ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 280, 22 August 1931, Page 9

ITEMS IN BRIEF

About People and Events

WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS

Filling the streets on its route from kerb to kerb, a white regiment moved slowly through sleeping Wellington early yesterday morning. At 2 a.m. city traffic is thin enough, but the regiment s commander watched the intersections anxiously when his vanguard reached them, and his lieutenants barked staccato orders. Down lower Willis Street went the white coats, while the sound of many -feet echoed back from the buildings; then on to the practically deserted thoroughfares near the wharves a strange, incongruous journey for sheep accustomed to turf paths and open spaces. The flock’s starting point was Happy Valley. Motorist Acquitted. LawTeuce Arthur Eddy, charged with negligent driving of a motor-car, thereby causing death, was acquitted, states a Press Association message from Invercargill. ' Fine of £lO Imposed. For exposing liquor for sale after hours at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Samuel Lockhart Gilmer (Mr. -Perry) was fined £lO in the Police Court yesterday by Mr. E. Page, S.M. Stole Postal Packets. . Roy Veysey, a postal sorter, married, with five children, pleaded guilty to stealing postal packets containing money of a total value of £65, says a Press Association message from Nelson. He was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court. Bombing Practice. An. application by tbe Air Force to hold bombing practice over Lake Ellesmere on August 27, 28, or 29 has been granted by -the council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society. Fined for Drunkenness. For a fourth offence of drunkenness, John Shannon, aged 50, was fined £2, in default seven days’ imprisonment, by Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday. " On Being “Hard Up.” “At about that time, Jerome K. Jerome’s book, ‘On Being Hard Up,’ came out, and I thought, ‘Well, Jerome K. Jerome, I could give you a lot of points,’ said Colonel J. G. Hughes, when lecturing last evening. Wellington Alpine Party. A party of 415 Wellington members of the Aoi’angi Ski Club left for the south last evening for a ten-day holiday, at The Hermitage. The winter sports meeting will be held at Mount Cook next Thursday and Friday. Services Appreciated. The Fire Brigade Recreation Club acknowledges receipt of £5 each from the New Zealand Cannister Co., and the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy., Ltd., accompanied in each case by letters expressing appreciation of the brigade’s services at recent fires. Crushed Between Motors. Internal injuries were suffered by F. Weine, Constable Street, a wicker worker, when he was crushed between a motorcar and a motor lorry opposite the Patent Slip on Thursday morning. He was taken to the hospital by the Free Ambu-. lance. Evening'MUk Delivery. , The change-over in municipal milk delivery ffiom morning to evening will take place next Thursday. On tfiat day the last morning delivery will be made, and the first evening distribution will take place the same evening between 4.30 p.m. and 11.30 p.m. A Good Taxpayer. ’ Wage tax stamps were wanted by a woman who went to the Christchurch Post Office, says “The Sun.” She said so in a brisk, businesslike manner or a woman who knows what she wants. What denomination?” asked the clerk. Presbyterian,” said the customer, promptly. Cyclist Comes to Grief. . Losing control of his bicycle at the corner of Abel Smith Street and The Terrace at about 11.45 yesterday morn-; ing, W. Smith, 26 Windsor Place, a scholar, was thrown off and suffered slight concussion. He was taken to the hospital by the Free Ambulance. . \

Fife Escape Regulations. A letter from the Wellington City Council received at yesterday’s meeting of the Wellington Fire Board, stated that the city engineer was being instructed to confer with the superintendent of the Fire Brigade with a view to amending the city by-laws in order to define the types of fire escape to be erected in the various classes of buildings in the city, . / Lawyers’ Hours. ■ Office hours which interfered with his sport were not favoured by Colonel J G. Hughes, he admitted in a lecture at the Blue Triangle last evening. Stating that he had refused a position because he found that it was likely to interfere with Ins football, in favour of a law office, he added; “They had the shortest hours, I knew of, in Napier” ?/anished Birds. Akaroa as it was about 1876 was described by Colonel J. G. Hughes last night. There were then there a profusion of native, birds, some of which he confessed that he had knocked down with his shanghai, but when he visited the town half a century later, the birds i had gone and Akaroa was a silent place. Changing School Teachers. Recent transfers of school teachers have again directed attention toward, the inconvenience caused through changes .in the middle of the school year. A parent protested yesterday that the policy of the education authorities practically compelled teachers to change schools in order to secure promotion. He expressed the opinion that advancement within large schools should be possible in the great majority of cases, while small schools could confine staff changes to the beginning of the year. A Second Taupo. “A second Taupo,” is a ranger s description of the future of Lake Coleridge, according to Mr. C. H. Lawrence, president of the council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society. At a meeting’of the society Mr. Lawrence said that Ranker Digby had secured beautiful fish at Coleridge L-up to 131 b. for rainbows and 101 b. for brown trout. It was reported that 88,000 eyed rainbow trout ova had been secured at Lake Coleridge.

A Long Walk. „ . , It was reported to the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation yesterday that a young woman was proposing to walk from Auckland to Bluff, passing through the principal cities and towns, wearing apparel entirely made in New Zealand, for the purpose of furthering goodwlill tor New Zealand products. A request was received asking that the proposal should be given the official recognition of the federation, but it was decided that .this was not within the federation’s province.

Bride Absent. . To be asked to act as matrimonial agents is not unknown to the Salvation Army in New Zealand. A Salvation. Army officer was approached by a young man - whose careful grooming and conspicuous buttonhole indicated some special occasion. “I was going to get married this morning to a girl I met through an advertisement,” the young man explained. “She didn’t appear and I want you to get me another wife,” be concluded.