LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20595, 20 June 1930, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The condition of Mr. George Rumble, of SI Heliers Bay, who was injured when his motor-car crashed into a centrepole on the Great South Road on Wednesday evening, was reported yesterday by the hospital authorities to be satisfactory. Mr. Rumble received injuries to the head.

While playing football at the Mount Eden School yesterday morning Stewart C. Taylor, aged eight years, who lives at 80, Valley Road, Mount Eden, slipped and suffered a fracture of the thigh. After receiving medical attention from Dr. M. G. Pezaro, be was conveyed to the Auckland Hospital by the St. John ambulance. The boy is progressing satisfactorily.

The crash of breaking glass echoed among the shops in Victoria Street North, Hamilton, yesterday morning, when a large plate-glass window in the furniture shop of J. W. Belz and Company fell in splinters on to the footpath. The accident was caused by a roll of linoleum which was being placed in position in the newly-dressed window. Before it could be intercepted the roll crashed against the glass with considerable force, and completely wrecked the window.

The four-masted barque Rewa will be towed from her anchorage off Birkenhead to Moturekareka Island, in the Hauraki Gulf, on Monday morning, provided the weather is favourable. The Rewa has been sold for use as a breakwater at the island after being idle for a number of years. Some of the yards and rigging on the vessel have been removed, and she has been patched and made seaworthy for tho trip H.M.S. Philomel, training ship at tho Devonport naval base, is to go into dock on Monday morning for the first timo since March, 1926. Tho four years' accumulation of marine growth is to be removed from her hull, which will afterwards bo painted. The training ship is without propellers, and tugs will be used to move her into dock. Formerly an active cruiser, H-M.S. Philomel was commissioned in 1892. She was present at the bombardment of Zanzibar, and during the Great War saw service in tho Red Sea and Persian Gulf. No longer fit for active service, sho was brought to Auckland some years ago, and has sinco been berthed at Devonport.

While tho occupants of a house in Garry Street, Mount Eden, were entertaining guests on Wednesday evening ono of the bedrooms was entered and a purse containing about £1 in casli was stolen. The empty purse was found outside the window. The intruder was neither ~see.n nor heard by the occupants of the house.

The provision of an ambulance for the Northcote and Birkenhead end of the combined district of the North Shore boroughs has been referred to the Finance Committeo of the Auckland Hospital Board for consideration. The committee will report on the mattA- at the next meeting of the board.

A complaint regarding noise from the engineering workshop of tho Seddori Memorial Technical College was received by tho board of managers yesterday from the owners of houses in the vicinity. Members considered it would bo impossible to eliminate noise during working hours, from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m., and it was staled that tho area was an industrial one. It was decided to reply to this effect.

A special order was passed by the Auckland City Council yesterday changing the names of tho streets officially known as College Road and Archhill Road to College Hill and Tuarangi Road respectively.

Twenty buses which wcro acquired by tho Auckland City Council from privato companies a few years ago were offered at auction afc the Gaunt Street depot yesterday. It was explained that owing to the various extensions to tho tram routes the Transport Board had no further use for these buses. None was sold afc auction, but a few were sold afterwards. Reference to the proposed abolition of tho New Zealand Territorial Army was made by General Sir George Richardson at a meeting of the general executive of the Returned Soldiers' Association last evening. He said that critics often said tho territorials were not effectively trained for war and during the Inst war had to bo retrained. He pointed out that the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli was nothing but a territorial army. The trench warfare in Franco was a new system of lighting and had to bo learnt by everyone however and whereever trained.

There is something at least which is not affected by bad times, according to a public accountant who gave evidence in tho Supreme Court in Wellington tho other day on tho computation of a restaurant proprietor's goodwill. "Have you taken into consideration tho present financial stringency in compiling these figures?" was a question tho accountant was asked by counsol. "Yes I have," replied tho witness, "but I feel that people have to eat whether times arc bad or not."

A remit that German names such as Mount Moltke, Mount Roon, Mount Bismarck and Kaiser Fritz Range in the nomenclature of prominent features of the Southern Alps should bo abolished, is to bo brought before tho forthcoming Dominion conferenco of tho Returned Soldiers' Association. It will he submitted by the Wellington Association.

A constable, giving evidence in a case at tho Magistrate's Court in Christchurch last week, stated that a horso which had run away was galloping along tho street at 40 miles an hour! "Forty miles an hour?" queried tho senior sergeant. Some horso!" There was further amusement when the constable amended his statement to 20 miles an hour.

Since tho war broko out in 1914, Sergeant Major Bezar, of Wellington, one of tho survivors of tho old "Diehards," has compiled over 300 volumes of war

and other leading news, of which 28 volumes aro war cables, and eight "Roll of Honour." Ho lias given 80 volumes to public hospitals, 60 to the Wellington prisons and to New Plymouth prison, 30 to Newtown Library, and others. 110 wishes to placo the war cables and "Roll of Honour" in tho Public Library in Wellington, but the City Council is only willing to accept them as a free gift. As Mr. Beznr has spent about £7O on their compilation, ho says ho considers that the city should pay something for tho volumes Ho suggests that the public should siibsoibs £35, and thus secure au interesting record of the war.