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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 255, 22 July 1921, Page 4

"In the early ’fifties there used to be horse-racing in Cuba Street,” said an elderly witness in the Assessment Court yesterday. "They used" fo race up Cuba Street jump the stream that now flows underneath the street, go sipwn Ingestre Street and Tory Street to Courtonay Place, and back to Cuba Street.’ Tbs evidence w-as being heard in connection with a controversy on land values in the Cuba Street of to-day. A serious motor accident was narrowly averted at Taita yesterday jafteinoon, when a motor-car crashed into a ditch through the breaking of the steering gear. After leaving the road, ihe car—which contained a member of (lie Springboks football team, on his way from Masterton—almost joapsized, Smit did not overturn owing io its hurtling into a thick clump of gorse. It was later hauled out of the ditch, and the party continued their journey to Wellington. The Housing Committee of the City Council reported last night that a ballot for the disposal of four five-roomed cottages erected under the municipal housing scheme would bo arranged within the next fortnight. Tho Tourist Department has donated the following exhibits to tho Municipal Zoo:—One wallaby, four ring-necked pheasants, and a number of golden carp. A request for conversion of the quarry reserve at Oriental Bay into a play area was considered by the City Council last night, but was nod acceded to. The conversion, tho Mayor explained, would interfere with certain development plans. (Moreover, the (council might shortly require to go to the quarry for metal.