LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22544, 8 October 1936, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Air Mall on Oil Tank«r An Australian mail and an Empire air mail which was despatched from London on Scjrtember 21 are expected to reach Wellington from Sydney by the oil tanker Eclipse to-morrow. The vessel has 16 bags of mail for Auckland. Ketch i!or Sunday Island The Australian ketch Yvonne is to leave Auckland to-day for Sunday Island, one of the Kermadec Group. The yacht will take provisions to the men who are living on the island. She will carry a crew of three and two passengers and is to return to Auckland in about three weeks. <. Motor-cyclist's Troubles "I have had a lot of trouble with my machine," said a motor-cyclist who was charged in thp Magistrate's Court yesterday with causing undue noise. "Ihe exhaust pipe fell off and later the cylinder came to pieces." "I am sorry to add to your troubles," said the magistrate, Mr. W. R. McKean. "You are fined 10s." Grading of Schools Information was received by the Auckland Education Board yesterday that'the Education Department had decided to grade secondary departments of district high schools next year on the roll number on March 1. This would bring such secondary departments into line with the practice in respect to secondary and intermediate schools. First ('ase Won Unofficial congratulations were freely extended at the close of the Supreme Court sittings yesterday to Miss M. H oil way, LL.M., Auckland's woman barrister, who had won her first case. The proceedings lasted for .a day and a-half, and the case is believed to be the first to be conducted by a woman in the history of the Auckland Bar. North Shore Ambulance

The Birkenhead Borough Council last night decided to request the St. John Ambulance Association to provide a better ambulance on the North Shore. Mr. H. W. Lamb stated that recently he had occasion to take his daughter to the Auckland Hospital. He would prefer to ride in a tradesman's vehicle to the Devonport ambulance, which was most uncomfortable.

Increase in Building " This increase of 100 per cent is very gratifying," said the Mayor of One Tree Hdl. Mr. I. J. Goldstine, when referring to the report of the building inspector at a meeting of the Borough Council last night. Since the beginning of the year the council has issued 95 building permits, for work costing £69,089, compared with 75 permits, valued at £34,798, for the same period last year. " Penny For the Guy "

Although November the Fifth is still a month away, youthful supporters of Guy Fawkes have already made their appearance in the city, and last night several small boys, grotesquely clad, and with blackened faces, were rattling improvised money boxes in front of pedestrians Their efforts to collect money for the purchase of fireworks to celebrate the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot were only moderately well rewarded.

Local Body Purchases Following dissension among members, which resulted in two meetings ending abruptly, a suggestion was made at last night's meeting of the Takapuna Borough Council by the Mayor, Mr. J. Guiniven, that some departure should be made from, the existing system of purchasing materials. Several members spoke against the proposal. A motion was carried that the chairman of the Works Committee and the borough engineer be authorised in future to purchase materials on behalf of the council.

Visitor to Supreme Court An interested spectator of the conduct of business in the Supreme Court yesterday was Judge H. P. Woods, Chief Justice of American Samoa. In the downstairs Court, which he visited first, Judge Wood heard argument by a woman barrister, Miss M. Hollway, in a disputed will case, which was being tried by Mr. Justice Fair. Later Judge Wood sat with Mr. Justice Johnston in the upper Courtroom, and listened to argument in chambers regarding the domicile of the petitioner in divorce proceedings.

Glasses on Passenger Liners In future there will not be a third class in the passenger accommodation on the New Zealand Shipping Company's " Rangi " liners, although three classes of passengers will still be carried. The accommodation will be designated first class, tourist A class and tourist B class. The Rangitiki, which is due at Wellington from London on October 21, is the first of, the three vessels to have tourist A and B class passengers, and the third class will be eliminated from the accommodation on the Rangitata and Rangitane before*! they leave London for New Zealand.

Great South Eoad Repairs A portion of the Great South Road immediately south of Kihikihi, three miles beyond To Awamutu, has been closed for the purpose of draining and filling, which is being carried out in connection with the reconstruction of the highway. According to advice received by the Automobile Association (Auckland), extra men are being placed on the section by the Public Works Department and, if fine weather prevails, it is hoped to have the work sufficiently, advanced for the main road to be reopened by the week-end. A metalled detour is available, which, although necessitating an extra two miles' travelling, should provide more comfortable conditions than the section of the main road unilcr reconstruction. The detour will be sign-posted this morning. Two Museums "After visiting the Auckland War Memorial Museum many times it gives ono a rather odd feeling to go into the new National Museum," said an Aucklander lately returned from Wellington. "The two buildings are so much alike—on the ground floor, at any rate—and yet so different. Each is on a hill looking north over the harbour. One has the Cenotaph in front of it, the other the tall carillon tower; each has a fine portico with tall pillars and a central hall full of Maori houses and canoes arranged in the same way. In fact, the Wellington museum is the Auckland one altered as familiar things are altered in dreams. One difference is the amount of colour used in the interior decoration. This hardly seemed to be an improvement. The exhibits provide plenty of colour, and the light grey and. white of the Auckland building give a feeling of spaciousness that is lacking in Wellington. The art gallery upstairs is excellent, and if some of the rooms are rather dimly lit one is at least saved the usual annoying reflections, from the picture glasses."