NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 25, 29 July 1939, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

Hutt Hospital

A letter was received from the Wellington Hospital Board at yesterday's meeting of the Hutt County Council stating that the board was going ahead with the plan for a hospital at Lower Hutt and had applied to the Loans Board for approval of a loan of £435,000. "We had this matter before us at the last meeting and voiced our objections by letter," said the chairman (Mr. S. Blackley). It was decided that the council should write to the board confirming its previous objections. "They don't seem very worried in Lower Hutt about hospitals," said Councillor W. M. Pearce. No Merry-go-rounds. "I told the" man I would do all I could to prevent a merry-go-round being put up right against people's back doors," said Councillor F. W. Vickerman at yesterday's meeting of the Hutt County Council, when an application from Mr. A. E. Hyde to run a merry-go-round and small railway on the Paraparaumu Beach was being discussed. Objections to the proposal were received from four people, who asked the council to prohibit it. It was decided, on the motion of Councillor Vickerman, not to allow the project. Difficult for Fanners. "I think the farmers should get credit for keeping up the milk supply these days," said Councillor J. J. Maher (Mangaroa), when referring to the effect of the recent heavy snowfalls, at yesterday's meeting of the Hutt County Council, "For the last three days cows have not been able to get a bite to eat except what was fed to them," he said. The extraordinary thing was that while the hills around Mangaroa had only been peppered with snow, it had been nine inches deep on the flat. It was very serious for the stock. Herr Hitler in the Square. Saluting the Cathedral and the waiting tram passengers, an effigy in snow of Herr Hitler stood near the Godley statue in the Square on Wednesday night, and a very good one it was, states the Christchurch "Press." The finishing touches were applied with carth —a big flop of hair down the forehead and a neat moustache. On the breast a swastika had been impressed and filled in with soil, and the right arm was suitably raised in the air. The effigy took about thirty minutes to make, and its completion, when the use of soil for hair, eyes, and moustache made it suddenly recognisable, was signalled by a shout of laughter from onlookers. Boys With Gelignite. The parents of several Rotorua small boys were unpleasantly surprised when their children arrived home carrying several sticks of gelignite apiece, states a Rotorua correspondent. When questioned, the boys said they had found the' gelignite on the outskirts of the town. The explosive had been contained in a tin, and each of the boys had taken some of it to show to his friends. Fortunately, they had taken the gelignite straight home without experimenting with it themselves, and consequently were relieved of their dangerous burdens promptly before any damage had been done. To Be Prosecuted. In view of a statement by the building and sanitary inspector (Mr. D. G. Joll) to the effect that there was unlicensed plumbing and drainage work being done and buildings were being erected without permits, it was decided at yesterday's meeting of the Hutt County Council to prosecute all offenders. "There is still a certain amount of unlicensed plumbing and drainage work being done in the county and I think a few prosecutions for this class of work would apprise the owners of the seriousness of allowing unskilled workers to carry out such work," he said. Several persons had been found erecting buildings Without permits and he suggested that a notice should be put in the papers to the effect that in future such offenders would be prosecuted. One councillor said that the reason why some people did not apply for permits was because they knew theii buildings were not up to standard. No Hockey Sticks tor Schoolboys. Hockey sticks for schoolboys are now unobtainable, and the Canterbury Hockey Association is becoming very greatly concerned, especially since there were eleven more school teams playing this year than'there were last year, states the "Press." On Wednesday evening it Was reported to the management committee that the practice of giving sticks as trophies to members of teams winning competitions would have to stop, because sticks could not be obtained. A suggestion that medals be substituted was not favoured, the opinion being that whereas sticks helped boys to become interested in the/game, medals might interest them in pot-hunting. Hockey sticks cannot be made locally, and normally supplies come from India. The only trophies therefore will be the existing challenge cups, and no attempt will be made to substitute for the sticks. Hcme News From Home. That a resident of Dunedin should not know of Dunedin's isolation through the snowstorm until she heard an announcement made by the Empire short-wave station at Daventry seems incredible, says "The Post's" Dunedin correspondent, but the story is true. The woman concerned lives on the slopes overlooking the Kaikorai valley. On Tuesday morning, when lOin snow blanketed her homestead and all the hills as far as she could see, she thought it was just another hill storm. She stayed indoors all day and not until that evening did she turn on her radio "set, selecting Daventry station for her programme The "hot" item of news in that trans- j mission was to the effect that Dunedin was isolated from the rest of the Dominion by the severest snowstorm in j the history of New Zealand. It was j then that the woman learned that the storm was not just a "hill" one.