LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19843, 18 May 1927, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A net profit of £1319 was shown by the Christchurch Tramway Board for the year ended March 31 last. The number of .passengers carried showed a large increase, as did also the number of car miles run.

The body of Alfred Noakes was recovered at the Dobson Mine yesterday, says a Greymouth telegram. It was expected to recover the body of Marshall, the remaining* victim, in the afternoon.

Some level crossings in New Zealand cost as much as £16,000 to eliminate, and the average cost of elimination is £5,000. There are 3,000 public level crossings in New Zealand, of which 300 are on main highways.

An Otaki telegram reports that Hori the five-year-old son of A. D. Webster, the well-known horse owner, accidentally shot himself in the stomach on Monday afternoon. He died in the evening. He was playng with a rifle when it exploded.

At the Police Court at Dunedin yeiterday, William John Hardie, who is on probation, was sentenced to three months’ and one month’s imprisonment on charges of stealing £6 and a motor -helmet and goggles, the sentences to be cumulative.

The Minister of Pensions (the Hon. G. J. Anderson) yesterday told a South African war veterans’ deputation that the giving of war pensions as a matter of right was not sound in principle. He promised to place before Cabinet their requests for an increase.

A fatal accident occurred at Hamilton yesterday when Ronald Tetzlaff, aged 17, was struck by a piece of asbestos that was being handled on a roof, and was knocked off/ falling 25 feet to the ground. He sustained* a fractured skull and died in a few hours without regaining consciousness.

A Press Association telegram from Ashburton states that Messrs Turnbull and Rule, architects, of Timaru, gained first award in the competitive designs for the Ashburton war memorial. Mr H. L. Massey (Auckland) was seconidj. Twenty-eight designs were submitted from all parts of the Dominion, all of the cenotaph type.

“I am loth to lay down the principle that a married man with four children, who is in. receipt of the award rate of wages for skilled labour, cannot pay living expenses,” said Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., at the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court yesterday during the hearing of a judgment summons case.

There have of late been very many complaints about alterations in the wave lengths of some of the New Zealand broadcasting stations. The Radio Broadcasting Company of New Zealand, Ltd., was yesterday informed by the Post arud> Telegraph Department that it had been decided to revert to 400 metres temporarily, until the whole matter of wave lengths has been reconsidered.

A Jugo-Slav, named Katrani, who travelled from Naples to Auckland without paying his fare, and who got a month’s imprisonment on March 28 for stowing away on the Niagara, was charged at Auckland yesterday with vagrancy and with being unlawfully on the Marama on Friday last. He was sentenced to three months’ gaol on the first charge, and one month on the second, the sentences to bo cumulative.

The settlement of Kakahi was visited by a cyclonic wind on Sunday night. A house owned and occupied by Mr. J. Sumner was damaged to the extent ofi £2OO, the iron on one side of the roof being stripped off completely, as was also the iron from the back of the house. A motor garage was lifted bodily, portions being distributed over a hundred yards away. A motor-car standing in the garage was practically undamaged.

At the inquest on Henry Temple, who was found dead in the Tablet office last Monday, reports an Auckland telegram, the Coroner said that there was no evidence of suicide, death being due to asphyxia, following coal-gas poisoning. It seemed that while under the influence of drink deceased went to light a gas stove and knocked it over, and was apparently in such a state that he was unable to right it again.

Judgment for the plaintiff by default, with costs against the defendant, was given at the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court yesterday in each of the following civil cases:—H. G. Miers v. W. B. Roberts, £3O Is 3d; S. . Crutchley v. Fred Halkett, £l6 17s 6d; Levin and Co. v. C. Kirkpatrick, £1 Ils 4d; A. Body v. A. H. Holden, £8 2s 7d; Simplex Machinery Co. Ltd. v. L. H. Prebbl e and Co., 19s 6d; Preston and Williams v. Arthur Penman, £lO 3s; Wanganui Traders’ Association v. C. Brider, £2 2s 6d; same v. T. '.Tackson, £1 7s 6d; same v. T. Sexton, £2 14s Od; same v. George Sherman, £2 2s 6d; Wanganui City Council v. Edward H. Brider, £8 ss.

The Hon. J. A. Young (Minister of Health) -informed a deputation at Auckland yestendjay that the provision of school idjental clinics had reached the limit for the time being. New clinics could only be established gradually. He had very seriously to consider whether he could not curtail some of the work that had to be idjone for children over the age of nine once their mouths had been put in order. Only 30 trairiees could be handled. The accommodation was cramped and it was no good asking the Government for much money this year to provide building accommodation ofr trainng more nurses. Claims for dental service by private schools could not be entertained.

The contractor of the extensive additions to the Waitomo Caves Hostel is making good progress with the work and preparations are being made for the foundations, says an exchange. The concrete to be used in the building will be of limestone and this is at present being ground. The building and fittings will be among the most up-to-date of the kind in the Dominion. The whole of the ground floor will be heated by hot air, the machinery for which will be situated in a pit already sunk in solid limestone. All the bedrooms will be so situated as to ensure a sunny aspect. When completed the building will accommodate sixty-five visitors. There are at present thirty men employed on the work. The contractor expects to finish tho whole building in June, 1928.