LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19453, 8 October 1926, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Through being knocked down by a motor-car in Queen Street, Onehunga, yesterday afternoon, Soloman Andrade, aged six years, whose parents reside at 101, Church Street East, Onehunga, received injuries to the head. He was removed to the Auckland Hospital and was reported early this morning to bo progressing as well as could be expected: He had recovered consciousness.

While playing in the grounds of the Mount Albert School yesterday morning Frederick Apuleton aged 12, whose parents reside at 38, Short Street, Morningside, fell and fractured his forearm. He was removed to the hospital, and is progressing satisfactorily.

" Tips we know nothing about," said ,Mr. Justice Frazer, when details oT stewards' wages were mentioned in the Arbitration Court yesterday. "No, sir. We know nothing about them," agreed Mr. T. N. Holmden, for the plaintiff. "I understand they are not given now," said Mr. V. R. Meredith, for the defence. "Since when ?" asked His Honor. Hie question went unanswered.

The action of the One Tree Hill Road Board in starting a fresh set of house numbers in Campbell Road, beginning with No. 1 at Great South Road, instead of following up the sequence from the Onehunga boundary, which commences with No. 1 at the Royal Oak end, was discussed by the Onehunga-Manukau Chamber of Commerce last evening. Several envelopes which had beeu sent to Campbell Road, Grey Lvnn, then to the Ellerslie end of Campbell Road, and finally to the correct destination, wero produced. When the numbering from the Great South Road was completed it would be still worse, for all the letters to Campbell Road that were addressed to a number wuold be delayed by first going to Ellerslie. The same difficulty was already arising over parcels and other goods. It was decided to invite the Onehunga Borough Council to request the One Tree Hill Road Board to discontinue its present system, and to follow on from the Onehunga numbers, just as Onehunga had done in its part of Manukau Road.

A notable addition to Auckland's buildings will he the erection of a four-storeyed reinforced concrete structure in Beach Road for the Christchurch firm of Aulsebrook and Company. Work will be commenced immediately and it is hoped to have the building completed in eight months. The site has a frontage of 40ft. with a depth of 110 ft. Two elevators will be provided, giving easy access to the upper floors. The structure will be finished in the latest style. The' first two floors will be occupied by Messrs. J. F. ShanJy and Co., the firm's Auckland agents, and the remaining space will, be let as offices and showrooms. Tho contractor is Mr. C. A. Lee, the contract price being £II,OOO. Messrs. Chilwell and Trevithick are the architects.

Telegraphing from Tauranga yesterday Mr. R. E. Champtaloup, service officer of the Auckland Automobile Association, said:--"On the Waihi-Tanranga Road fences have been erected across the road, blocking a small stretch. They are unlighted at night. A near-by slip on the railway formation is regarded by the contractors as dangerous to the road. No effort is being made, to reopen the road, which is in bad order owing to heavy lorries on the railway works. This absolute apathy deserves severe criticism. The passenger and mail service is being maintained by cars rnnning from either end of the block."

Unemployment among seamen is very pronounced throughout New Zealand. An official of tho Dunedin branch of the Seamen's Union states that there, is a general slump in shipping, and many intercolonial and coastal traders have been laid up at, various ports. The paying off of the crews of the cargo steamers Waihora and Waikawa and the coaster Kamo at Port Chalmers has resulted in a large number of seamen being relegated to the idle list. It is estimated that fully 150 seamen, firemen .and trimmers are at present idle in Dunedin and Port Chalmers.

"I have never been in a Court before; which is the cheapest?" asked a defendant in the Police Court yesterday, when requested to plead to a charge of allowing his chimney to catch fire. Defendant said he had been experimenting with chimney cleaners, and "it seemed a shame that he had been prosecuted at all." "Be more careful tho next time you experiment," commented the magistrate,. Mr. Hunt, in ordering defendant to pay costs.

A proposal by the Royal Show Carnival Committee, that the business people of the district should co-operate in the shopwindow display of New Zealand goods, was considered by the Onehunga-Manu-kau Chamber of Commerce last evening. The Growers' Association, the Drapers' Association and a number of the leading shop proprietors had already agreed to assist in the movement. Mr. A. G. Houldsworth, secretary of the chamber, said active support was promised from Devonport, Newmarket and Svmonds Street. The president, Mr. H. J. Davies, said he thought that if tbe chamber gave a lead the shops would all join in. The chamber had a surplus of about £4O from the last carnival, and this might be used with advantage for a special competition among the Onehunga shops. A committee was appointed to canvass the shopkeepers and urge upon them tho desirability of decorating their windows during tho carnival week. The committee was empowered to award prizes for the bost decorated shops in Onehunga, in addition to any awards from the Royal Show Committee.

A pupil of the Waitaki Boys' High School, Archie M. Douglas,, has achieved tho distinction of being the, first, colonial schoolboy to contribute to the Oxford publication, "Public School Verse.". Tho rector of the High School lias received advice that the poem, "Beauty's Immortality," is to be. included in volume six of the book.

In an' address to accountant students in Wellington Mr. H. F. O'Loary, solicitor, stated New Zealand's bankruptcy law was in every respect obsolete and a substantial reform should not long be delayed. There had been no material change in it since 1882. He laid stress on the fact that in all the largo countries of the British Empire bankruptcy law had been modernised. In England the law was brought up to date in 1914, while in Australia the Commonwealth Bankruptcy Act, 1924, was claimed to be the best legislation of its kind in the Empire. Canada had recently amended its legislation in regard to bankruptcy and in South Africa a new Bankruptcy Act had been passed t"his year.