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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20563, 14 May 1930, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A waterside worker, Mr. James Kirrano, aged 42, married, of 12, To Marama Avenue, Ellerslie, received an injury to his foot when a (ray of butter, weighing about 30cwt., fell on it when he was assisting to load the steamsr Mataroa at Prince's Wharf early last evening. Mr. Kirrano was removed by tlie St. John Ambulanco to the Auckland Hospital, and after receiving attention ho was able to return to his home. There was no change last evening in the condition of Miss W. Randle, of Malangi, who was seriously injured in a motor-car accident at Ncwstead on Thursday ovening, and was conveyed to the Waikato Hospital. The condition of Mr. Ronald Scott, who received injuries to the head as the result of being thrown from his motor cyclo in Tainui Street, Hamilton, on Monday, is still serious. A grass firo occurred on the slopes of Mount Eden, just below the reservoir, facing Newmarket, shortly after noon yesterday. The Mount Eden brigade was able to extinguish the outbreak without difficulty. The Mount Albert brigade also received a call yesterday to a grass fire in Truro Road, Sandringham, and suppressed the flames before damago was caused to surrounding property. Various nationalities wero represented among the passengers who reached Auckland from Sydney by the Huddart-Parker steamer Ulimaroa yesterday. The list included one German, one Dane, one Swiss, four Yugoslavs and eight Chinese. Tenders have been called for a new post office to bo erected at Mount Albert on tho corner of the New North and Gladstone Roads. The building will bo of one storey, and constructed in brick, on the latest lines. Tho public accoin modation will consist of a porch, with a terra/,zo floor, containing tho posting boxes and a vestibule, 21ft. by 10ft. Tho mail room will be large and will bo arranged to expedite the handling of mails. A new industry will be launched in New Lynn at an early date, when the manufacture of flower pots and other pottery ware will bo commenced on a large scale. One bilge shed is almost completed, and another has been started. It is expected that a good dei.l of local labour will bo utilised when tho works are fairly started. All tho machinery is on order, and is expected to arrive in the course of a few weeks. Tho 65th anniversary of tho arrival in Auckland of the ship Empress occurs today. Tho ship left London on February 3, 1865, with over 270 immigrants on board, and anchored in Rangitoto Channel on May 13, actually landing the following day. When the concrete highway was constructed along tho Great North Road from Point Chevalier to A\widale, it was anticipated that an 18ft. carriageway would be ample. With the advent of a large fleet of motor-buses serving the western suburbs it was found, however, that the width was not sufficient. To remedy this, the City Council has just completed a bitumen strip on either side on tho Waterview end of Avondale, and is continuing tho work to the corner of Rosebank Road to tho full width of the roadway. This will give the business area of Avondale a sealed roadway over tho whole width, as the section from tho Rosebank road corner to the city boundary ia already done. The Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, has consented to open a bazaar in St. Andrew's Hall, New Lynn, on Friday of next week. In a covering letter, in answer to tho request, Major Bathurst, tho Ciovernor-General's private secretary, states that His Excellency, under ordinary circumstances, could not have consented to perform the ceremony, but was doing so as an expression of his admiration of tho fact that the hall was largely the work of tho hands of the Rev. W. Rankin, who had laid all tho brickwork. Tho promise made by the Auckland Transport Board that when tho changeover was made from through buses to bus and tram on the Avondalo service, buses and trams would connect at Point Chevalier Hall without causing delay in transit, has been well kept. Tho new servico has been in operation for over a month, and tho servico appears to bo giving general satisfaction, although naturally western suburban passengers would prefer a servico which did not necessitate a change-over. A sparrow was responsiblo for a fuse occurring in a transformer which connects Tuhikaramea with tho Central Power Board's lines at Frankton on Monday. Tho damage took two hours to repair. Tho sparrow, which had caused a contact between tho lino and tho case of tho transformer, was picked up on tho road with both legs burned off and its body badly charred. A request for a tram shelter at tho corner of Khyber Pass Road and Mountain Road was made to tho Transport Board yesterday by Mr. A. B. Hammond, on behalf of a number of residents. Ho reminded tho board that two years ago, following a petition of residents, it had intimated that a shelter would bo erected as soon as funds permitted. Tho acting-chairman, Mr. G. Baildon, said a design for a stone shelter had been prepared, but when tho tram stop was moved a few yards further up Khyber Pass, at tho request of motorists, nothing was done about a shelter, lb was decided to ask the board's officers for a report and have inquiries inado from tho property-owners affected. "Yes, Your Worship, I've been driving for 30 years and that is tho closest shave I've had," said defendant in a traffic bylaw case in tho Magistrate's Court in Christchurch last week. "You haven't been driving cars for that time ?" asked tho magistrate. "No, sir, horses." When the case concluded defendant remarked to tho polico witness: "I'll take it out of your hide some time." "What was that?" asked Mr. Mosley, S.M. "Did you mean me to hear that?" "No, it was just an aside." "All right, then, I didn t hear it," said Mr. Mosley, with a smile. Many county councils view with alarm tho suggestion that tho Government take over all main highways and administer them direct. At a meeting of tho Wanganui Council last week it was mentioned that if such happened counties would bocome glorified road boards. Discussing the matter informally later, councillors recalled the overlapping of activities when road boards were in existence some years ago. One member remarked that nearly every riding iu tho Wangunui County was a road board and' tho county itself met (inco a month to pass accounts for about £lO. There was far too much duplication and it was a matter of great satisfaction when tho boards went out of existence.