CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 219, 12 June 1930, Page 13

CITY AND SUBURBAN

.HAPPENINGS IN AND ABOUT TOWN=

Messrs. E. C. Wiffen and W. G. Talbot, and Dr. Anson, were appointed at last evening’s meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society to a special committee which will make suggestions as to how shooting may be improved in the Wellington district,

At an extraordinary meeting of the Wellington Bowling Club held last evening it was decided to recommend the directors to purchase a small section of 'land, which lies between the western side of the lower green and Ohlro Road.

Mr. G. Harnett, the manager of the Anglo-Welsh Rugby team which toured the Dominion in 1908, and whose death is announced this morning, possessed the saving grace of humour. He was greatly impressed with his visit to Rotorua. “If the devil had popped out of one of those Rotorua holes,” he said, “I should not have been the least bit surprised, as they seemed an Ideal spot for him to take up his abode.”

Thomas Lawrence, a waterside worker, was admitted to the hospital last evening suffering from a scalp wound and slight concussion received through being struck on the head by a wooden beam when working on the King’s Wharf. He was first attended to by the Free Ambulance.

Once again the management committee of the Wellington Football Association has changed its abode, and weekly meetings will in future be held at the Basin Reserve pavilion, as was done last evening. Until about three years ago the committee met at the Y.M.C.A., when it went over to an office in Grey Street, from which it has gone to the Basin Reserve pavilion.

The strong southerly wind which set In yesterday had a touch of the Antarctic in its breath. Among the heavy showers which fell during the morning and in the evening was not a little hail. Overcoats, furs, mufflers, and wraps of all kinds were very much in evidence throughout the day, and the home fires were kept merrily burning. The spectators at the Rugby trial match at Athletic Park had a cheerless time. “I wish the Rugby Union had included a beating system when it erected this tine stand,” remarked a woman, as she played a tattoo with her shoes on the concrete floor.

When Soccer footbaUjplayers are suspended for misconduct, it is, according to rule, reported to the Dominion body for confirmation, although suspension comes into operation at once. It sometimes happens that players are reprimanded if the offence is not regarded as serious enough for suspension, but the management committee of the Wellington Football Association was not aware that it was necessary to report other than suspensions. The rules of the New Zealand Football Association require associations to report all cases of misconduct, but last evening members still had doubts on the subject, so it was decided to ask the council for a ruling.

The opossum-trapping season for the Wellington Acclimatisation district will commence at noon on July 21 and terminate on September 2.

All the bends in Crawford Road, KiL bimie, from the fire station at the top of Constable Street to the Kilblrnie Post Office, have been marked out by the traffic department ■ with white, guiding lines for motor traffic.

“Why do eating-house proprietors believe that a man cannot feed himself unless he has a gramophone adding its din to the clashing of teapots and the other noises inherent in the operation of tea-rooms?” asked a man yesterday. "Usually the record is one you have heard hundreds of times before, and if it happens to be new, the same strains are coming from the doors of every gramophone dealer in the city. There are very many men who like peace and quietness with their meals.”

The record number of eggs for a pheasant to lay in a season was requested by Mr. W. H. Christensen, Feilding, in a letter read at a meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society last evening. He said that he had a hen shut up with a cock bird complete the season by laying 125 eggs. A book published by the United States Government stated that the record for one season was 104 eggs. No member of the society was able to give any information on the subject.

When the Management Committee of the Wellington Football Association last evening received a letter from a junior club complaining that the referee had again failed to turn up last Saturday, an experience it had had* four or’ five times this season, the chairman (Mr. W. B. Hicks) said the young players attached more importance to the attendance, of the official referee than was generally believed. He hoped referees would do their best to attend and encourage the boys. It was explained that the referees appointed for two matches in the Hutt Valley both attended for the same game owing to * misunderstanding.

Recently the Wellington Acclimatisation Society made a grant of £lOO for the purpose of planting trees at Kapiti Island as a source of food supply for birds. The caretaker reported to last evening’s meeting of the society that good progress had been made with the work, some 2600 plants, representing 25 different species collected on the island, as well as 1300 taupata trees, being planted during May. He said that he had procured 4000 taupata and 100 ngaio, and the former would be planted along the shores to re-establish the fringe. In many places there was hart! ly any soil, so he had to carry dirt to give the taupatas a start. When once the plants started seeding, he said, birds would be after the berries, and would not only spread the seed of taupata, but would carry seeds of other plants out of the bush. The other species of plants were planted among taihunu, etc., where they would receive plenty of shelter.