ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 145, 16 March 1931, Page 11

ITEMS IN BRIEF

About People and Events SUMMER-TIME PASSES Daylight saving ended yesterday, timepieces being put back half an hour. Those who forgot to make the necessary adjustment were subjected to the usual temporary inconveniences, although these were greatly minimised through the change-over being made on a Sunday, resulting in small interference with buslnCMost people put their clocks hack half an hour on Saturday night when summer time ended, some forgot all about it. and a very few, over-anxious to do, the right thing, moved the hands half an hour forward. One woman who. erred in this way could not understand why the milkman was so late! St. Patrick’s Day. St. Patrick’s Day falls to-morrow and banks and law offices will be closed In. the evening a concert will be held in the Town Hall. Bowling Secretary’s Death. Advice was received privately in Wei-, lington last evening that the death had occurred at Christchurch of Mr. E. W. Wade, secretary of the Christchurch Bowling Centre. Boy’s Fractured Wrist. A fractured wrist was suffered by ,a young boy, Peter Graham, of 18 Washington Avenue, on Saturday afternoon. He was playing on the chute in Central Park and fell on his wrist. No. 5 Five Times on End. Number five paid five dividends on end at the Trentham races on Saturday: High Comedy, dead-heat for second in the Plunket Nursery; Silvefmine, first in the Thompson Handicap; Karapoti, first' in the North Island Challenge Stakes; Simba, first in the Silvcrstream Handicap ; and Autopay. second in the Railway Handicap. The dividends paid by Silvermine and Simba were the best of the day.

Scout’s Funeral. The funeral of Robert Bass, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Bass, of Wadestown, who was killed as the result of a bicycle accident on Thursday, took place at the Karori Cemetery on Saturday. He was a member of the Wadestown troop of Boy Scouts, the members of which attended the funeral. Boy friends from Wadestown School also walked on either side of the coffin, and there was large attendance of friends and sympathisers.

Fall Over Cliff.’ Thomas Stinson, storeman, employed by the National Mortgage Company, Dunedin, was killed when he fell over a 250 ft cliff at Karitane Point yesterday afternoon, states a Press Association message.

National Park Attractions. Sir Fowell Buxton and Colonel Whitmore, D. 5.0., well known English sportsmen, have been spending a few days viewing the attractions in National Park. While at the Chateau these visitors made numerous inquiries as to the game possibilities of’the park. Colonel Whitmore, who is an authority on fishing, was very enthusiastic over some of the fine rainbow trout brought into the Chateau by visitors and was surprised at the condition and weights of the catches.

Impulse to Hurl Food. “I see no fun in hurling food across the supper room, and I. see no fun in cocktail parties,” said Dr. Marion Whyte at Dunedin a day or two ago when referring to dancing as a feature in the lives of young people. “Nobody can listen to the insistent urge of jazz—barbaric music gathered from African tribes in rites we blush to see —without doing something, and there is no doubt that from this springs the impulse to hurl food across the supper room.”

Picnic Appetites. Those who attended the police picnic at Hutt Park yesterday consumed 15 gallons of milk, 40 gallons of soft drinks, and 13 gallons of ice cream, besides biscuits, fruit, etc., stated one of the officials.

Planes Over City. A number of the machines which attended the air pageant at Hood Aerodrome, Masterton, returned to Wellington yesterday, and ■ were seen over the city. Among them were the tom-tits, which might have been recognised by their engine noise being different from that of the Moth.

Warships’ Movements. Aftey carrying out a series of gunnery exercises in the Hauraki Gulf in conjunction with the sloop Veronica, the cruiser Diomede has returned to Auckland. The Veronica at the conclusion of the exercises proceeded to Akaroa, while the Laburnum is also making an extensive southern cruise. The ' minesweeper Wakakura is away from Auckland on her annual cruise, and when the Diomede leaves shortly for Wellington, where the crew will undergo their annual musketry course, there will be no warships at Auckland.

When the Shark Was Opened. - When the 910Jb. tiger shark recently caught in the Bay of Islands by Dr. Pettit, of Auckland, was opened a miscellaneous assortment was found. including a 4ft mako shark, the backbone of another mako shark, a gannet, seven large layers of whalebone, all in one piece, a hapuka weighing 401 b., as 2511?.: lump of whale, blubber, and other unrecognisable things.

Sale of Blackberries. The Dunedin wholesale fruit auctioneers have received advice from the Agricultural Department that they are prohibited from selling blackberries on the ground that blackberry is included in the list of noxious weeds.

Criminal Bankruptcy. “If a man incurs debts and continues to incur them without reasonable expectation of payment, he injures other men as effectively as if he deprived them of their resources by a false pretence,, said his Honour Mr. Justice Kennedy in the Supreme Court, Christchurch, in sentencing Harold Heney, grain agent, to three months’ imprisonment o n seven breaches of the Bankruptcy Act.

Statue of Sir Joseph Ward. A sketch model of the late Sir Joseph Ward has been completed by Mr. W. H. Feldon, sculptor, of Auckland. A full life-size figure in statuary marble wiU be carved from the model and completed before the end of the year. It J 7l " be erected in the square in front ot the post office in Invercargill.

Fled from Oratorical Torrent. The action of two members ©t the Canterbury athletic team which visited Dunedin for the 1931 New Zealand championships in walking out of the hall during the presentation of prizes was mentioned at a meeting of the Canterbury centre A member in explaining the incident said: “They were patting themselves on the back so much that the boys simply got tired and went out. Another member: ‘At an early P 1 ’ I , 7 *’ giving at Dunedin every member of . the audience walked out during a long-wind-ed speech.” Directing Cars from RoseneatJi. The City Council traffic department could very well paint a line to direct motorists coming down from Roseneath on to Oriental Parade and desirous of turning to the right toward Evans Bay. At present there is no such direction, and a few days ago a collision occurred because a motorist took the turn too sharply. ' Motor-cars coming down the hill should be directed to go well toward the tram terminus opposite the kiosk before making the turn, as their presence is hidden from cars coming from Evans ■ Bay by the ' stone wall until they are well on the Parade..