ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 275, 16 August 1932, Page 11

ITEMS IN BRIEF

About People and Events HEAVY DISTANT QUAKE Early on Sunday morning, the waves from a heavy, distant earthquake were recorded by instruments at the Dominion Observatory, Kelburn. It was estimated that the centre of the disturbance was about 1000 miles from Wellington in a north-westerly direction, and thus apparently at some point between Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Heavy shocks were recorded here for the first 20 minutes, and the oscillations continued for one - and a half hours. The earthquake was recorded also in the Chatham Islands and North Canterbury. Death on Football Field. A youth named Janies Taylor, 18 years of age, while playing football at the High School, Timaru, suddenly collapsed and died. Players Walk Off. Dissatisfied with the decision of a referee in a senior Soccer match at Dunedin three players walked off the field. One, however, returned for the three minutes of remaining play. Cyclist Fatally Injured. Powell Christie, aged 23, of Mataura, died in the hospital as the result of being knocked off his cycle by a motorcar on the Gore-Mataura road. Deceased was to have been married next week. Day of Assumption. Yesterday was the Day of Assumption. This Is always marked by special services in every Roman Catholic church, and in Wellington the services held in the forenoon were crowded. The day commemorates the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven. Hockey Referees’ Challenge. The Wellington Hockey Referees’ Association, at its meeting last night, decided to challenge the management committee of the Wellington Hockey Association to a match to be played at the end of the present season. Water for Eastbourne. The main which is to convey water to Eastbourne has been laid the full length of Day’s Bay, and during last week junction tests were made by water under pressure from a pump. Spirally reinforced concrete mains are being used on the job. 29,490 Tennis Players in N.Z. The total membership of lawn tennis clubs in the Dominion is about 29,490 according to the report of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association which will be submitted at the annual meeting in Wellington on August 26. There are 20 associations affiliated with the New Zealand body. The latest rolls show Canterbury leading with 5353 members. Auckland is second with 4760 members, and the membership of the Wellington association is 3056. Summer and Winter. Sunday presented some diverse pictures that go to illustrate the beauty and variety of Wellington’s winter weather. Many people in motor-cars sped to the heights of the Rimutakas, to get a “feel” of the snow,, which lay like a pelisse of white fur on the blue mountain shoulders. Away down on the flat of the Hutt Valley, in the green paddocks by Moonshine bridge, picnic parties spread out upon the grass. Some of these folk even lay asleep in the warm sunshine. Although it was winter on the mountain-crest, it was summer in the vale. Dogs in Demand. That there are many people in Wellington willing to take charge of homeless dogs was demonstrated last Saturday following the publication in “The Dominion” of an appeal by the TailWaggers’ Club for a home for “Pipitea,” the dog who earned distinction by producing six puppies on Pipitea Wharf. A woman resident of Eastbourne read the appeal in the morning newspaper when coming to the city on the Eastbourne ferry. She arrived at the TailWaggers’ Club at 8.45 a.m., and arranged to take the dog. Since then the club has received about a dozen-in-quiries regarding the dog, half of which came from places well outside Wellington?