ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 293, 6 September 1932, Page 11

ITEMS IN BRIEF

About People and Events SCHOOL BEGINS AGAIN Many primary schools under the Wellington Education Board opened yesterday, after the term holidays. The rest will open to-day. The Technical College 'will resume next Monday, and Wellington, Rongotai, and Wellington Girls’ Colleges next Tuesday. Civic Commission’s Report. A special meeting of the City Council will be held at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday. September 14, to discuss the Civic 'Commission’s report. Better Tinies. “Conditions are improving m Australia— things are distinctly better,” said Captain L. C. A. Worrall to “The Dominion” yesterday, on his return from a holiday trip to Australia. Napier’s New Masonic (HoteL Mr. W. J. Prouse, architect, was advised yesterday that the last part of the concrete roof of the new Masonic Hotel at Napier was “poured” yesterday. Gaol for Bicycle Thief. William James Penny, for the theft of bicycles, was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment at Dunedin. The police stated that within the last eight months 75 bicycles had been stolen In the city. Aged Man Killed. Richard Brayshaw, aged 73, in attempting to get off a moving motortruck near Tokarahi' on Sunday, reports an Oamaru message, fell under a wheel and was killed instantly. Petrol Disappears. Eight gallons of petrol disappeared from the tanks of buses in the Eastbourne Borough Council’s garage early on Friday morning. Arising from this incident, two taxi-drivers will» be charged with theft at the Lower Hutt. Court to-morrow. Slip on a Railway. The railway traffic on the north line is now practically back to normal, reports a Press Association message from Dunedin. It will be some time yet before the main track at Puketeraki is cleared. In the meantime the deviation will be used. Late Mr. J. Taylor. Sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. J. Taylor was expressed at a meeting of the council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association last evening. Mr. Taylor, who took a keen interest in athletics, was an ex-member of the council. Members stood in silence for a few moments as a mark of respect to his memory. New Relief Camp. A new unemployment relief camp has been erected a few miles out of Nelson, and the men will be engaged in dealing with hawthorn hedges in the district. The unemployment bureau needs 80 men to leave on Monday night. The work is said to be light, and the camp in pleasant surroundings. Pay will be arranged on the basis of 10/a week. , Telephone Box as Office. A disused telephone booth is doing duty as a miniature office on the unemployment relief job beside Anderson Park, where the spur on the northern end of the Botanical Gardens hill is being cut away and the spoil used to fill the adjacent gully. The one-time booth has’been placed among a number of huts used as tool-sheds by the workers. Its walls are hung with files and papers and a small counter does duty as a desk for the officer in charge of the work. Animals for Auckland Zoo. A consignment of animals and birds acquired by the Auckland City Council from the trustees of the Taronga Park Zoo, Sydney, is expected to arrive by the Maunganui on Tuesday. The collection includes a pair of great red kangaroos, one female great grey kangaroo, obtained as a mate for the male animal already at the zoo, and a pair of great wallaroos. A patas monkey, a native of West Africa, and a pig-tailed monkey, belonging to Java, are expected to prove interesting to visitors. Another acquisition is a female Australian satin bower-bird. Revenue: Aerodrome or Links? “I want to say this, gentlemen,” said Mr. D. Stratton, president of the Mornington Golf Club, before the reserves committee of the City Council yesterday afternoon, “you have a ground out at Rongotai, used as an aerodrome, for which the council receives £4OO a year which, if it were converted into a golf course, would bring in £3OOO a year, as you would be able to ask 2/6 a round as against 1/6 at Berhampore, and you would get it without any trouble.” Trip to Mount Holdsworth. Forty tramping enthusiasts, comprising members drawn from the Paua, Tararua, and Hutt Valley Tramping Clubs, made a trip to Mount Holdsworth during the week-end. The mountain house was reached in good time, and on Sunday morning the trip to the Holdsworth trig station was made in two and a half hours. From this spot a magnificent view was obtained. To the south, Mount Hector, enshrouded in a thin veil of mist, made a wonderful picture, while Mitre-Holdsworth, heavily coated with snow and ice, stood out In stern contrast. The party participated in snowballing and glissading, after which the return to the city was made in good time.