DOMAIN SITE APPROVED

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 119, 10 August 1927, Page 9

DOMAIN SITE APPROVED

SHELTERS FOR T.B. MEN OFFER OF A SUBSIDY THE Parks Committee of the Auckland City Council decided yesterday to recommend that the suggested site in the Domain should be allocated for the men in the T.B. shelters. The proposal will, of course, go before the City Council for confirmation, but it is not anticipated that there will be any difficulty in this connection. Mr. E. Phelan, the chairman of the committee, who waited on the Prime Minister. Mr. Coates, in Wellington last week, and obtained an offer of a subsidy of £ for £ up to £250, said today that this offer had not yet been accepted by the conference of interested local bodies. The committee set by the conference has yet to consider the Government’s decision. Both the Red Cross and Patriotic Societies, said Mr. Phelan, were prepared to do their share financially. “So, in the meantime, things are ‘as they were,’ ” was how he summed up the situation.

AN AUCKLAND EXPERIMENT A simple little invention has disturbed the unofficial smoko-oh which some lorry drivers usually have about 10 o’clock in the morning. It can be fixed to a lorry, or anymoving vehicle, and records, unknown to the driver, every time the vehicle stops, and for how long. Trouble may await the driver who makes unofficial halts in his employer’s time. The little tell-tale instrument records everything. Several of these instruments have made their appearance in Auckland, and have been used to good effect. One firm secretly fixed three of the instruments to three of its lorries. For three days the instruments recorded the fact that the lorries stopped regularly for a considerable period every morning. Inquiries were made, and it was found that the drivers met for "a morning cup of tea.” They did not know that the little instruments were recording those morning halts. The instrument is a very small affair, containing a clock and a metal face, over which is placed a circular card. This card has a sensitive surface, so that the shaking movement of the vehicle to which it is attached marks round the edge of the card very distinctly. The card is fixed firmly, and is carried round by the block, and therefore records the time the vehicle is away, the time it is kept moving, and the length of time it stops. The instrument can be fixed to a vehicle of any kind, and cannot be interfered with, as it is locked by the person who fits it to the vehicle.