ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 43, 14 November 1932, Page 11

ITEMS IN BRIEF

About People and Events BABY BROADCAST STATION The final of the New Zealand amateur golf championship at Heretaunga on Saturday was broadcast direct from the links by means of an ultra-short-wave portable radio transmitter operating on a wavelength of 5 meters. Power was one watt, and the complete baby broadcast station weighed 301 b and was carried by one man. The aerial was strapped to an Bft, bamboo pole, and the broadcast was received at tbe clubhouse by a special super regenerative receiver, and fed into tbe land-line running to 2TA studios, where it was handled in the usual way. The mobile broadcast was arranged and carried out by three Wellington amateur transmitters and is considered to bo unique in radio performance in the Southern Hemisphere. Rose Day Collection. The final count shows that the sum of £422 was collected on Friday'in tbe city and suburbs as the result of the Rose Day appeal. Petone and Lower Hutt contributed £27/4/11. Tribute to Mr. A. Macintosh. A meeting will be held in the Dominion Farmers’ Institute at noon tomorrow with the object of paying a tribute to Mr. A. Macintosh, member of the National Expenditure Commission. An advertisement regarding the gathering appears in this issue.

Professional Soldiers. “Professional soldiers always hate war,” said Colonel F. W. W. Dawson at the reunion of Imperial Army exservicemen’ iu Christchurch. “War tends to upset all our nice theories of the way in which military operations should bo conducted. Besides that, it brings a lot of civilians into a business we had thought entirely our own.”

Fire Extinguished with Beer. “The first Methodist Church in Sydney was built on rum, and the first Methodist Church in Christchurch, which stood in High Street, was saved by beer," said the Rev. P. N. Knight at the jubilee banquet of the East Belt Wesley Church in Christchurch in responding to the toast of “Mother Church." Mr; Knight added that when the church In High Street caught fire the water supply ran out, and barrels of beer were rolled up and thrown on the flames, which were thus extinguished. Dog Kills 500 Sheep. i Since last June Belmont sheepfaimers have lost some 500 lambs and ewes through the activities of a “killer" dog, which has at last been caught. The dog displayed unusual cunning, tor he never operated on moonlight nights and never before 11 p.m. nor after 3.30 a.m. Countless watches were set, hut without success because of the wide country over which the animal worked and the uncertainty of his visitations. Finally he was caught In a trap set by Mr. W. A. Cottle, and proved to be a cross between a terrier and a sheep dog, scarcely more than two years old. The animal wore a collar without a registration plate, and his owner Is unknown. Register of Bandsmen. There are 68 bands and over 2000 bandsmen at present registered under the New Zealand Brass Bands Association. It is part of the duties of the secretary of the association, Mr. J. G. Osborne, to keep a complete register of the name and address of every bandsman whose band is allied to the association. Every three months each band has to supply a complete ‘list of its personnel, and, what is not generally known, twelve hours before each contest, bands have to supply the exact personnel of those who are to play in the contest —a precaution against the ringing-in of any players who are not legitimate members of the competing band.