NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 100, 22 January 1935, Page 11

NEWS IN BRIEF

Capsized Lorry Struck by a motor-car, a two-ton lorry belonging to the Hutt ValleyWellington Freight Service and piled high with bales of flock, was overturned in Wakefield Street shortly before 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon. The lorry had just turned into Wakefield Street from Tory Street going westward, when the car hit it, a rear wheel of the car locking with the bumper of the lorry and overturning It, New Civic Building. Rapid progress is being made with the alteration of Macky, Logan and Caldwell’s warehouse in lower Cuba Street to suit the purposes of the Wellington Electric Lighting and Tramways Department. On the ground floor front all the old windows are being removed, as well as a good deal of the brickwork, to clear the way for ornate modern windows. It is hoped that the building will be ready for occupation in April. Vernal Decorations. Shrubs growing in tubs in the recesses of the outer walls of the Wellington Town Hall, which were a refreshing feature of the decorations on the occasion of the visit of the Duke of Gloucester, are still in position. There is a suggestion that some, if not all, of them should be retained as a permanent feature, the shrubs being removed from time to time as thought fit for skilled attention. The green of the shrubs against the cream-toned background of the Town Hall has a pleasing effect. Penguins at Plimmerton. It is seldom penguins are found so far north as Cook Strait, yet within the past few days holiday-makers at Plimmerton discovered at Kareliana Point three dead penguins and a dead albatross. In addition, a live adult penguin, also a baby penguin, were caught by a boy near the boat-house at Kareliana. The baby, which seemed exhausted, was given two days’ rest in a tub of salt water. When released it lost no time in waddling down, to the water, and once in its native element it made for the open sea.