LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 65, 10 December 1919, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Owing to the increased tram traffic in Customhouse Quay, and particularly oppesite to the Post Office, it has 'been found necessary to prohibit vehicles from using the roadway between the tram shelter and tho Post Office. All vehicular traffic inns': to the eastern side of the centre shelter. Yesterday the driver of a vehicle wn; fined JCI, and costs 75., by 31r. Tv. Page, S.M., at Iho Magistrate's Court for not obey'ng the direction which was delivered personally to Iho defendant by the traffic iuspeuier.

When the wood blocks were first laid along Lambton Quay some thirteen yea's ago there was some doubt as to which of the Australian hardwoods were li«'«t adapted for wood-paving in this climate. Fiir the purpose of a test, sections ol jarrah, tallow wood, black butt, etc., were laid along the western side of Lambton Quay from Stewart Dawson's corner northward. These wood blocks are now about to be replaced by concrete, and it will be interesting to note whether there is any marked deterioration on the surface or at the base of the various sections of blocks, which have stood the heavy mid-city traffic for so long a period. As illustrating tho devastating oiled of (he prickly pear pest in Queensland, 51r. TJobert Sander, who has just relumed from a visit to that State, sax! that two voung men took up a block of between iiOOO and 1000 acres of good land, wh'.eh promised to yield them in time a good '•(•turn. Ono day tho district was visital bv a hcavv thunderstorm of such magnitudu that the adjacent river overflowed and flooded the block. The lined waters jniKt have can* ed along millions of prieklv pear seeds, for -two years later fiie block was a tangled forest or priekly pear. and the holding had fo bo abandoned.

Speaking at jiosencath last; night, Dr. \. IC. Newman, Jieform candidate for \Vellinglon East, advanwl the opinion that in a few years' time there would he no tuberculosis in the Dominion. He believed that it,would ba possible to achieve this very desirable result by making the Public Health Department more efficient. The Department should iiii-tilule an active campaign against cancer.' If ho bad his way llio wouid prosecute a vigorous erusatb against this disease.

"What has become of your political questions? Have they taken any notice of t'lieni? No, because Ihey can see that you arc fighting amongst yourselves."—A. speaker at last evening's nu'c.ting of the. Wellington l!cl:uni«i Soldiers' Association.

A story bearing on tlin climatic conditions (if,"windy "Wellington" ivas told i,y Dr. A. K. Newman in llio course of his election address .at, Pioseneatb last night. "When 1. was in England some, time ago," Dr. Newman. -\l visited a tilioalro with a. friend. My friend remarked to me: 'In this theatre tlio air is changed eight times an hour.' "nh, that: is nothing,' I answered. 'In tlijHowii T live in we change the air forty times an iliour.'" (Laughter.)

II: is notified in instructions issued by Getieral Headquarters I hat. tlm artificial limb factory, Wa.kefield Street, will lie closed from December ?4, Iftlf*. until llio morning of .Tanmtrv 10:"i.

The keen interest taken in the public meeting against Kaiwi amalgamating with the city resulted in the Karon Borough Council adjourning its meeting, which was fixed for last evening, until Monday next, in order to permit councillors'to attend the meeting, which proved very lively.

"We will linve to do a great deal more in I he way of cheapening feed, especially in Iho winter lime,'' remarked T)r. A. K. Newman in the course of his address at Uose.neath Inst night. T'or some time people in Wellington had been eating frown liraf. and although they did not know it, they "eot along very happily." Owing to the scarcity of frc-ii meat, caused liv the recent strike, the citizens of Auckland had found frojfii meat" to be finite mod. In the Vnitrd States, milk, C7'rs, and otV'r ren'shnVo forwWuffs were fro'/en in oivW that tbr-y mi'.rht be stored nn for use >n water. Other countries iveiv doing ill o same, with flio idea nf making t'nod cbean end plentiful in the winter tim°. T)r. Newman 'aid that the same thing con'd bo (hoie ii> >"ew '/"al'Mid. 'mil it wo'"'d Mp materially in lowering the cost of living.

