SYDNEY SCENE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 27, 1 February 1940, Page 5

SYDNEY SCENE.

SOLDIER'S SUICIDE. FREE FIGHT AT STADIUM. "FATHBRCRAFT" CLASSES. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, January 26. Investigating a locked shower room in a block of flats at Coogee yesterday, the caretaker found a 2nd A.I.F. private, Harry Broad, 24, dead with a service' rifle beside him. The body was naked except for a pair of socks, and the bullet had entered the head through the mouth. Broad had money at Coogee and Bondi, and the caretaker said he had known him for years and be did not seem to have a care in the world. Broad belonged to Victoria. Private Donald Kirk Campbell, 28, is critically ill i n hospital with a bayonet wound. He is a Queenslander. Nothing has been announced -of the circumstances under which he was wounded. Widow's Cry in Court, "Don't take my children," cried a widow in Paddington Court when sentenced to two months for having stolen a watch which she gave to her daughter as a Christmas gift. She had been previously bound over for shoplifting. The magistrate said he would see that someone took care of her children, but it was a question whether a woman of her character was entitled to have children. Mealing is more rife now than ever before," he declared. "Shoplifting is being brought to a fine art, and ft is virtually unsafe to leave anvthing about anywhere. The only way to stop it is to punish severely those who come beforej the Courts on such charges." A 15-year-old boy has been charged at Newcastle with having fired at a taxi-driver with a pistol and pea-rifle|

with intent to murder. According to the taxi-man, the boy hired him to driv* from Waratah to East Maitland and fired the shots after he had alighted and the taxi was driving away. It is stated that 40 boys escaped last month from the Gosford Boys' Home, which is conducted on the honour system, and some of the staff officers are. said to be losing faith in it. Others. however, say that the wrong type of boys are being admitted—older youths who have been guilty of serious Crimea and should not be in the same home as younger boys of a more amenable type.

Brawl at Stadium. "I hope he dies," called out a spectator at the Stadium after Billy Fundess had collapsed in the 12th round of his fight with Dave Lefton and had been carried out. Immediately a dozen men leapt at the spectator and soon dozens of others were engaged in the worst melee at the Stadium for several years. Extra police were called and soon stopped tha brawl. Fundess had won almost every round until he collapsed. Teachers and Education Department officials, who this week saw a marionette show designed as a teaching aid, are satd to have been impressed with the educational ponsibilities of puppet show, ° f ****• Se °^^ The school inspectors' conference was told by the chairman of the State Youth Employment Committee that* the average boy fresh from school had a poor addr«« when seeking employment. Among the sins charged against the bovs were that they keep their hats on at interviews, use slang to their employers, will not practise economy, wait for duties to be given them, show little enthusiasm for their work and no keenness for advan«-e----ment However, the boys' side of the case has not been heard. Class for Fathers. More than 50 fathers attended Sydney's first fathercraft class in * theatrette this week and were lectured by Public Health Department nurses on "The Practice and Theory of Fatherjeraft." Then they were taught how to jattend to napkins. One of the pupil" said later: "The nurses showed us two | ways of doing it, but I know a third — pin it on both sides and it won't come [off so easily." -• »