Flats Without Permit.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 June 1938, Page 6

Flats Without Permit.

Property-owners who convert houses into flats without permits are to be prosecuted by the Christchurch City Council. The chairman of the council’s housing committee stated at the last meeting of the council that the committee was determined to bring these people to heel. He referred to one house which he said had been divided into about 11 flats, with a community bathroom and conveniences. The council could not stand for that kind of thing, he said, and the sooner the public knew it the better.

Prices in the East. “Whoever says that living is cheap l in the East is most decidedly wrong,” was the comment made by Mr E. G. Bright, a New Zealand fruit-grower, who returned to Auckland by the Maetsuycker after making the round trip with the vessel. Mr Bright said that unless bazaar goods were bought prices in such places as Singapore and Saigon were about 30 per cent higher than they were in Auckland, if articles of similar quality were purchased. When shoes were priced at 20 guilders, he said, they seemed to be cheap until it was discovered that the guilder was ■ now worth about 2s 9d.

Apples Instead of Milk. The Headmasters’ Association has advised the Otago Education Board that, because of a shortage of milk, disSi’ibution to schools will be discontinued until September. It asked the board to support a proposal to obtain from the Health Department the distribution of one apple daily for each child during this period. This was approved. Demonstrator Fined. To make it known that there were only two permissible ways of connecting electric washing machines to the power supply, the registrar of electrical wiremen brought a prosecution in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday. A salesman, John Davis, who admitted the charge of installing a machine in a manner contrary to the electrical wiring regulations, was convicted and fined 10s and costs. For the department, Mr C. H. Rogers said the only correct methods of connecting the machines were by fixed wiring and to a three-pin socket by means of a flexible cord. Defendant conducted a demonstration in the washhouse of a Lower Hutt residence. As there was no three-pin socket he used the ordinary lamp socket, with an adapting appliance the effect of which was that the apparatus was no longer earthed.