ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 259, 28 July 1932, Page 11

ITEMS IN BRIEF

About People and Events HELPING RELIEF FUNDS Infinite is the variety of the wares that are sent in weekly to the “community sing” to be sold In aid of the Mayor’s Relief Fund. Yesterday the goods ranged from a pair of tiny kittens to a moderate pile of sausages. There were slippers, tea cosies, knitted garments of all kinds (which are very welcome), and a model yacht (which brought 12/-). A ham was received from Taranaki and a ton of potatoes. The Mayor’s Fund. A meeting of the general committee of the Mayor’s Relief Fund’ Is to be held In the Mayor’s room at 4 p.m. on Monday next Committed for Sentence. Alfred Kennedy, labourer, aged 27, pleaded guilty before Mr. E. Page, S.M., In the Police Court yesterday to breaking and entering the shop of Mr. L. T. H. Bramley at Khandallah and stealing goods valued at £3. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.

Kuahine From London. With passengers, mails, and cargo, the New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Ruahine is due in the stream at Wellington at eight o’clock this morning from London, via the Panama Canal. After pratique has been granted she will berth about nine o’clock at the Plpitea Wharf.

Cases Remanded. Remands until August 3 were granted by Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday, in the cases of Herbert Leah Paterson, clerk, aged 29, charged with obtaining £6/10/- by false pretences; George Frederick Murphy, labourer, aged 34, charged with breaking and entering the house of Mr. G. P. H. Davidson, Rawhiti Terrace, with intent to commit theft; and Allan William Wishart, blacksmith, aged 41, charged with obtaining £1 by means of a false pretence.

Memorial Essay Awards. The senior Government apiary instructor, Mr. E. A. Earp, announced at yesterday’s meeting of the National Beekeepers’ Association his awards in the Isaac Hopkins’ Memorial essay competition, as follow:—Mr. J. Rentoul, Auckland, “Marketing Honey in New Zealand,” 1; Mr. W. J. Ashcroft, Havelock North, “Starting Beekeeping,” 2; Mr. W. Nelson Otorohanga, “Suggestions for, a Marketing Association,” 3; Mr. C. A. Pope, Christchurch, “Insurance,” 4.

Minus Singlets and Socks. “It Is so terrible to see men going to work in the open in this weather without singlets or sox,” ran a passage in a letter from Mrs. Line, of Wellington South, to Mrs. Albert Russell, and lead at yesterday’s “community sing” In the Town Hall. Mrs. Russell announced that at the request of Mrs. Line she had offered to lead a “community sing” at St Ann’s Hall, Newtown, at 8 p.m. on August 3, when the whole of the proceeds would go toward-the purchase of singlets and socks for the men on the relief works.