NEWS In BRIEF

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 190, 14 August 1939, Page 3

NEWS In BRIEF

Body Under Wharf. —A body, believed to be that of Mr. Walter George Duncan, who disappeared from the New Occidental Hotel on July '20, was found to-day under the wharf from which the Eastbourne ferry service is worked. — Press Association, Wellington.

Collapsed at Social. —At a social in the Matakana Hall on Saturday evening, Alfred Swinbourne, aged about oU, dropped dead while playing cards. Deceased, who was married, with a grownup family, had been working for Mr. H. C 4. Melville, a farmer, of Matakana, for the past IS months, and formerly lived in Matainata.

Dropped from Bomber.—Two parts of the cit.o'tne cowling fell from one of the two Blackburn Baffin bombers that passed over New Plymouth 011 Saturday en route from Auckland to Christchurch. They were sheets of aluminium about 411 by 2ft. One fell in the sand at Moturoa and the other at Fitzroy.— Press Association.

Largest in World. —The annual meeting ot supplier* of the biggest co-opera-tive dairy company in the world, the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, will be held this week in Hamilton. It will open with the committeemen's conference to-morrow afternoon. The annual smoke concert to-morrow night will be followed by the annual meeting on Wednesday.—Own Correspondent.

Tribute (to New Zealand Nurses.— "After having visited the hospitals at Home, I don't think the nurses in Xew Zealand have anything to learn from the nurses in England,"' said Dr. R. S. A. (Jrahain, acting-superintendent of the Waikato Hospital, when speaking at a presentation ceremony at the hospital. Dr. Graham said the Waikato Hospital was a very line training school, as was evidenced by the repeated successes of its nurses at the State examinations and by the number of times Waikato nurses had topped the list for Xew Zealand. The training given to nurses in Xew Zealand was as food as that given in overseas hospitals, and those Xew Zealand nurses who went overseas were highly thought of and had 110 difficulty in securing good positions.

New Trial?-—An application to reserve j certain (juest ions .of evidence for the ' Court of Apportl awl for leave for tinprisoner to apply to the Court of Appeal for a new trial, on the grounds that the verdict was against the weight of evidence, was made when .Tames (leorjje Williamson appeared before Mr. Justice Keed in the Xc-w Plymouth Supreme Court for sentence. Williamson .\va» convicted last week of unlawful ut-e of ail instrument with intent to procure mi~"aiTiag". Ihe hea.ing of counsel's i argument was deferred. i

Brilliant Aurora.—An unusually brilliant . Aurora Australia was witnessed i:i tiie southern sky in Wellington on Satuiday night. Although the entire display lasted nearly three hours, the most spectacular part of it was brief. The Aurora was first observed by Carter Observatory astronomers about 6.20 p.m. when it was in the form of a greenish glow suffusing the southern hoi izon. Ihe light then began to brighten until at about 7.40 p.m. when it readied its maximum lurid red raws .-hooting up into tlie sky like the relli'i tion from a burning city. Within five minutes ol the outburst of brilliance the liuii; fa.Yd. though a faint glow l.ngciid oil the horizon till about 9.1.") p.m. ()bsi i\a toi olli -ials watchiim for a rep. t'tion ,:f the display la.-t night, ob-erx ed only a faint green glow on the horizon.—l're.-s Association.