A Last Look Round

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 47, 18 May 1927, Page 9

A Last Look Round

Dead in Bedroom.— Walter Frederick Jack, a native of Napier, 59. single, and employed as a farm hand, was found dead on the floor of his bedroom in a boarding house in Hastings yesterday morning.

Motor-Car B timed.—Engine trouble during a run from Te Awamutu to Hamilton on Monday caused a fiveseater Oldsmobile driven by Mr. R. AY. Gibson to burst into flames. Mr. Gibson got clear, but the car was destroyed. There was insurance, but not to its* full value.

Good Maintenance Work. —“There is more maintenance work in No. 2 Main Highways District than in any other of the main highways districts in the North Island,*' stated an Auckland delegate to Te Awamutu motorists on Monday evening. The local bodies are subsidised 50-50, and the money is being spent to advantage.

Penalty For Students* Failures.— When a Training College student t iking university classes fails to oltain terms, the Education Department w ill not pay the fee for the s-ime subject at the same stage twice. Neither will fees be paid when failure has led to the selection of different subjects in the following year.

Remodelling Hospital Block.— The Auckland Hospital Board chairman. Air. W. Wallace, indicated last night that the remodelling of the kitchen block at the hospital would soon have to be considered. He thought it one of the “blots” on the hospital. A properly-equipped diet kitchen would have to be provided, he said, under the direction of a qualified dietitian.

Government Action Wanted. —That the Government be urged to take over the East Coast Road from the boundary of Takapuna and subsidise it to the maximum of £3 for .Cl was the text of a resolution carried by the YVaitemata Chamber of Commerce Inst night. The residents along the road and all users of the road are to be organised and the matter brought before Parliament.

Smoke and Consternation.— A fire which did little damage beyond destroying a waste-paper basket and a cushion brought the fire brigade into Wyndham Street about 9 o’clock this morning. The flare took place in the office of Mr. Gordon Bartleet, of Roberts and Co., land and estate agents. Two brigadesmen, with an extinguisher, soon put it out.

Hospital School in Hamilton.—The appointment of a teacher at the Y* aikato Hospital was suggest at today’s meeting of the Auckland Education Board by Air. S- 'B. Suns, lie said there were 25 children there. The chairman, Mr. A. Burns, said: * vVe will have to get permission from the department. It is a step in the rLht direction. We are getting good Jesuits at the Auckland Hospital.”

Bottled Wator. —“The residents of Los Angeles have to buy their drinking water in bottles, though they have one of the finest, in point of view of quantity, water systems in the world.” was the remark of Mr. Kennings, at the Waitemata Chamber of Commerce last night, in stressing the value of chemical analysis of water supplie*-. The trouble with the American suppl noticed is that it is so alkaline that is not potable.

Change Desired!—For the first time in its history the Auckland Hospital Board will meet in the afternoon. It was decided last evening on the suggestion of Mr. John Rowe that no more night meetings should be held. The decision was unanimous. The chairman and secretary are now ascertaining an afternoon monthly likely to suit a majority of members.

Gramophone Music for Churches.— With the object of developing and encouraging congregational singing among New Zealand Roman Catholics, Archbishop Redwood, of Wellington, has directed that children be taught to sing the music for all church services, including the Mass. Gramophones with the records of the hymns as contained in the Catholic school hymn-books are now’ in use in various schools throughout New’ Zealand.