NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1931, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

Telegraphic Bush. The Secretary, General Post Office (Mr. G. M'Namara), stated that at 2.30 p.m. yejstcrday traffic for Napier and Hastings was being handled by direct circuits; and, in addition, full use .was being made of aeroplanes for the carriage of telegrams. There had been an unprecedented Tush of telegraph business, and every available man was being used in an effort to cops with the position. White Mudguards. A bylaw is to be framed making it compulsory for the owners of bicycles ridden in Wellington to have half the rear mudguards painted white. New Milk Station. Arrangements have been made for the official opening of the new municipal milk station in Tory street, to take place at 3 p.m. on 12th February. The Mayor (Mr. G. A. Troup) will preside, and His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, Lord Bledi^loe, will formally open the station,by opening the front doors with a presentation gold key. Speeches will also be made by Councillor W. H. Bennett, chairman of the Milk Committee, and Mr. C. J. B. Norwood, an ex-Mayor of the city,, who was chairman of the Milk Committee when the municipal milk scheme was inaugurated. Ban on Car Parking. , Car parking is to be prohibited on the beach and on the grass sward opposite Williams Park, Day's Bay, according to a decision reached by the City Council last evening. , Suburban Libraries. ■„ The Libraries Committee of the City Council recommended last evening that consideration be given in connection with next year's estimates to the following proposals:—The conversion of the Miramar Public Hall building into a branch library for the district; the conversion of the Wadestown Public Hall building into a branch library for the district; the erection of a y new. branch library and public hall at Brooklyn; the erection of a public hall and branch library at Vennell street to serve the Vogeltown and Mornington districts. The recommendations were adopted. It was also decided to accept the offer of the proprietors of the Empire Hotel to donate the two bronze statues now standing in 'Victoria street and to re-erect them at tho entrance to the Newtown Library. Everything but Water. There is plenty of everything in Napier to-day but water, telegraphs "The Post's" special reporter. People are urged to wash" in the sea. It is quite a business. Either one wades out without shoes, and socks and uses the gritty water, from the breakers, or ono scoops a hole in the sand and lets the water settle a bit. Every now and then a wave bigger than the rest comes along, and after that the shoes do not matter. Sand is an excellent cleanser for the fingers, but rather rough on the face. Soap Will not lather. Still, the shortage of fresh water is such that an edict has been issued that it is not to be used for ablutions. ■ '■■ t