ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 266, 6 August 1929, Page 10

ITEMS IN BRIEF

FROM FAR AND NEAR Boy Shot in Leg.—Jack Tisdale, aged 15, residing at Middlemarch, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital yesterday with a bullet wound In his leg (states a Press Association message). He wm shooting rabbits with another boy when one of their rifles went off accidentally. No Sign of Kobenhavn. — K radio message received in Sydney from the search ship Junee states that no sign has been seen of the overdue sailing ship Kobenhavn.—rPrqgs Assn. Loan for Unemployed Relief.— The Auckland City Council, with one dissentient, has decided to apply to the Government Loans Board for £25,200 to provide work for the unemployed (states a Press Association message). Domestic Tragedy in New South Wales. —A woman was battered with a hammer at Grafton, New South Wales. Her husband is dead with his throat cut. It is alleged that he committed suicide. The dead man is George Denny, aged sixty. His wife, Jane, is in hospital in a critical condition. —Press Assn. New Air Pilots Qualify.— Miss Aroha Clifford and Mr. R. W. Norman, members of the Canterbury Aero Club, qualified as pilots at tests yesterday. Miss Clifford is the first lady member of the aero club to qualify in New Zealand. — Press Assn. Armed Bandits in Melbourne.—A Press Association message from Melbourne states that the reign of terror by armed bandits continues. Hold-ups over the week-end totalled seven. In each case unescorted women were the victims, and in two cases at Moonee Ponds shots were fired to intimidate the victims. The proceeds in the majority of cases were small. “One war traffic only,*' with an arrow pointing to the right, fronts motorists at Fairview Terrace, Kelburn, as they travel the Raroa Road route to Karori, and if the direction Is followed motorists will find themselves perpetually “looping the loop,” returning via Plunket Street to the point where the misleading sign appears.