CALLS TO FIRES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22465, 28 July 1938, Page 6

CALLS TO FIRES

FIFTEEN ANSWERED BY BRIGADE MEETING OF BOARD AT TIMARU Fifteen calls were answered by the Timaru Fire Brigade from March 31 till yesterday, according to a report presented to the quarterly meeting of the Timaru Fire Board by the superintendent (Mr E, W. McCann). Mr William C. Raymond presided. Giving details of the calls, the report said that there was one electric motor lire, one stove fire, one hedge lire, three motor-cars, six chimneys, and three calls for special service—one to pump -water from a shingle pit in the Levels County , one to pump water from a transformer station in Stafford street, and one to stop escaping- ammonia in a refrigerator plant. It was decided to convert the mens kitchen into a sitting room. ACCIDENT AT OTAIO VERDICT RETURNED AT INQUEST The adjourned inquest into the death of Walter Kevin Shea, in the Timaru Public Hospital on June 15, was concluded before Mr H. Morgan, S.M. A verdict was returned that the boy died from heart -failure, shock, and concussion, resulting from an accident and exposure, when a car'in which he was a passenger and which was driven by Robert Nilson Monson. got out of conlrol through the front tyre bursting and the car. skidding on the frosty surface, crashed through the Otaio bridge to the riverbed below. SUCCESSFUL CONCERT AT MORVEN SCHOOL COMMITTEE TO BENEFIT A concert and dance in aid of the funds of the Morven School a»d Waihao Basketball Club was held in the Morven Hall recently. The first section of the programme was given by flic pupils of the school. The items were as follows; —Songs by the school choir, recitations by Maggie Benson, Gladys Clearwater, Clare Sutherland. Echo Tewhao, and Colin Mills, piano solos by Audrey Cross. Several, sketches and a maypole dance were also presented. The second part of the programme was giver, by members of the basketball team and visiting artists. It included lap dances by Miss Betty Kaan and Miss Gladys Lange, a Russian dance by Miss Roberts, a recitation by Miss Mavis Heath, and songs by Messrs H. Apes, Maiharoa, Wesley, and Whitau. Mr E. S. Marshall, chairman of the school committee, thanked the performers and others who had helped to make the evening a success. CIVIL CASES TIMARU MAGISTRATE’S COURT Judgment was given for plaintiff by default, with costs, at a sitting of the Magistrate's Court, Timaru, yesterday, before Mr H. Morgan, S.M., in each of the following cases;—Slrawboard (N.Z.), Ltd. v. Alex. McKinnon, £lB 10s; Mason and Sinclair Thomson v. P. R. Edwards. £5; Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association, Ltd. v. W. E. Payne, £6 Os Id; Timaru Borough Council v. John Carney, £ls 7s Id: Frederick M. Ward v. Porcival R. Edwards, £1 15s; B. Fielding v. Lilian Thomas. 14s 6d. WAIMATE MAGISTRATE’S COURT George Johns, a commercial traveller. who appeared before Messrs P. Grant and S. J. McMaster, Justices of the Peace, in the Waimate Magistrate’s Court yesterday afternoon, on a charge of theft, was convicted and fined £l. MOTOR DRIVERS’ LICENCES Up till yesterday morning 396 motordrivers’ licences had been issued for the 1938-39 year by the Waimate Borough Council. The number issued at the same time last year was 370. FARMER FALLS OFF DRAY W. Cain, of Seadown. suffered slight injuries to a leg in an accident on the Seadown road yesterday. He was standing on a spring dray, and putting on his coat,, when the horse moved forward, the sudden lurch of the dray sending him off his balance. He fell over the back on to the ground, anc’ hurt hi.-i' leg badly. A neighbour, Mr S. Cargo, drove Cain to Temuka, where medical treatment was obtained, but it is believed that no bones were broken. SHIPPING PORT OF TIMARU . EXPECTED ARRIVALS Holmlea, Dunedin, this day." Holmdale, Oamaru, July 29. Waiana. Dunedin, July 29. Essex. Wanganui, July 29. Breeze, Dunedin. July 29. Karetu, Lyttelton, July 30. Waimana, Port Chalmers, July 31. Tainui. Port Chalmers. July 31. ICaimai, Bluff, August 2. Gale, Dunedin, August 2. Waipiata, Oamaru, August 2. Walnui, Oamaru, August 3. Waikouaili, Dunedin. August 5. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Holmlea, Lyttelton, this day. Holmdale. Lyttelton. July 29. Waiana, Lyttelton, July 29. Breeze, Lyttelton, July 29. Tainui. Wellington, August 1. Waimana, Wellington, August 1. Essex, Wellington, August 1. Gale, Lyttelton. August 2. Waipiata. Lyttelton, August 2. Kaimai, Lyttelton, August 2. Walnui, Lyttelton. August 3. Waikouaiti. Lyttelton, August 5. On June 14 in Berlin was laid the foundation-stone of the House of German Tourist Traffic. Here is a vast semi-circular building in modern style, to harmonise with the planned rebuilding of Berlin, will be housed all the chief travel and tourist organisations of the German capital. The building is intended also to serve as a meeting place for travellers from all over the world.