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North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 21 March 1927, Page 4

Heavy slorms in Cook Sirnit seri- 1 ously interf'ered with the cnble service last night and much delnv was causecl with the press messages. t Heavy rain on Saturday at Auck- \ and caused the postponement of all ' athletic sports. Rain also fell heavily &l Paeroa and the second day's racing of the Ohinemuri Jockey Cluh was postponed. | On ihe application oi Ivlr ,T. H. Slain, letters of administration with Will annexed in the estatc cf ihe late Mrs E. J. Bezett-Wilkinson, were granted at Dunedin cn tiie 18th inst. by his Honour, Sir Wm. Sim. On Saturday night an Oakland car procceding down Eden street came into collision with a street lamp at the intersection with j Thames street. The street iight was | extinguished, but ihe car was apparently little damaged. The motorist "folded his tent like the Arab, and as silently stole away." The Taranaki Board oi Education had before it at its last meeting an application for Ihe exemption from school attendance of a girl aged 14. The grounds of the application were that the girl had outgrown her strength, and as she had to help her brother to milk a herd of 90 cows she could not attend school and also milk. It was decided to reply that the board had no power to grant- exemption. The Fire Brigade was called out at 2.10 this morning. Constable Voyce saw a blaze in Yare street and gavh the alarm. A shed fllled with furniture, tools and sundries, belonging to Mr M. Doherty was the seat of the fire which burned fierce- * ly and lit up the locality for a .con- ! siderable distance. The Brigade | found the water pressure deficient, but in any case the flames had such ! a hold that nothiDg could be done : except to protect the buildings in j the neighhourhood. I ; | "In addltion to the cyclists irain- ! ing hehind buses, we have now a ! new peril," said the secretary'of the j Wellington Automobile Association, I "They have started roller-skaiing on ; -he bltumen on the Hutt road. What ; has the motorist of kn'owing ; wi:'eh way the roller-skater is going ; way he will turn, or where ; r c will pull up?" A member: "He i rnigb.t skate under you." It was de1 cided to protest against such a use : of the biiumen. i ' i A few weeks back the New York | papers announced that plans had i been filed with the municipal buildj ing department of that city for an ; office . huilding 110 stories high, the ! topmost point of which would be | 1208 feet above the street. America's j highest huilding is at present th^ l Woolworth Building in New York^ j which has 58 stories and soars to j 792 feet. Detroit, however, is to j eclipse this, for the Boon Tower i buildings under construction there is to reach 837 feet. Wellington's buildings are restricted to 100 feet in height for the main parapet, 'though towers and turrets may extend above this. The height of the projected new' skyscraper in New York may be gauged by- the fact that Mount Victoria is 648 feet high above sea level.

Mr A. G. Bush, City Engineer. in an address to the New Zealand Con- '. ference of Civil Engineers, said i there had been a greater percentage of growth in Auckland in recent years than either in Sydney or Melbourne. This is represented by a growth' of 24.2 for each quinquennial period. In the same time the population of New Z-ealand increased only 12.1 per cent. Maintaining this rate, Auckland in 40 years' would be as large as Sydney is toi d;ay. No part of the town planning scheme was more important than the provision of new arterics in the cities. Mr Bush urged the planning of such roads immediatelj1-, as well perty. - V "It is nonsense ror fhe prime Minister to state that it would cost millions of fiounds to eliminate the 300 odd railway crossings throughout New Zealand," wrote an intend- . ing member of the Wellington AutoAssociation on Monday night. "This is only dragging a red herring across the trail. The motorists don't want Mr Coates to eliminate all the railway crossings — all they want the Government to do is to i provide reasonabkrprotection at the | more dangerous crossings." _ The i writer suggests a red flag with a glass reflector for use at night, which would drop or wave when 'a train was approaching and revert to a vertical or perhaps lowered' position when the train had passed, and urged that the '"X" signs be put 200 yards from the line, to give the motorist a chance of taking precautions. At present numerous dangerous crossings still had only 1ft 6in signs almost on the line itself. The Association made the reply that the Government was gradually improving dangerous crossings, and the Highway s Board had agreed to subsidise the needed improvements if local bodies would eo"50-50" witb them

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