CITY AND SUBURBAN ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 75, 21 December 1928, Page 14

CITY AND SUBURBAN ITEMS

NEWS AND NOTES OF INTEREST

The contract work in connection with the improvement of Glasgow street, Kelburu, will conclude within the next few days. As some big fillings have been necessary where the road has been widened out to the line of the new retaining wall, it is not at all likely that this road will be paved this season. The City Engineer considers that the reconstructed road should be weathered for a winter before it is permanently paved.

While working on the Majestic Theatre building yesterday afternoon, John Glengarry, who resides at 66 Roseneath Terrace, was injured through being struck by an iron girder. The Free Ambulance was summoned, and the injured man, who had sustained a severe fracture of the right ankle, was removed to the hospital.

The schools section of Toe IT. Wellington, will hold the annual camp at Oyster Bay, off Tory Channel. Picton, from December 26 to January 10. Boys from orphanages will be the guests of boys from Welliugton, Wellesley, Scots, and Rdngotai Colleges. Besides tents the committee have been able to obtain the use of a woolshed. Drs. F. Kemp and F. Bowerbank will accompany the party, and the camp commandant will be Mr. A. B. Mayion. The committee are much indebted to the Rotary Club and friends who have sent donations, and also the Toe H League of Women Helpers for Christmas puddings. The camp will be run on similar lines to the Duke of York’s camp at New Romney, England.

The Coroner (Mr. E. Page, S.M.) presided over an Inquest held yesterday to inquire, into the death of Mrs. W. Page, who was struck by a train at Lower Hutt early in the evening of December 10. After evidence had been taken the Coroner said that it seemed clear that death was accidental. Mrs. Page had been returning home, but had been misdirected. She had been wandering along the railway line in an effort to take a short cut to her proper road, and had evidently sat down on the rails. There was nothing to suggest that she committed suicide; the evidence was all the other way. Senior-Sergeant Scott conducted the inquest.