LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20058, 22 September 1920, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

t The Church of England Institute for Soldiers at Rotorua is to be closed at Uio end of this mouth, states a Press Association telegram. Flights were made from the Canterbury Aviation Company’s aerodrome at Sockburn on Monday and yesterday by the following:— Mr and "Mrs H. Stephens. Mr G. M. White, Mr H. C. Jones, Miss Q. Rogers, Miss ]£, Sycamore, Mrs D. M. White, Mr p. R. Cadman, Mrs E. Cadmau. A request that the Christchurch Drainage Board should cover in a drain, running along Lowo Street, was made by Mr A. IX Ford, Mayor of Riccarton, and Mr H. It 'Wise, who waited on the board last night as a deputation from the Iticcarton Borough Council. Mr Ford stated that the Government had treated the council very handsomely. They had given a substantial piece of land, which would enable Lowe Street to bo practically straightened. TV board had been asked prior to the Government’s offer being received to bear half the cost of covering in the drain, hut the straight(niug of the street which was now possiolo would entail considerable expenditure by the council, and it was tlieretore desired that the board should bear the whole cost of the work in connection with the drain. The board decided to oiler to pay two-thirds ot the cost. "Pen-duplicating in perfection calls for faultless copies produced with the minimum of pressure on tho pen, leaving an unsoilccl original and a permanent, readable copy. These results are guaranteed lo users of ZANETTC paper, obtainable from Stationers. If any difficulty write to the makers ZANETTC, 159, Albert Street Auckland. j An inspection of the Malcolm Avenue teak was reported on by Mr T. E. Joinun&on to last night’s meeting ? “J® Christchurch Drainage Board air Joinunson said he went to the tank with Mr G. H. Hall, of the Heathceto County Council. Mr Hall suggcstecl taking the broken metal and the distributors out of the tank, and then Idling it with earth. This, said Mr Tomlinson, should prove satisfactory adopted CDnCerUOd ' The report waa Exorbitant charges by a. plumber \orc aJJeged in a letter received some time ago by the Christchurch Drainage Board. The matter was referred by the board to its .solicitors, who advised that the board could not interfere m tho matter of charges made by a licensed plumber to a customer. It was pointed out that tho board might bo constantly employed settling diffeiences between plumbers and those who employed them if it took upon itself to regulate these charges. At a meeting of tho Lyttelton Marine Land on Monday night, the question of forming_ a junior band was discussed, but decision was deferred. Tho bal-ance-sheet showed that tho bank overdraft bad been reduced to £66. The assets were' valued at £I2OO. Expenses m connection with the Dunedin band contest amounted to £IBO. Mesdnmes Wearnc and T. Gorsfc were thanked for valuable assistance in the raising of Auncla towards tho contest expenses That transformers were installed at tne Christchurch Drainage Board’s Linwood Pumping Station with tho full concurrence of the board was stated in a report by Mr B, Hitchcock, general manager ol the City Council’s electrical department, forwarded by the Town Clerk in response to a request by tho board for an explanation regarding the matter. The subject arose out of an accident met with by Mr A. S. Forrester, one of the board’s engineers. The board decided to hold tho matter over for a month. The Christchurch Drainage Board met last night, Mr H. J. Otlcy presiding. The financial statement showed: -Dweipts, £20,531 19s; expenditure, ■fi-n’. ’X 1 c *' Accounts amounting to £/91G 9a od were passed for payment. An offer by Mr IV. Dench to purchase a strip of the board’s land on Appleyard’s Rond and Cuthbert’s Road backing on to his property, was .declined, 1 ho pumping station report stilted that the plant was running quite satisfactorily. The quantity of sewage pumped during August was 818,220 tons, compared with 716,655 tons during August last year Hundreds of Christchurch citizens have been cured by Dr Fellows Pilo Cones when every other known remedy has failed. Price 3s 6d box, from chem.sts, or direct. Loasby and Co., chemists (opp. Ballarityne’s). X There is a distinctive quality in our wedding groups and portraits that makes them worthy as,a record of tho happiest time of your life. Steffani Webb, Petersen’s Build'ngs, 252. Hiati Street. ’Phone 1989. f Secure a True Temper “Geneva” Cultivator for your garden. Equip, meiit consists of hoc. plough and tire adjustable Invincible' cultivator teeth. Attachments are permanently fixed to the frame. Price 40s, at Hastie. Bull and Pickering’s, 113, Cashel Street. 3