BUSINESS ITEMS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1240, 22 January 1914, Page 25

BUSINESS ITEMS.

MESSRS. GLEESON AND MITCHELL.

Messrs. Gleeson and Mitchell, hotel brokers, whose advertisement appears in our columns, have evidently “ hitched their waggon to a star,” judging from the large volume of business passing through their hands. Messrs. Gleeson and Mitchell, both smart business men, are a progressive firm, ever on the look-out to give to their numerous clients that unbounded satisfaction which is the hall-mark of satisfactory service. Hotelkeepers and owners of hotel properties would do well to communicate with Messrs. Gleeson and Mitchell who are pastmasters in the art of disposing and effecting transfers for hotel property, and in these days of keen competition it is well for intending purchasers to transact their business with a firm of good reputation, and above all, with a firm that commands such a wide and well-known business connection throughout the Dominion. The fact that Messrs. Gleeson and Mitchell control more freehold hotels than any other agency firm in New Zealand places them foremost in the position of being able to give to their clients a large and varied selection of hotel properties to choose from. We heartily wish this enterprising firm every success, which must inevitably follow when business integrity and honest endeavour to give their numerous clients every satisfaction is the foundation and platform of their business ideals.

Two interesting engagements recently announced are those of Miss Inglis to Mr. B. L. S. Dallard (of the Audit Department, Wellington) and Miss Marion Inglis to Mr. W. Taylor (of the Public Trust Office, Wellington), both daughters of the Rev. R. Inglis, of Knox Church, Auckland.

An irate motorist has been writing to the Wellington papers upon the better regulation of street traffic, and draws attention to a great nuisance in many colonial towns. Pedestrians wander aimlessly about the roads and streets, when there is ample room on the footpaths, as well as cross the roads in the most careless fashion, without a cursory glance in the direction of the traffic to avoid it, constituting a menace and a danger both to themselves and motorists. The writer states that in London, where the traffic is the best controlled in the world, such people would have a much smaller chance of safety than in Wellington, where motorists are such “reckless terrors.” Surely something can, and ought to be, done in this direction towards traffic regulation.

The Cook County Council, Poverty Bay, has invested in a 10-ton motor road roller, which, it is claimed, is the first motor road roller to be imported into New Zealand. The new machine has many advantages over the old types of rollers; one of the most important, especially to a local body, is the saving in the runningcost. The roller is driven by an oil engine instead of steam, and this obviates the necesity for having to keep a stock of coal and a large supply of water, which would be an inconvenience when the roller is operating upon up-country roads. There is an auxiliary kerosene burner, so that after being started with petrol kerosene can be used as fuel, thus reducing the cost of running without reducing the capacity for work. The roller is fitted with differential gear, but pins are supplied, so that a fixed gear can be used when necessary. The roller has two speeds forward and one back. It is of sufficient power to climb any grade on the district roads.