TRAMWAY SERVICE INTERRUPTED

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 131, 5 June 1919, Page 8

TRAMWAY SERVICE INTERRUPTED

Tho publio had another reminder to-day that no surplus power; is generated at tho Tramways Power Station. Between 8 and 9 o'clock this morning tho steam pressure went down to below normal owing to a slight niishap to one of the boilers." As a result,: the trams had. to. proceed slowly, but a complete' stoppage , wa. averted. Many people were a little late in arriving at their offices, but;beyond, that the inconvenience was slight.

The executive of the Navy League in London recently passed a motion calling public, attention to the necessity of preserving in Imperial and Allied interests, both in peace and war, absolute control over Irish ports, harbours, and communications, and in maintaining inviolate the freedom of the seas in the British sense of the term. At its meeting yesterday, the Wellington Executive of the League endorsed the resolution. A copy of the resolution of endorsement has been sent to the London Executive.

Jurors summoned to attend at the Supreme Court to-morrow morning are notified that they will not be required, and are finally discharged. There are still- quite a number of civil cases to be heard by judges- alone at the current sessions of the court.

"The farmer is not conservative," said ' Dr. F. W. Hilgendorf, Director of Liv- •<$ coin College, Canterbury, while speak- '* ing at the Agricultural Conference yes- ' terday afternoon. "He certainly won't :. try a new plan if you tell hint'to, but :'.-$ that is because ho has been told so many -M& lies by agricultural experts that he will , , never believe another. Show him a good ■ result and ho will rush for it hot-footed. We grow a good crop at the college, and the farmer sees it. He rushes away a hundred miles and puts in the same crop in the same manner in land a hundred miles away where the conditions are not at all the same, with the result that his crop is a failure. (Laughter.) Both attitudes are equally bad, the unbelief and the over-enthusiasm. Both will be * done away with by one thing, and by one only—an intelligent understanding of the basal sciences of his art." '

Eight men who were found in 'an Auckland hotel on a day in which all hotels were directed to close on account ,of the arrival of the hospital ship Maheno were each fined £1 and costs. A charge against the 'licensee of keeping his hotel open was dismissed, but. the barman was fined £1 and costs.