ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 188, 7 May 1931, Page 11

ITEMS IN BRIEF

About People and Events

COLERIDGE POWER

The Public Works Department advises that there is no fear that Christchurch will suffer from a shortage of electric power from the Lake Coleridge plant this winter as was the case last year. It is reported that the level of the lake is at present approximately the same now as it was at this time last year. However, it is significant that whereas the level was falling at this time last year owing to a lack of rain, the level is now rising as a result of plentiful rainfall during the past few weeks. There is thus no' fear that the city of Christchurch and the surrounding area supplied by the Lake Coleridge works will suffer any inconvenience during the winter months.

Failure to Register. The first ease in Christchurch in which a man. is to be charged with haring failed to register under the Unemployment Act trill come on for hearing shortly.

Hastings Telephones. ' Already about 230 Hastings subscribers are connected with the automatic telephone service now being installed, and it is expected that the installation will be complete by the end of the present month.

Discovery Sails. At 7 a.m. yesterday the Antarctic research stip Discovery, which arrived at Wellington on Saturday afternoon from Melbourne, to coal and take in stores, left port for her long voyage to London, via Cape Horn and Montevideo.

Yacht Teddy Sheltering. The Marine Department was advised yesterday by the principal lighthousekeeper at Cape Brett that the Norwegian yacht Teddy was sheltering in Orokawa Bay, nine miles north of Cape Brett, owing to unfavourable weather.

War Pension. Appeal Board. A resolution entering an emphatic proi test against the proposals by the. Government to abolish the War Pensions Appeal Board was passed at a largely-at-tended meeting of the Wairarapa Returned Soldiers’ Association last night, states a Press Association message.

Station Hand’s Death. An elderly station hand named William John Smale was found dead on Tuesday at Kahunahuna Station, states. a Press Association message. At an inquest yesterday morning a verdict of suicide while temporarily of unsound mind was returned.

Electrician Burned. Engaged in welding operations, W. J. Barrett, electrician, suffered severe burns to the right hand at Hansford and Mills’s foundry in Cable Street shortly after 11 o’clock yesterday morning. He was taken to the hospital by the Free Ambulance. . Fall from Motor-cycle. Suffering from a fractured ankle, H. S! Curtis, Boulcott Street, draughtsman, was taken to the hospital by the Free Ambulance shortly before 9 a.m. yesterday. He had fallen from his motorcycle in Moxham Avenue, HataitaL. Westland’s Dry SpelL "J Owing to ’ the' continued spell qf-idry weather, water for- domestic services is becoming a scarce commodity in the small-, er towns on the West Coast that are not served bv a water supply, and in consequence many residents find it is necessary to have water carted. At Runanga the Borough Council is attending to the supply of water to its residents. ■ Accident at Relief Works. Struck bv a pick while working on the relief works at Rolleston Street, ■W. Harefield, 153 Hanson Street, labourer, received an injury, to his right ankle, about 1.30 p.m. yesterday. He was taken to the hospital by the Free Ambulance. .

Art Union Winners. The two Hamner residents who won the first prize in the Lucky Dog Art Union, journeyed to Christchurch last week to collect the proceeds; Mr. H. Woods left £BOO of his winnings on paid deposit, with the Bank of New Zealand, the balance. £2OO, to be paid into his Post Office Savings Bank account. Master H._ Paterson, the other winner, made a gift of -half his winnings to his mother, and deposited the other half on fixed deposit. Mns. M. A. Paterson has also received from the management of the art'Union the sum of £25 for selling the winning ticket.

Electricity Dangers. . “When any leakage in electricity is discovered, it is a golden rule to notify the supply authority as soon as possible, said a Christchurch municipal electricity department official, giving evidence at. an electrocution inquest. If life were imperilled the right thing to do was to try to break contact without touching the body- In this case life might have Men saved had the feet of the man been lifted off the ground and the contact broken. The person breaking the contact would have to picked the man up by the clothes.