NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 90, 10 January 1935, Page 11

NEWS IN BRIEF

Unpaid Rates Penalty

A City Council advertisement notifies the public that a 10 per cent, penalty will be added to all rates unpaid on the expiration of six months and fourteen days from the date of the issue of the demand. That date lapses on February 19, so that the penalty will be imposed on all rates not paid by February 18.

Marama to Withdraw, For reasons of economy, the Union Company's inter-Coloulal passenger steamer Marama is to be withdrawn and laid up toward the end of February. The company’s passenger service will be maintained thereafter by the Monowai, running in conjunction with the Vancouver and San Francisco Iloyal Mail vessels. Aeroplane at Auction.

With a reserve of £375 an Avro Avian, G—AATV, which had been brought to New Zealand by Flying Officer G. T. Jarman, was auctioned at Rongotai Airport yesterday afternoon, but failed to reach the reserve. Powered with a 100 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley Genet Major five-cylinder air-cooled radial engine, the machine has a top speed of 85 m.p.li. It is fitted with a metal airscrew dual control, aerobatic harness, and full normal equipment.

Archbishop's Domicile. The fact that His Grace, Archbishop O’Shea has succeeded to the high office of Archbishop of 'Wellington and Metropolitan of New Zealand, does not, for the present at all events, Involve any change of domicile. For some years now Archbishop O’Shea has resided in Patterson Street, opposite the Wellington East Girls’ College, and he will continue to do so. The residence of the late Archbishop Redwood will continue to be the home of the Marist Fathers administering the affairs of the Thorndon parish.

Mosquito Nuisance. Probably owing to the prolonged spell of hot dry weather the mosquito trouble has manifested itself in the city unusually early this year. Mosquitoes usually do not make their appearance until about the end of January and during February and March, but they have been making themselves a nuisance in many parts of Wellington during the last fortnight. People should remember not to leave any pots, pans, old tins, barrels, or like containers likely to hold water, as such places are the breeding grounds of these insects.

Careless Handlers of Petrol. Though many warnings have been issued about the danger of placing petrol too near flame of any kind, the number of accidents through this means continues to multiply. An officer of the Fire Brigade stated yesterday that the brigade had received three calls since the last warning on account of petrol fires. A typical case was the woman who, when using petrol to clean clothes, placed the container on a lighted stove. The fumes soon caught fire, and when the husband rushed in and attempted to convey the blazing mass to the kitchen sink, he burnt his hands. Of course, if people placed petrol near a fire in this way they could only expect trouble. Pioneering Days Recalled.

The pioneering days were recalled on Tusday, when several of the fast-dis-appearing band of early colonists were present at Archbishop Redwood’s funeral ceremonies. Among them was Mr. G. Ward, of Blenheim, now 76 years of age, a nephew of the late Archbishop. His father and mother (the late Archbishop Redwood’s eldest sister) taught the future great churchman his ABC and gave him his primary education at Waimea West before he went.to Father Garin’s boarding school in Nelson in 1851. An aged chieftainess from Otaki, and the leader of the wailing of the Maori party at the church and grave, remembered the day, now 60 years ago, when as a pupil of St. Mary’s Convent, Guildford Terrace, she had taken part in the scholars’ welcome to the new Bishop of Wellington, Dr. Redwood.