ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 189, 8 May 1931, Page 11

ITEMS IN BRIEF

About People and Events

AID FOR WORKLESS WOMEN

An effort to find occupation and amusement for unemployed women is being made by the Wellington Y.W.C.A., and a meeting to which all workless women and girls are invited is to be held this afternoon. The programme includes afternoon tea and community singing. Unemployed women may enrol for classes in clothing renovation, physical culture, and clerical practice which will commence next week. A darning and mending depot is being established and this will afford unemployed women an opportunity to earn a little money. Chinese Remanded.

Wong Deen, laundryman, was in the Police Court yesterday remanded for a week on a charge of staying in New Zealand after his temporary immigration permit had expired.

Travellers’ Samples Stolen. The theft of a quantity of linen, valued at £4O, from his motor-car which was parked in Dixon Street, has been reported to the Masterton police by a commercial traveller (states a “Dominion” Special Service message from Masterton). The doors of the car were not locked.

“The Young Matter More.” ' ? • “Someone asked ihe once why I work so much among the young,” said the Rev. Fielden Taylor at the annual meeting of the Wellington City Mission last evening. "My reply was that the young matter more than anyone else.”

Approach to Sea view Road. Improvements in the approach to Seaview Road, now being concreted to a breadth of 24 feet, are to be made by the Lower Hutt Borough Council. The angle of the entrance from Randwick Road is to be straightened out by an extension of the road on the western side, which will necessitate the removal of an electric light pole, bearing a big transformer.

Parliament Grounds Improvement

Improvements are being made to the entrance to Parliament House grounds leading from the Bowen Street-Lambton Quay corner. The old guard-house . which ‘ stood inside the gates for many years was removed recently and a small, ’ untidy area was left on the site. This is now being sloped with soil In conformity with the bank on the western side, and it will be planted in grass later, v The small brick retaining wall will ,be concealed by the filling work which, will improve considerably the appearance of the corner. The old guard-house now serves as a week-end dwelling on the- v eastern side of the harbour. •;

Students’ Ceremony. The congratulatory cbremony for this year’s graduates of Victoria University College will be held this evening in the large Town Hall, commencing shortly after 7.30. The chair will be taken by the Mayor-elect, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, and the chief speaker of the evening will be Dr. J. S. Elliott. The graduates will be congratulated upon their examination successes, and a programme of students’ songs will be presented. The annual capping ball will follow. Monster Mushroom.

Yet another claim for the largest mushroom of the season is made. A report that a mushroom measuring 9in. across had been picked close to New Plymouth brought the claim that one measuring lOJiu. by 9in. had been secured on the Waihi Plains. Now Miss H. Roberts, of Onehunga, has submitted photographic evidence to the “New Zealand Herald” of a monster mushroom which she secured near Kaukapakapa, North Auckland, on Anzae Day. This mushroom measured 15in. by 9in.

Flotsam and Jetsam. The action of the Wellington police in stopping people who were gathering in the wreckage cast ashore from the steamer Progress brings the law on the subject of flotsam and jetsam into prominence. Jetsam defines goods which are cast into the sea from a ship, whether to lighten the vessel in danger or from other causes, and Wthich sink. If the owner cannot be found, jetsam belongs to the finder. That also applies to ligan, wthich term defines goods sunk under the surface, but attached to a cork or buoy so that they can be recovered. Flotsam is the term for goods or wreckage cast up on land after a wreck. AU unclaimed flotsam is the property of the State.