NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 97, 18 January 1935, Page 11

NEWS IN BRIEF

Conscience Money Persons unknown have forwarded the following amounts of conscience money to the New Zealand Government: —2/8 and £2/5/- to the .Treasury; 8/- to the Minos Department; two amounts of 10/- each to the Railways Department; lOd and 1/- to the Post and Telegranh Department; and 10/- and 5/- to the Customs Department. Receipt of the money by Mr. A. D. Parke, secretary to the Treasury, is acknowledged in the “New Zealand Gazette.” Ah Alpine Pass. The Ilawea-Haast Pass road, thirtythree miles long, from its junction with the Tiniaru-Queenstown highway via Tekapo and the Llndis Pass to the vicinity of the Makaroa homestead on the eastern shore of Lake Wanaka has been gazetted its a main highway. N.Z. Rugby Team. Members of the New Zealand Rugby team, which is to tour Great Britain this year, will leave for England on July 31. and proceed to London, where they will enjoy two days’ holiday before proceeding to their training quarters at Newton Abbott on September 4.

Late Mr. C. T. P. Ulm. At a meeting of I Squadron. Legion of Frontiersmen, held on Tuesday night, deep regret was expressed at the misfortune which befell Frontiersman C. T. P. Ulm during his trans-Pacific flight, and it was the wish of the meeting that the deepest sympathy of the legion be conveyed to his friends and relatives in their great personal loss, with its attendant general loss to aviation. Two minutes’ silence was observed by the meeting, the members present standing at attention.

Motor Registration Plates. Regulations were gazetted yesterday aiiiei'Jing others relating to motor registration plates. It Is ’provided by the Order-in-Council that registration plates affixed to private motor-ears being the property of or regularly used by his Excellency the GovernorGeneral, may be distinguished by the symbol of a crown alone. Another regulation provides for private-hire or rental cars a series of numerals from 1 to 300 inclusive, without initial letter, and also a series of numerals from 90900 to 99999 inclusive, preceded by the letter X. No Call at Wellington.

When the Byrd Expedition returns from the Antarctic, it is improbable that either of the ships will call again at 'Wellington. The auxiliary barquentine. Bear of Oakland, which is now approaching the Bay of Whales to take aboard part of the expedition aud their gear, will not put in to any New Zealand port on her homeward voyage. The steamer Jacob Ruppert, now on her \;ay south for the aeroplanes and such explorers and equipment as will ■ not have been embarked in the Bear, will return to Dunedin, probably dn early March. She will then sail for .New York. Encroachment of Hawkers. Members of the Wellington Ratepayers’ Association raised objections to the encroachments of hawkers upon the main-streets of the city at the executive’s. meeting on 'Wednesday evening. It was decided to write to the City Council pointing out that the system of allowing barrowmen to vend goods in city streets had been rightly abandoned, but either through oversight or neglect of duty on somebody’s part these hawkers were again abroad, not only interfering with traffic but with the business of shopkeepers who paid for the privilege of fronting city streets.