LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23012, 13 April 1938, Page 14

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Easter Holidays The Herald will not be published on Good Friday. For the convenience of advertisers the Queen Street office will be open to-morrow (Thursday) until 10 p.m. and on Friday from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. On Saturday and Monday the office will be open during the usual hours. New Huapai Station The small railway station at Huapai has recently been shifted 49 chains further north, partly to avoid stopping the trains on the grade on this section of the line and also to provide a more central station for the district. There is good road access to the new station. Daylight Limited Express The daylight limited express will commence its Easter timetable to-day, leaving Auckland at 8 a.m. and Wellington at 8.15 a.m. The train will run to-morrow and on Easter Monday and Tuesday. Auckland bookings fc the train are not heavy, although the afternoon and limited expresses to-day are full trains. Three expresses for Wellington to-morrow also are fully booked. Oentennial Committees All but one of the sub-committees attached to the Auckland Metropolitan Executive of the Provincial Centenrrvl Council have now elected their chairmen and when the remaining appointment is made the personnel of the executive will be complete. The publicity committee lias chosen Mr. F. H. de Malmanche as its chairman and the sporting events committee has elected Mr. W. K. Fee. Relative of Seddon Occupying a prominent position in the stateroom of the commander of the Empress of Britain, Captain W. G. Busk-Wood, is a portrait of the late Rt. Hon. Richard John Seddon. Near it are a number of works on Mr. Scrldon's career. The reason for their inclusion among his personal possessions, said Captain Busk-Wood, was that he was a relative of the former New Zealand Premier and had a great admiration for him. Excursion to Stewart la?and When the Tama tea loft Bluff last week for Stewart Island she carried on board more than 100 country residents of Southland who will spend a week's holiday on the island. The weather was j perfect and Foveaux Strait was crossed under ideal conditions. A full proeranime of trips and entertainments j was arranged for the party, which will return home to-morrow. The Tamatca will take a second party to the island in «a fortnight. Canada and War

Should Great Britain go to war, Canada would have no hesitation in taking part, said Mr. G. E. Burdiek, a Vancouver stockbroker, who arrived at Auckland yesterday by the Empress of Britain. A year or more ago, he said, the subject was highly controversial in most parts of Canada, but within recent months opinions had crystallised into the general attitude that the country owed much to England, and would support her as occasion warranted. Loan for Harbour Works A formal resolution to apply to the Local Government Loans Board for its sanction to the raising of a loan of £200,000 for harbour works, was passed at a meeting of the Auckland Harbour Board yesterday. The chairman, the Hon. T. Bloodworth, M.L.C., said no objections had been received to the proposal. Mr. H. R. Mackenzie suggested that the term should be altered from 30 years to 20 years, as he felt sure that people would not invest their money for .30 years at 3J per cent. No amendment was put and the formal resolution was carried. Physical Culture at Sea Full facilities for carrying out almost every phase of physical culture during a voyage are provided on the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain, which reach/ed Auckland yesterday. In addition to the magnificent Olympic swimming pool, a gymnasium with three instructors possesses what is probably the fullest range of equipment seen in Auckland and well-staffed massage rooms and Turkish baths are also available for passengers. If further exercise should bo needed, one has only to make four circuits of the promenade deck to have completed a mile walk.

City Enrolments A further 21 SO names were added to the city's supplementary roll yesterday, bringing the total to 17,163. This number, added to the aggregate of the names on the main roll, makes a total of 63,010 electors qualified to vote at the municipal election on May 11. The supplementary roll will close at 5 p.m. to-day. In the last few days a considerable number of duplicate applications for enrolment have been received at the Town Hall, the result of overenergetic canvassing. One party of canvassers who established themselves at a recent football match sent in a great nuhiber of applications. Among these, however, were applications from people who reside in suburban areas and have no interest in the city poll.

Collapse o! Pile Driver Only a few minutes after a number of women and children had boarded a ferry boat at Bayswater yesterday afternoon, pile driving machinery on a transport punt moored against the wharf collapsed and crashed on to the decking. The machinery was erected on the punt for the purpose of pile driving and lifting and just after the arrival of the 2.15 ferry boat from Auckland the crew of the punt was engaged in lifting a heavy pile. Suddenly the lifting wire snapped and the heavy machinery fell across the wharf at the spot where people had been standing, waiting for the incoming ferry. No great amount of damage was caused and little difficulty was experienced in replacing the machinery on the transport punt for shipment across the harbour. Fourteen Guineas a Bale Bidding for wool by the bale instead of by the pound, with the buyers advancing by half guineas, made a bright interlude in the Christehurch wool sale last week. Near the end of H. Matson and Company's catalogue a bale was offered,-, the proceeds from the, sale to be devoted to the Karitane Hospital extension appeal fund. The bidding started at half a guinea and rose quickly to two guineas, when the representative of Walter Hill and Son stopped any further argument by calling; "Five guineas." The bale was just being knocked down to him for that when, to make doubly certain, he increased his bid t.o. 10 guineas. After the conclusion of the catalogue other buyers came forward and gave guineas to the auctioneer, the total reaching 14 guineas.