ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 155, 28 March 1932, Page 11

ITEMS IN BRIEF

About People and Events TAX EXEMPTION The amount paid to the Unemployment Fund in wages tax is exempted from income tax for the Consolidated Fund, a Land and Income Tax Department official explained to a reporter last week. A case quoted was that of a man earning £4OO. Under the new tax he would pay £2O a year unemployment tax. This, the reporter was told, comes into the same category as premium on a life insurance policy. It is exempted from income tax. In this case the man would pay Income tax on the taxable balance of the remaining £3BO, assuming that he had no other exemptions. Umpire Injured. In endeavouring to evade a fast-mov-ing ball, toward the end of the Veter-ans-Colts cricket match at the Basin Reserve on Saturday, Mr. S. H. Ferguson, an umpire, fell and sprained an ankle slightly. Thefts from Tennis Players. Petty thieves have been at work in the dressing rooms at the Miramar tennis courts during the progress of the Easter tournament. Many complaints have been heard from players respecting the Joss of silver and ten-shilling notes, left in clothes in the dressing rooms while matches are in progress. One player said that even a pair of sox had been removed from his shores. Toni by Barbed Wire. Caught yesterday afternoon in a barbed-wire fence, Olive Butler, of 13 Fore Street, Kalwarra, a small girl, suffered a severe lacerated wound to her right arm. She was taken to hospital by the Free Ambulance. Disorderly Behaviour. “He was singing out and waving his arms about,” said Sub-Inspector Lopdell in the Police Court on Saturday, describing the conduct in the street on Good Friday of YVllliam Vinard, seaman, aged 49, who was charged with behaving in a disorderly manner while drunk. Accused, who was stated to be a methylated spirits addict, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment by Messrs. D. H. Edgar and H. Seaton, J.P.’s. Conversion of Car Alleged. Arrested by Detective YVaterson, John Charles Cannon, ’ draughtsman, aged 26, appeared before justices of the peace in the Police Court on Saturday on a charge of unlawfully converting to his own use a motor-car, valued at £lOO, the property of Albert Edward Price. On the application of Detec-tive-Sergeant Revell, accused was remanded until Friday next. Bail was allowed. Window Damaged. Putting his foot through a plateglass window in Parish Street, Robert Cecil Rutledge, seaman, aged 21, caused damage estimated at £b/o/-. This he was ordered by justices of the peace in the Police Court on Saturday, to make good within two months. On a charge of drunkenness, he was fined 10/-.

Bursary Award. . At the last, meeting ol the Victoria College Council, Lady Stout’s bursary was awarded to Miss Margaret Gibbs. As Miss Gibbs had to go to Palmerston North, and the conditions of the bursary are that the holder must work at Vlctorfa College, the council lias adopted the recommendation of the Professorial Board that (lie bursary be awarded to Miss Julia Dunn.

Severely Scalded. One of three boys who were camping together at. Gollan's Valley stepped into a tin of boiling water on Saturday evening and was severely scalded on the left leg. The injured boy was C. Honore. of 26 Imperial Terrace, Kilbirnie. aged 15. He was brought over the hills yesterday to Muritai and was taken in the afternoon by the Free Ambulance to hospital. His leg was scalded almost to the knee, although bis foot had been saved to some degree by his boot.

Mishap YVliitc Bathing. YVhilc bathing yesterday morning at Tiiuherenikau, Miss J. Carr, of 320 the Terrace, YVellington, cut her right foot severely on some sharp object under the water. She was taken by the Free Ambulance from the Public Works camp. Kaitokc. to hospital.

Radio for Emergencies. A portable radio transmitter will be operated from the Khandallah reserve at 2 o’clock this afternoon by members of the New Zealand Society of Amateur Radio Transmitters. Members of the Short-wave Club will arrange for listeners to report on the tests. The demonstration is intended as a reproduction of conditions which would obtain in the event of earthquakes causing Interruption of telegraph services.