ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 169, 13 April 1932, Page 11

ITEMS IN BRIEF

About People and Events TWENTY-FOOT FALL Falling 20 feet from a window at her parents’ home in Orangl Kaupapll Road yesterday afternoon, Ngaire Bispham, aged three, fractured her left thigh. The little girl, who suffered considerably from shock, was attended to by a doctor, and taken by the Free Ambulance to the hospital. Women's Borstal Association. Tbe Women’s Borstal Association will hold its annual meeting in Wellington to-morrow evening. Sir James Allen will preside. Ratepayers’ Interests. The Wellington Civic League has been considering plans for further cooperation with suburban ratepayers’ associations, and steps are to be taken to increase the usefulness of the league to affiliated bodies. Inquiry for Relatives. Mr. John Miller, who is believed to have been a returned soldier and who has lately been staying at tbe Salvation Army Hostel, Vivian Street, took ill last Sunday and was removed to the hospital, where he died on Monday afternoon. Very little Is known about him, and the police are anxious to locate any r relatives. Task Too Great. “I am quite prepared to believe you anil I am quite prepared to believe Mr. Roberts, but I cannot believe you both at the same time,” Mr. Justice Frazer remarked to Mr. W. H. G. Bennett when matters of custom were being disputed in the Arbitration Court yesterday inorniug. Brealdng anti Entering Charge. Charged in the Police Court yesterday before Mr. E. Page, S.M., with breaking and entering a bouse at 108 Dixon Street on December 19 and stealing goods valued at £9/15/6, William Simmons, aged 48, was remanded until April 20. Women as Bowlers. Saturday will be Ladies’ Day at the Lyall Bay Bowling Club, and women will compete against tbe men. Some unusual play should be seen, as the men will be handicapped by having to bowl with tbe hand other than the one they customarily use. Hutt Road Patrol. Since Constable Morrison was transferred to tbe Arms Office a fortnight ago, motor-cycle patrol duty on the Hutt Road has been shared by officers of the City Council traffic staff. The officers work in three shifts, and this permits a close watch on the highway for longer periods than one man could undertake. Slow Morse Station. The secretary of the New Zealand Short-wave Radio Club reports that he is putting a slow Morse station on the air for the benefit of anyone who wishes to learn the Morse code. The station will be ZL2KL. It is owned and operated by Mr. N. Steele, of 9 Lipman Street, who will transmit special slow Morse on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6.30 to 7 p.m. on a wavelength of 80 metres. Beach Improvement. A communication was received from the City Council by the Wellington Civic League on Monday to the effect that steps were being taken to minimise the sand drift at Lyall Bay, while a scheme for dealing with Worser Bay was under consideration. Members of the league expressed appreciation of this, but it was considered that the council’s suggestion to defer the provision of additional conveniences was against the interests of public health. It was decided to urge the council to make a separate allocation for beaches on the estimates. Child and Ship’s Model. With his face against a shop window in which a model of a famous liner was on view, a boy, by his rapt expression. was obviously allowing his imagination full play. The crowd, which bad gathered round, as far as he was concerned, did not exist... Attracted by the model’s glittering appointments, he completely ignored a parent’s entreaties to “come along.” Force would not shift him for he clung to the corner of the window like a leech, and it was only when the father, driven to. generosity or deception, promised that the ship would be bought as a present that tbe little lad consented to move on.