LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19736, 8 September 1927, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Suffering from scalp injuries a young woman, Sophia Shepherd, aged 19, of 56, Wellington Street, was admitted to the Auckland Hospital yesterday. In connection with the incident a young man was arrested by the police on a charge of assault. The young woman's condition is not regarded as serious.

A two-seater motor-car which was turning from Shorlland Street collided with the centre-polo in Queen Street shortly after 5.30 last evening. The front mudguards and the headlights were damaged artd the axle was twisted.

A surprising request for a loan of a horse and gig was made by a boy to the woman owner at Otahuhu yesterday and, even more surprising, tho woman consented. The woman expected t be detained at a dentist's for some t and tho boy asked for the loan of the conveyance to drive to the YVcstfield saleyards and back. Instead he took tho Great South Road for Auckland and had reached the waterfront when tho police intervened. Meanwhile the owner of horse and gig became anxious, but had hardly complained to the Otahuhu polico when she received tho glad news that her property had been recovered and placed in a city stable.

Auckland dentists do appear to take very seriously the reference to world-wide slow poisoning as the effect of using cheap composition in filling teeth. The reference was made at a congress of German dentists, being held this week. Whatever may be tho position elsewhere danger of this kind, it was stated, is not known to exist in New Zealand.

A shipment of ten tons of maize arrived at Auckland yesterday by the Northern Company's steamer Apanui from Te Kao, Parengarenga. The maize was grown in connection with the Tokerau Maori Land Board farmer scheme for Maoris, under the direction of Mr. A. H. Watt.

"It is like Tennyson's 'Brook'—it goes on for ever," said the chairman, Mr. A Burns, at a meeting of the Auckland Education Board' yesterday, referring to the consideration being given by the Syllabus Revision Committee to the question of the style of writing to bo taught in schools. A letter was received from the Education Department stating that the question of handwriting was under consideration, and that attention would be given to the resolution of the Auckland Primary School Committees' Association that cursivo writing should be made a compulsory subject.

The management committee of the Auckland Rugby Union decided last evening to forward letters of congratulation to Mr. C. E. MacCormick, Judge of the Native Land Court, on his appointment as a member of the Samoan ,Commission of Inquiry, and to Mr. V. R. Meredith, Crown prosecutor at Auckland, on being appointed to represent the Crown at the inquiry. Mr. MacCormick was at one time secretary and treasurer of tho Auckland Rugby Union, and Mr. Meredith is at present the union's sole selector.

Two motor-cars, one of which has not been recovered yet, were unlawfully removed on Tuesday evening. A two-seater car owned by Mr. L. V. Corpe, of Windmill Road, was taken from St. George's Bay Road, and was recovered in the Newton district yesterday. A Buick car owned by Mr. J. N Hislop, .of 33, St. Stephen's Avenue, Parnell, was taken from outside his residence, and is still missing.

A decision to amend the traffic by-laws to provide that cars might be parked on the eastern side of Broadway, Newmarket, between the council chambers and the railway station entrance, without restriction as to time, between 7.30 p.m. and 1 a.m., was made by the Borough Council last evening. In a report, the Streets Committee stated it considered the present by-law was oppressive, in so far as it restricted standing time. Greater latitude was needed in the case of people attending places of amusement.

'"That is where we failed in the past. We did not protest enough against the removal of Education Board powers," said a member of the Auckland Education Board yesterday, when Mr. G. Brovmlee suggested that a protest should be made against the proposal of the Education Department to take over control of school agricultural instructors. It was decided to carry out Mr. Brownlee's suggestion.

There will be no sittings of the Supreme Court next Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. Mr. Justice Stringer, who is tee only Judge in Auckland at present, will leave for Wellington on' Sunday evening to attend a meeting of the Prisons Board. He will return to Auckland by train next Thursday morning.

An application to hold a "penny day" at city and suburban schools to obtain money for the relief of unemployment was received by the Education Board from tl\e Auckland Unemployed Association yesterday. The chairman, Mr. A. Burns, said all contributions would be voluntary. As a rule the board did not approve of such collections, but the idea was a very worthy ono. It was decided to treat the case as a special one and give tho necessary authority to headmasters, subject to the consent of tho committees.

The lambing season in tho Wanganui back country has begun in earnest and good percentages are reported by flockmasters In many localities where wild pigs took heavy toll last year this menace is strangely absent. Given suitable weather the season is expected to bo an outstandingly good one.

Reference to tho theft of shrubs and plants from tho grounds of tho Royal Oak School was made at a meeting of the school committee this week. It was stated that tho public had been allowed to use the grounds as a. connection between two roads. However, persons had been found loitering on the property, and no small amount of damage had been done. It was decided. to ask tho police to tako action against anyone found loitering on the grounds after school hours.

"it is not much use people coming here to say that their cars are not capable of the speed, or will fall to pieces if they are driven at the rate stated, if the evidence shows that the by-law was broken," remarked Mr. E. C. Lcvvey, S.M., in the Gisborne Magistrate's Court last week, when a motorist was charged under the borough by-laws with dangerous driving. In fining dedefendant £6 and costs, 10s, tho magistrate remarked: "It is fortunate for him that the charge was brought under tho by-laws, which do not give ine powgS to jtakg away feis licence."