LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20988, 26 September 1931, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

While riding along the Waterfront Road last evening a motor-cyclist, Mr. Woodruff Dwerryhouse, aged 20, suffered injuries to a leg as a result of his machine being involved in a collision with a motor-car. Mr. Dwerryhouse, who lives at 30, Epsom Avenue, Epsom, was removed to the Auckland Hospital.

On charges of theft, two boys and a girl will appear in the Children's Court shortly. It is alleged that tlfe girl broke into a house at Point Chevalier and stole several articles, including a watch. The boys are alleged to have stolen radio parts from a city store.

A large quantity of overseas mail is being brought by the New Zealand Shipping Company's motor-liner Rangitiki, which is due at Auckland from Southampton next Wednesday afternoon. The vessel has 700 bags of ordinary English mail and 400 bags of parcels for New Zealand.

As the result of a mishap affecting one of his legs, a member of the party of English public school boys which passed through Auckland yesterday was unable to join his comrades on a sight-seeing tour of the city. Upon arriving in Auckland he was given medical attention and went straight aboard the Maunganui, on which the party left for Sydney in the afternoon.

The first-class carriages on the two limited expresses between Auckland and Wellington are now of the new luxurious type, and the second-class carriages on both trains will be replaced with new, up-to-date ones on Monday. Of six new second-class carriages from the Otahuhu railway workshops, two will be attached to each train and the other two will be kept as reserve cars.

An extremely keen demand for poul* try, particularly table birds, existed at the Auckland City Markets yesterday. The available supply was smaller than usual, and keen bidding resulted in a sharp increase ip prices, compared with those ruling last week. Prime cockerels of heavy breeds sold well at 6s to 8s 6d each, compared with 5s to 6s 6d a week ago and there was a corresponding rise in the prices of other table birds.

The limited express for Wellington was drawing out of the Auckland railway station last evening when a woman, who was accompanied by a small child, was seen running toward the train. The express was immediately stopped and porters hastened to help a seemingly belated passenger board the train. The woman, however, was not an intending traveller and, as the train moved off again, showed the reason for her frantic haste by embracing a woman passenger through a carriage window.

Dominion Day, which was inaugurated to commemorate the raising of New Zealand in 1907 from the status of colony to that of Dominion, will be observed on Monday. The day is not a general holiday, but is kept as such by banks and Government offices, legal offices, the Supreme Court, the Stock Exchange and members of the Real Estate Institute.

The fact that the first agricultural show was held in Auckland in 1853, 78 years ago, was mentioned by the president, Mr. J. T. F. Mitchell, at the annual meeting of the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association yesterday. Mr. Mitchell said no complete records of the first show were available, but he understood it was a very "tin-pot" affair, held at the foot of Queen Street.

A link with the history of New Zealand was provided with the arrival in the Dominion this week of Viscount Cranley, who passed through Auckland yesterday with the party of English public school boys who are on their way to tour Australia. Viscount Cranley, who was born on June 11, 1913, is the heir of the sth Earl of Onslow, and a grandson of the 4th Earl, who was Governor of New Zealand from 1889 to 1892. The sth Earl of Onslow succeeded to the title in 1911. Viscount Cranley was educated at Winchester, and has passed the examination for entry to Sandhurst, where he will commence to study for a military career upon his arrival Home from Australia.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse. This fact was illustrated in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when the owner of a radio-receiving set admitted he had made no attempt to Tiay his licence fee. He said that although he purchased his set some months ago and had used it regularly he was not aware of his obligations until prosecuted. "You must surely have been the only listener-in in New Zealand who did not know that a licence was required for his set," remarked tho magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt. A fine of £l, with costs, 13s, was imposed.

An opinion that too little knowledge of architectural forms was possessed by painters was expressed by Professor C. R Knight in a lecture before the Auckland Society of Arts yesterday. It might be said that an artist reproduced only what he saw, but the subject actually involved more than that. If painters knew architecture better they would understand the traditional forms to a greater degree and interpret more effectively tho spirit of a building. The speaker suggested that this aspect was worthy of consideration by the society.

"The greatest loss sustained by the band this year was the transfer of Captain G. L. Buckley to the post of conductor to the Auckland Municipal Band in December last," slated tho secretary in tho annual report of the Queen Alexandra Band, Wanganui. "Captain Buckley had been with the band since 1910, and during his conductorship the band attended many contests both in the North and Soutl? Islands. It is pleasing to note that under his baton tho band won many contests and also held the Dominion championship for two years running—in 1927 and 1928, while they were second in the contest held at Wanganui in 1929 when the St. Kilda Band of Dunedin was placed first." concluded the secretary.

With the coming of spring tho results of the extensive work carried out on the Morningside Reserve, Mount Albert, by unemployment relief labour are beginning to show. The hillsides, which were stripped of gorse, were sown in grass, which is now coming away well, and a large plantation of trees and shrubs on tho slopes appears to be flourishing. The sports grounds already laid out are in good order and the construction of the carriage-way through the grounds is proceeding rapidly. Only a comparatively small area now remains to show that once the whole reserve was ft rough expanse of scoria country.