I Adelaide." he added. There was a sitting of the Assessment ! Court of the Newmarket Borough Council yesterday, Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., presiding. As none of the five persons who had lodged objections put in an appearance all were struck out. The work of renovating the graves of those who fell in the Maori War is at present engaging the attention of the Department of Internal Affairs. At the cemeteries at St. Stephen's in Parnell and a£ Pokeno the work has been completed. Concrete tomb slabs liave boon placed over the graves and marble tablets erected. At Pokeno the stone cairn has been rebuilt' and both cemeteries have been placed in neat order. The graves of pioneers connected with the early days |of the settlement have also been renovated. Men are now engaged in similar work at the Symonds Street cemetery and very shortly the graves of 180 soldiers who fell in the battle of Rangiriri in 1864 will be attended to on similar linos. A postcard which has been on an adventurous journey to the Arctic rogions and which has taken almost 80 years to roach its destination from Christiania, the capital of Norway, which has since been renamed Oslo, was received in Auckland this week. It was addressed by the firm of Mustad and Son to Messrs H. E. Partridge, and Company, Ltd., but was received by their successors, Messrs. Malcoltnn Wiseman, Ltd. It was posted on Juno 25, 1918, with instructions that it should await at. the lonely northern port of Pdhavet tho coming of Amnndsen's ship the Maud when Ire set out on his projected journey to the North Pole. Amundsen's attempt was long delayed and it was not until August 4, 1924, that the letter was reposted at Polhavet after having been carried by the Maud to the mask northerly point readied hv her. The journey back to civilisation has been a slow one, but the card arrived saff-ly at its destination. Application has been made by yachtsmen for permission to haul up boats on tho beach at Judge's Bay during the winter, the City Council having previously decided that eventually this practice must cease. It was suggested at the time that women and children were debarred from using portions of the beach by reason of the presence of the boats and it was suggested that the work carried out by yachtsmen on Sundays was not a good example to the youth of the district. The Parks Committee, which controls this area, recommended to the council on Thursday that yachtsmen be permitted to winter their boats on the beach, using only the area from the eastern end to the acacia tree and that only one tier of boats be allowed. It was further suggested that the beach be cleared of all boats by November 30, and all sheds be removed by December 31 next. It was also recommended that no Sunday work on the boats he permitted. These roconiendations were adopted. The Pacific Cable Board's steamer Iris will leave Auckland on Monday morning to repair a fault, in the Eastern Extrusion Company's cable between Wellington and Sydney. The fault is about 370 miles from Wellington. Given favourable weather conditions the Iris will he away from Auckland for about 10 days. Among the new regulations governing tho grading of primary school teachers, states a Press Association message, is one designed to meet the case of young teachers who take positions in the hackblocks with higher salaries than properly belong to their grades. Extra pay has to be given to make these appointments attractive and this means higher grading out of proportion to the teachers' experience. They cannot keep up to the effiiciency marks required of that particular grade and the regulations now provide that, in such cases, teachers shall be treated according to the grade to which ti,e inspectors consider they properly belong. Another regulation provides somewhat similarly for New Zealand teachers who take service in South Sea schools.