In Town And Out

Southland Times, Issue 23377, 8 December 1937, Page 6

In Town And Out

New Motor-vehicles

The motor trade continues to thrive in Invercargill. In November 147 new motor-vehicles were registered at the Chief Post Office, Invercargill, only nine fewer than the record total for June this year. The number of new vehicles registered in October was 136.

Matriculation Examinations The New Zealand University entrance examinations better known as matriculation began on Monday and will continue till December 15. Invercargill candidates are sitting in Victoria Hall. The subjects yesterday were English and plane trigonometry. Today arithmetic will be the subject for the morning and French for the afternoon. Subjects are included for the school certificate and for medical, dental and engineering preliminary examinations.

Taxi Drivers Prepared Certain taxi drivers in Invercargill believe in being prepared. A hot day and a trip to the beach will not find them sitting weakly behind the wheels of their cars while their fares enjoy a bathe. They, too, enjoy a swim, for now that summer is generous with its sunshine, a bathing costume has become part of the permanent equipment of the cars. There were not a great many persons travelling to Oreti Beach by taxi, a driver said yesterday, but there were enough to justify the precaution of always carrying a swimming suit and towel in the car.

Bitumen Sprayer In Kelvin Street Kelvin street was barricaded off in sections yesterday by rows of bitumen drums with ropes slung between them to enable the City Corporation staff to spray bitumen and spread gravel on the road. Steam engines, lorries loaded with gravel, and bitumen sprayers surrounded by a bluish haze made the street uninviting to motorists and pedestrians alike, and although the road was never completely blocked except at intersections much of the usual traffic in that part of the town was diverted into other streets. The work was completed yesterday afternoon. Borstal Escapee Recaptured

Brief liberty was enjoyed by John James McCarthy, aged 18, an inmate of the Invercargill Borstal Institution, who escaped from the buildings about 11 o’clock yesterday morning. He was arrested on Bay road at 5.15 in the afternoon by members of a search party of warders and police.