OVERNIGHT ITEMS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 936, 5 December 1933, Page 11

OVERNIGHT ITEMS.

j The Christchurch Beautifying Association decided at its meeting last I evening to offer to take oven the car-, jof the grass plots in the Cathedral ; grounds for six months if the Chapter was prepared to pay for water used. | The chairman, Mr R. B. Owen, stated that the grounds required more attention than thev had been receiving, jMr Owen also said that the Chapter •apparently did not have the plant to [keep the grounds in order. He nan i noticed a boy trimming up the grass I round the plots with the use of a pax' meeting of the Christchurch C ity Council last evening The report of the Abattoirs Committee stated that Mr Hansen, the successful tenderer, had been interviewed in reference to the suggestion that he should obtain the whole of the members of his party locally. Mr Hansen said he did not 1 think it would be possible to obtain i sufficiently able beef butchers locally, jin the circumstances the committee | had decided not to enforce the proviso suggested by the council regarding the I whole of the members of the party be'mg local j; i No Objection to the inclusion of the j Huntsburv district in the city will be 'raised by the Citv Council, provided it iis definitely understood that any capij tal expenditure required for the imj provement of the area will have to be borne by the area and will not be met Iby the city as a whole. This decision was made by the City Council last evening on the recommendation of the Finance Committee, which reported that residents and ratepayers of the Huntsburv district had discussed the matter with members of the committee. That the City Council was making too much use of relief workers on what ■ could be considered ordinary maintenance work was the contention of < oun--1 cillor F. T. Evans at the meeting of ■ the council last right. He said that as long as local bodies sheltered relief workers in that way, so long would the Government fail to endeavour to put men back into industry. In one instance the speaker had seen a relief > worker doing maintenance work while a permanent hand, at 16s a day. was chipping grass. These remarks were made by Councillor Evans when speaking to a motion by Councillor A. E. Armstrong that the council pay the same rate of wages to relief workers .as to permanent employees, in view ■ of the amount of essential and productive work being done by local bodies under the No. o relief scheme I’ouni cillor Armstrongs motion was defeated. “ Yes. we have had a lot of turnover that name.” declared Mr 11. L. Wigley. when Mr C. J. Taibot. a member of the Main Highways Board, took exception to the name Tasman Chalet, which has been bestowed on the Ball Hut. Mr Talbot was speaking at the tourist traffic conference at The Hermitage. Mount Cook, during the week-end. “ I would like to protest against the use of the name Tasman Chalet. Usage has always referred to the Ball Hut, and for goodness sake let us call it that. We are not like the Swiss or the Germans, who believe that a hut is something to crawl into. L hope Mr Wigley' will change the name back to Bail Hutt.” Mr A. P. Harper, a noted mountaineer, recalled that the Ball Hut had been so named in 1882 by the Rev W. S. Green, in memory of Sir John Ball, the famous scientist.