At [hi' incnthlv ni"ptitv.: of the iif Director® of the Wellington ..M.C.A.. held 011 Monday ni.'ht, Mr. S. .'p> was e'eetrd to the e.Pk'O "f pr.'-id■■lit of Hi" a-sociii tion for the n-cnip ;.e»r. Mr. EaUooer has been r'r--"lv r w'tli the Wollingt'.'n V.M.t'J. for the iwsl fifteiyi years, and dien.;' 'hat per fid iuis rendered invaluable cti i<v i:: rn as a director and tr-asurer I" ihe a<-soc;,i-linn. Thv fo':ii'v,i'i:,' '''J to I'll the other -l-'irsl vice-president. Mr. \V. Kjtlin; iVrmd viVc-pr.'sdoiit, Mr. \. P. Sm'th; lion, secrrlary, Mr. 11. C. South.

At a meeting of the Brooklyn branch of the. New Zealand Labour Party, lieh.l last evening, the lollowing resolution was passed unanimously"The Brooklyn branch of tho New Zealand LaUiur Parly enters an emphatic- protest again*! the action of tho* Government' in applying liiic power,s conferred under 111,' War Herniations to exclude from circulation in New Zealand copies of the Queensland Government's onk'iiil r.'view of (heir various Slate enterprises, the object being to prevent the electors from knowing th" truth regarding the success of thoso enterprises,"

Tho band of (ho Wellington Pa.friof.io Society will play at Newtown Park to-night-at 8 o'clock.

A meeting of the Canterbury Employers Association considered a resolution adopted at tho annual meeting of. tho iVgw Zealand! I'cderation, to iilio effect that step be taken i«o bring about a new order of relationship between individual employers and their workers, and that each centre should elect representatives to constitute a cominitteo to elaborate a scheiuo having as its object tho promotion of industrial peace, the resolution was endorsed, and eight representatives wcrfi selected to inept representatives of other centres in Wellington.—Press Assn.

Much enthusiasm was displayed at a meeting held in Hamilton last-week, says au. exchange, regarding a proposal to construct a light railway to link up Hamilton and Kawhia. Mr. j. lVr (president of tho Hamilton Chamber of Commerce) presided, nJid among thooa present were Captains Causey and Bruce, who made special itivpsiigaiimw into tho light railways of France. Mr. Bruce said it was estimated that 310 miles of l;ght lines could l>e constructed for tho same, cost as 100 standard, gauge, or .£I4OO per mile, as against J4-'JI)(I. The suggestion is that money should be borrowed under the Railways Act with the hope of obtaining a Government subsidv. A tour, of the country over which tlie proposed railway will pass began on Saturday.

At the Baptist Tabernacle in Auckland tlie Rev. 11. S. Gray, preaching on flio ■subject of the combined Christian Church making greater uso of her opportunities, mado ret'erenco to tho ([iieslion of the.recent baptism case in Auckland by saying that lately they had the spectaelo of a great historical Church wasting its time in discussing the Questran of whether little or much water should be used in baptism, forgetting that the one great aim of tho Church eliculd not be hair-splitting in oonnectiou with doctrines, hut doing tho great practical work which wais tlie Church's mission to do, and which, in these modern days, was only half-heartedly done, and led to tho undermining of the Church's influence.—"Star."

An unusual incident occurred at an in-riue.-t in Christchurch recently. An elderly man came forward to give crLdenco of identification. "You know the deceased?" the examining officer suggested. "I went to' school with him." "And when did you Inst see him alive?" About 2.1 year:- ago. I haven't 6eon him lately." But the witness identified the body. Tho lancing of an abscess in a lion'a law attracted a large crowd to the Oneliunga Zoo on Saturday afternoon (says the "N.Z. Herald"). After the animal had been driven into a small rectangular space in its cagoa rops was thrown over its head. Tho lion roared and struggled in a vain attempt to escape. . When the animal was firmly secured, a, veterinary surgeon lanced the swollen jaw, the original intention of extracting a tooth having 1)2011 abandonod. Tho operation was soon over, and the lion being set. free, paced its cage emitting low growls.