ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 171, 16 April 1931, Page 11

ITEMS IN BRIEF

About People and Events POPPY DAY NEXT WEEK Poppy Day will be to-morrow week, the day before Anzac Day. A number of stalls in various parts of the city have been arranged, and the allocation will be announced shortly. “Diggers’ ” Reunion. The ninth annual “Diggers’ ” reunion under the auspices of the Eastbourne branch of the Returned Soldiers’ Association will be held in the gymnasium next Saturday night. Again Remanded. Appearing ou remand in the Police Court yesterday, Charles Maurice Collins, alias George Charles Octavian Orland, a labourer, aged 24, who was charged with breaking and entering and theft at a shop in Lower Hutt, was remanded again until April 22. Broken Kneecap. Slipping while alighting from a tram at the Hataitai terminus soon after 5 p.m. yesterday, J. Fegan, 22 William Street, a driver, fractured his kneecap. After receiving attention from Dr. Tennant, he was taken to the hospital by the Free- Ambulance. Payment for Rugby Broadcasts Asked. . The broadcasting of Rugby matches will be permitted by the .Canterbury Rugby Union this season, provided that the Broadcasting Company is prepared to pay for the privilege (states a Press Association message from Christchurch). This decision was reached at Tuesday night’s meeting of the union. Launch Takes Shelter. Concern was felt for the safety of the launch Scotia, which had on board a crew of two, William Young and a youthful Maori named Hill. The craft left Wanganui on Friday on a fishing trip. Notification has been received, however, that the Scotia took shelter in New Plymouth on Monday from the storm, and is still there. Highway Maintenance Costs. The average cost of maintaining highways in the Masterton county during the year ended March 31 was £l5B/10/a mile, states a “Dominion” Special Service message. The most expensive road was the 13J mile section of the Welling-ton-Napier Highway, which passes through the county. This cost £4422, or £327 a mile, including preparatory work for surface sealing of four miles. Camp Road Tar-sealed. Patrons of race meetings at Trentbam will be pleased to hear that Camp Road, from the corner of the Hutt Road into well inside the camp gates, has been tarsealed. This stretch of road in dry weather has been.a very dusty, unpleasant thoroughfare, while on wet days it was muddy and full of pools of dirty water. Side by Side. “An American writer once stated that on ceremonial occasions the Englishman preceded his wife, the American woman preceded her husband, but the French woman walked alongside of him. To my mind the French plan is certainly the ideal one,” said the Mayor, Mr, G. A. Troup, in addressing the National Council of Women yesterday. Sportsmen and Aeroplanes. An Order-in-Council has been gazetted relative to the use of aeroplanes and power-boats in connection with the taking of game. It would appear from discussion at last evening’s meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society that sportsmen are not prevented from going to their shooting grounds by either of these two means of transport, but they are debarred from shooting from either a plane or a power-boat. Liberation of Trout.

Yearling fish aggregating 21,500 rainbow and 8000 brown trout, have been liberated in the North Taranaki streams since February, and several thousand more will be released within the next few weeks, states a “Dominion” Special Service message from New Plymouth. During the past year the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society liberated 450,000 fry, and 150 pheasants.

Valued Services. Appreciative reference to the valuable work which had been done for the Red Cross Society by the late Mrs. George Roberts (Otago), the late Mr. J. A. Flesher (Canterbury), and the late Mr. Wesley Spragg (Auckland), was made at the annual meeting of the society yesterday by the president, Hon. Sir Heaton Rhodes, M.L.C., On his motion, a vote of condolence with the relatives was carried.

Fatal Fall From Power Pole. A “Dominion” Special Service message from Palmerston North says that a verdict that death was due to a dislocation of the vertebrae through falling off an electric power pole, the fall being caused by an accidental shock received when the deceased was changing the position of his safety belt, was returned by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., at an inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Joseph Alfred Cole.

Anzac Day March. Members of the British Expeditionary Forces met in the Returned Soldiers’ Association rooms last night and decided to join in the march to the War Memorial on Anzac Day. Men attended from the Royal Marines, the Royal Sussex Regiment. the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, the Essex Regiment, the King’s Royal Rifles, the King’s Regiment, the 12th Prince of Wales’ Royal Lancers, the 16th Irish, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, the 12th Argyls, the Royal Fusiliers, and the Royal Scots.

Present Rating System. “This city is rated entirely under the unimproved value,” said Mr. Martin Luckie, candidate for the Mayoralty, in his speech at Karori. “What people, are apt to lose sight of is that when the city is so rated you cannot get increased expenditure without increasing the rates.” Mr. Luckie spoke of how all the big buildings in Wellington were escaping as a result of the step taken on the result of a poll three years ago when the present rating system was sanctioned. Residents over the whole of Wellington were paying what the buildings should be paying.

The Central Library. “Is any member of the libraries committee present?” inquired an elector at the meeting of local body candidates at Hataitai last evening. ‘‘l don’t know what kind of a librarian there is aj. the Central Library, but be appears to be stocking the weirdest kind of books Would you believe it, I was unable to got ‘The Life of Lord Haldane’ at the library.” Councillor T. C. A. Hislop, who is chairman of the libraries’ committee, repliedthat he considered that the librarian at the Central Library had improved the institution vastly. He bad himself seen on the shelves the book which had been referred to. “You get the book,” said Mr. Hislop; “you will enjoy it.”

A Real “Old Boy.” There are not many still alive, who attended Wellington College when it was located in Clifton Terrace, practically on the site of what is now the . Terrace School. Among those who remain is Mr. J. Costin Webb. M.A., who lives in Talavera Terrace, within a stone’s throw of the old spot. Mr. Webb attended the college there as far back as 18<3. and while a new college was being erected (the one now being demolished), he attended for a year Bowden’s School, in Featherston Terrace. Tn 1875 he rejoined the college, and remained there until IS7S or 1879. becoming dux of the school nnd gaining a double scholarship. Mr. Webl) subsequently became a teacher, ami for some years.before his retirement was headmaster of the Thorndon School.