In Town and Out

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20100, 20 March 1928, Page 6

In Town and Out

For riding a motor cycle without a light ou Somme Parade D. E. Holmes was lined £3 and costs at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning.

Now that the plane trees in Victoria Avenue are growing their winter coat of greenery, those that have died during the recent dry weather are particularly noticeable. In the opinion of a Council official their death is due not to the dry weather, but to the destructive action of gas escaping in minor quantities from a leaking main, and being imprisoned under the tar-scaling of the road. X ..

Ruapehu is regarded by the younger generation of Wanganui citizens as an extinct volcano, but it is not many years since it ceased erupting. The recent disturbances of Ngauruhoe have recalled to the memories of several of Wanganui’s older residents the eruptions of 40 years ago, when both Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu were active, throwing clouds of steam and smoke high in the air.

Charged with riding a motor cycle at night Yvithout a light, Walter Jackson appeared before Mr J. S. Barton, S.AI. at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning. The police, it was stated, had had considerable trouble in locating accused, who had given the wrong name and address. The Magistrate said that as Jackson had caused so much trouble to the police and a great deal of inconvenience to an innocent man, the fine would be increased from £1 .10s to £4 10s.

Hundreds of people use the Great North Road every day, travelling on business or pleasure. Year by year improvements are made in the surface, as is considered necessary on a main highway in these days of motor traffic. Thirty-nine years ago this main road at Westmere was a veritable boghole and a local in a “Chronicle’’ in December .1889 states that there was great danger of someone being killed if the road was not repaired. It goes on to say the mail coach had been upset and another conveyance nearly capsized owing to the roughness of the surface.