LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21349, 25 November 1932, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Naval Base Inspection The 13th Coast Battery, N.Z. Artillery, which mans Fort Cautley, will pay a visit of inspection to the Devonport Naval Base to-morrow afternoon. The party will include Captain S. Lockhart, Lieutenant J. C. Holland and Lieutenant B. Tansley.

Paraguay's National Day The 62nd anniversary of the constitution of Paraguay as a republic falls (o-day, and to mark the occasion national flags will be flown from the various consulates in Auckland. Paraguay is a Bmall inland State in South America and has a population of about 800,000. Mr. A. E. Kernot is the consul in Auckland.

Rangitane's English Mail A heavy consignment of English mail for New Zealand, comprising 1000 bags of letters and 350 bags of parcels, was brought bv the motor-ship Rangitane, which reached Wellington from London yesterday afternoon. Letter mail for Auckland will arrive here this morning, while newspapers and parcels will not reach the city until to-morrow morning. Youth Missing

A youth, John Kavanagh, has been missing from his homo in St. Mary's Bay Road for over a fortnight. He is 17 years of age, but looks younger. He has fair hair and complexion and a high colour, and is about sft. 4in. in height. He was wearing navy blue coat and shorts, grey flannol shirt and grey pull-over, and black stockings. His name is on his coat and singlet.

Coal for American Navy The American steamer Golden Cloud is expected at Westport from Sydney on Monday to load coal for the United States Navy at Pago Pago, where one vessel is permanently stationed. The last time a shipment of coal was made from New Zealand to the Pago Pago naval station was last November, when the Golden Cloud was, by a coincidence, the vessel to take the cargo. Glen Innes Domain A number of ratepayers having petitioned for the improvement of the Glen Innes Domain, Tamaki, the City Council decided last evening to spend £4B on fencing, planting shelter trees to be supplied by the petitioners, erecting two open dressing sheds at the beach and forming a turning-place for cars at the foot of the road. It was stated that there was £66 available in the domain account.

Low-priced Sugar A large sale of beet sugar made by the representative of a German manufacturer at £2 per ton, c.i.f., London, came under the notice of Sir Harold Beauchamp when he was in London recently. On his return to Wellington yesterday he told an interviewer that Fiji sugar prices were depressed by the inordinately low prices ruling in various parts of the world. The particular sale to which- he referred would, of course, entail enormously heavy loss to the producer, for the transit charges alone from Germany to London would amount to something like 18s a ton.

Domain Meeting Banned Application was made to the City Council last evening, on behalf of the Auckland Joint Council, a committee representing 33 trade unions and certain of the unemployed, for permission to use the Domain on Sunday, December 4, for a meeting to protest against the wages tax, the treatment of the unemployed and certain legislation. The letter stated that the Domain was considered more suitable than Victoria Park, and the council could be assured of the good conduct of the meeting. It was decided to adhere to a previous decision that the use of Victoria Park only should bo granted.

Library Subscribers The lending department of the Grafton branch library exists more for the benefit of residents in the boroughs of Mount Eden and Mount. Albert than of residents in Auckland City, which maintains the libinry. A return supplied to the City Council Inst evening showed that only 31 per cent of the Grafton subscribers and depositors had given addresses in Auckland City. As some of these were business addresses, some of the 31 per cent were believed to reside outside the city. The percentages of city addresses for the other libraries were:—Central, 57; Avondale, 88; Epsom, 85; Grey Lynn, Painell, 98; Point Chevalier, 85; Remtipra, 99A; Tamaki, 100. Long Trip by Launch

Advice was received in Auckland that the new tourist launch Tinopai, which left Auckland on Monday afternoon for Picton, reached Wellington at 5.15 p.m. yesterday. In a message to the builders, Messrs. Collings and Bell, the owner, Captain M. Steele, said the trip down the coast from Napier had been very rough, but the Tinopai proved herself to be a wonderful sea boat. Captain Steele has with him a crew of six, who are making a pleasure cruise, and it is their intention to spend two or three days in Wellington before setting out on the final stage of the journey to Picton. The new launch is to be used for tourist and passenger work in the Marlborough Sounds. A Beginner's Luck

In a happy speech at the opening of the children's playing apparatus in the Grey Lynn Domain yesterday, Mr. John Court told the children of his first experience of cricket. " I once went on to a ground whero a batsman had been in all day and no efforts could put him out," he said. " When it was suggested that 1 should take a bowl, I agreed, after admitting that I had never hold a cricket ball in my hand before. To everyone's surprise, and my own especially, I bowled the batsman with my second ball. My luck did not hold, however, when I tried to bat, and I was bowled first ball. I protested that I was not ready, and once again I was clean-bowled." An Historic Anniversary

By a decision in Parliament made 69 years ago to-morrow, Auckland virtually ceased to bo tho political capital of New Zealand, although the seat of Government was not moved to Wellington until 1865. For 11 years beforo that Parliament had met in Auckland in the old wooden buildings just below the Supreme Court, which were demolished in 1918 in order to make way for the Anzac Avenue traffic outlet. The change of capital was deemed desirable mainly on account of tho lack of transport facilities in those days, and the difficulty experienced by Southern members in reaching Auckland, and also in view of the attitude of hostile natives in the Auckland district. A commission" was set up to determine the most suitable site for tho capital and Wellington was selected owing to her central position.