LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21940, 25 October 1934, Page 12

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hurt in Fall from Cycle As the result of a fall from a bicycle in Hinemoa Street, Hamilton, yesterday afternoon, Mr. Albert Garland, aged 56, was admitted to the Waikato Hospital suffering from head injuries. His condition is not serious. Meat From School Farm A suggestion that sheep gazing on the Mount Albert Grammar School farm could be killed and dressed and tho meat sent to the school hostel was made by the headmaster, Mr. F. W. Gamble, in a letter received by tho Auckland Grammar School Board yesterday "Slaughtering should bo part of a farmer's training," said Mr. A. St. C. Brown. The board authorised tho purchase of butchers' tools valued at £1 lis. "Splendid Humane Service" "The St. John Ambulance Association is one of the finest services in the Dominion," said Mr. W. G. Mulholland at a meeting of the One Tree Hill Borough Council last night. "Wo frequently see in the newspapers and elsewhere that no distance is too great for the ambulances to cover, and altogether the association performs a splendid humane work." It was decided to make a donation of £5 ss, compared with £2 2s last year. Memories of Tourists "Tourists have longer memories than most people, especially for the hardest bed, tho worst meal and places where they could not get a bottle of wine when they wanted one," said Mr. R. H. Nesbitt, trade and tourist commissioner for Australia, in the course of a luncheon address to tho Auckland Travel Club yesterday. Little touches of courtesy also were remembered, he said, and were most necessary when dealing with tourists. Increased Building Activity "With two and a-half months to go before the end of the year, last year's value of building permits has already been exceeded by £420," stated tho building inspector for the One Tree Hill borough, Mr. P. H. Hollingsworth, in a report to last night's meeting of the Borough Council. Since tho beginning of the year 73 building permits, valued at £20,760, had been issued. The number in tho past fortnight was five, valued at £2428, including one for a dwelling costing £1953. Wallabies on Rangitoto The extensive damage done by wallabies to the native plants and trees on Rangitoto was emphasised in a letter from Miss L. M. Cranwell, botanist to the Auckland War Memorial Museum, received at a meeting of the Rangitoto Island Domain Board last night. Numerous proposals for exterminating the animals on the island were heard, including a suggestion that the domain should be opened to trappers. It was decided to defer the matter until the members of the board could make a tour of the island. Anzac Avenue Buildings A complaint that many of the buildings in Anzac Avenue were not in keeping with the name of the street, was made by Mr. S. Irwin Crookes in opening the annual exhibition of the Auckland University College School of Architecture yesterday. The street, he said, always gave him a feeling of depression. He thought it a pity the owners of some properties in the street had not kept in mind the dignity the name perpetuated. Beauty and utility could be combined at no great cost. Laid-up Steamer After being alongside the Western Wharf for six weeks undergoing inspection and having minor repairs carried out, the Union Company's cargo steamer Waiotapu is to return to the anchorage in the stream this morning to be further laid up for an indefinite period. The vessel was employed in the transpacific cargo service for a number of years, but was withdrawn from commission three years ago. She was taken to an anchorage in the stream in December, 1931, and remained idle there until she was brought to the Western Wharf on September 18. Localities of Fires A sailing vessel, a church presbytery, and a railway signal box are included in the wide range of localities in which fires have occurred in the Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board's district in the six months ended September 30, according to a report presented by the superintendent, Mr. W. L. W T ilson, at a meeting of the board yesterday. Other places in which there were outbreaks included a brewery, a freezing works, a building in course of erection, a boat shed, wood-working factories of various kinds, an iron foundry, licensed and private hotels, an optician's premises and a jeweller's shop. Work Among Maoris Owing to the effective work of the Anglican vicar of Clevedon, the Rev. W. H. Heaslip, the excitement among some of the Maoris of the district, which reached a climax about two months ago when they were awaiting the end of the world, has ceased. Mr. Heaslip has visited the Maoris regularly, and on Sunday a special service was held in the Maori church at Mataitai, when the vicar baptised his own infant son and a Maori boy of the.same age. The church was filled to overflowing. A notable feature was that fully 9U per cent of the natives involved present at tho service. Dominion as Holiday Resort The suitability of Australia and New Zealand as holiday resorts for Europeans living in the Orient was mentioned by Mr. R. H. Nesbitt, trade and tourist commissioner for Australia, in an address to members of the Auckland Travel Club yesterday. These countries, said Mr. Nesbitt, could offer a temperate climate, and, what was more important, visitors from the East could spend their holidays among people of their own race and interests. When they returned they were the best possible advertisement Australia and New Zealand could have in the East, for they talked to other residents and induced them to come. In the Wrong Room Five minutes before the civic reception to General Sir Alexander Godley and Lady Godley, at noon yesterday, the gathering in the City Council chamber at the Town Hall could only be described as meagre, but within a few minutes the room rapidly filled, and, soon after the speech-making had started, there was a large incursion into the gallery. The simple explanation was that a number of people, seeing the main vestibule door open, had entered and made their way into the concert chamber, where community singing was about to begin. Some time later they were apprised of their mistake and' lost no time in departing to the right room,.