NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 146, 16 March 1939, Page 11

NEWS IN BRIEF

Motor-Cycle Control

'Pile Wellington City Council lasi night authorized its engineer to submit Io the New Zealand Road Safety Conn cil suggestions for the better control of motor-cycles.

Seals at Basin Reserve. An amount of £lB5 is to be placed on the Wellington City Council’s estimates to provide additional seating accommodation in front of the pavilion at the Basin Reserve. Second Nature.

“It is second nature: like tucking a baby into bed," replied a witness in the Magistrates' Court, Petone, yesterday, when asked why he had shone his car lights on bis outboard motor-boat before retiring to tied at 11 o’clock one night.

Bequests to Orphanages. Under the will of the late Mary Flood Earlaud. who died iu Wellington on February 7 last, the sum of £3OO is bequeathed to the Anglican Boys’ Hume. Lower Hutt, and £3OO also to the Presbyterian Girls’ Orphanage at Island Bay. The Public Trustee is executor timl trustee.

Opossums in Khandallah. Depredations of opossums itt the suburbs of Wellington were referred to by Mr. A. Seed. Khandallah, at last night’s meeting of the Acclimatization Society. He said that he bad a tree bearing a reasonable crop of apples. Almost every one had been half-eaten by opossums.

Hataitai Park Shelter. “The shelter provided at Hataitai Park is an absolute disgrace to the city council,” said Mr. B. Sutherland, speaking last night at the farewell gathering to Mr. A. L. Fitch, coach to the Wellington Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. The season had been cold and ou some days it had been almost impossible for the athletes to strip off, he said. Extensions to Trani Sheds.

Extensions to the Newtown tramway sheds will provide accommodation for 24 new ears in course of construction. At its meeting last night, the Wellington City Council approved a recommendation of the tramways, electricity and street lighting committee that tenders be called for the work of extending the sheds. Homage to the Pope.

Cabled advice was received yesterday toy the Rt. Rev. Monsignor T. Connolly, Administrator of the Arch diocese of Wellington, from his Grace Archbishop O’Shea. Metropolitan of New Zealand, who is in Rome, stating that he had presented homage to the Pope on behalf of the Roman Catholic congregation in New Zealand, and that his Holiness had imparted to himself and the whole Province his Apostolic Benediction. Books for Library.

An offer by the Central District, New Education Fellowship, to deposit in the Central Public Library a collection of books and pamphlets on progressive education was accepted with thanks by the Wellington City Council last night. An offer by the New Zealand section of the Friends of the Soviet Union to supply free of charge to the Public Library copies of the weekly newspaper “Moscow Nows.” was accepted, subject to the contents of the publication being reviewed in six months. Athletics in Schools.

A suggestion that a coach should be obtained to visit secondary schools in the daytime was made by Mr. B. Sutherland, speaking last night at a farewell gathering to Mr. A. L. Fitch, coach to the Wellington Centre of Hie New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. He was prepared, he said, to guarantee the expenses of such a coach for a three years’ engagement. The coach could visit six schools a day for three-quarters of an hour each. Effect of Import Control. The Government's import restrictions make themselves felt iu the most unexpected quarters —even in the State’s own services. This was borne out at a meeting of the Otago Education Board this week, when the. Education Department stated, in reply to an inquiry from the board in reference to film strip projectors for visual education, that the plan which it hoped to have in operation early this year could not in the meantime be proceeded with because of the import restriction regulations. Patient’s 'Drain Trip.

Forceful ingenuity was displayed by Auckland ambulance and railway officials ©n Tuesday night in transferring a medical patient travelling to Wellington from the platform to a compartment in a sleeping car on the Limited Express. If was impossible to carry the stretcher into the carriage through the normal entrance and tools were hastily plied to remove the window of the compartment. With the task completed the stretcher was passed through and the window was again placed in position and secured a few minutes before the train departed.