ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 50, 22 November 1932, Page 11

ITEMS IN BRIEF

About People and Events CAR OVER STEEP BANK At 5.20 o’clock yesterday morning a motor-car driven by Mr. William Leatham, who delivers the “Dominion” on the Mount Victoria round, left the roil ’ at a dangerous curve at the eastern end of Palliser Road. The car toppled down the steep bank, crashed through a fence and continued its downward course, finally coming to rest some 200 feet from the roadway. Mr. Leatham was accompanied by his sou, who managed to jump clear as the car crashed through the fence. Mr. Leatham, however, remained in the car throughout, and although he was not seriously hurt, he was considerably bruised and dazed. The car was considerably damaged.

Surface Sealing. The surface sealing of Hay Street and Telford Terrace (Oriental Bay) is to be put in baud as soon as City Council funds permit. Slip in Barnard Street.

The offer of a property-owner to contribute half the cost of the reconstruction work required in connection with the slip at Barnard Street (Wadestown) has been accepted by the City Council, and the work is to be put in hand at the cost to the City Council of £3B.

Unusual Golf Feat. A remarkable performance was put up by J. Winterburn on the Otaki golf links recently. When playing in a foursome game he holed out at “The Swamp,’’ 157 yards, in one in the first round of the game, and in the second round again holed out the same hole in one, thus holing out the same hole in one twice during the same game.

Spades for Children. The Boys’ Institute workshop has received an order for 17,000 children’s wooden spades for Christmas sales, as the result of the hobbies’ exhibition at the Town Hall last week. A start has already been made on this work and the boys are turning out an average of three gross of spades a day.

Euchre Parties. The Karori West School Committee, at a meeting last week, passed a resolution protesting against the prohibition of euchre parties for the purpose of raising funds for the benefit of school children, and expressing the hope that Parliament and the Government will use their best endeavours to put Mr. R. McKeen’s Bill through as soon as possible, as owing to the reduced education grants the position is very acute.

A West Coast “De Groot.” An amusing incident took place at the opening of the Haupiri Bridge at Kopara on the West Coast. Just prior to the ceremony of the cutting of the ribbon being performed a well-known West Coast identity, an Irishman, galloped up on a horse, and, with a dramatic sweep of a stick, severed the ribbon across the bridge and triumphantly galloped over it. The action of the amateur “De Groot” caused much laughter among those present.

Complaints of “Loafing.” “General complaints have been received as to men ‘loafing’ on the job, but as far as I can see''tills trouble will always be evident while the present scheme obtains,” said Mr. L. F. Faram, engineer to the Waitemata County Council, in a report in connection with relief workers, received at a meeting of the council recently. Mr. Faram added that the unemployed workers in the county had been fully occupied during the month and generally good work was being done. The Chain Letter.

The peculiar custom of passing-on incoherent chain letters seems to be very difficult to eradicate. A typical one of these concoctions has just been received by a Panmure, Auckland, resident, containing the usual obscure threats and promises. An original feature about it is that it is prefaced by a list of about 60 names of people set out to suggest that the letter has been passed on from each one of these to the next in order. Only a few of the names are English and a glance over them suggests that the letter may well have already completed the specified “three times round the world.”

Vicious Dog Befriended. A stray dog which was befriended by a Ponsonby woman in poor circumstances, was responsible for the appearance of the woman before Mr. W. R. McKeen, S.M., in the Auckland Police Court. She pleaded guilty to a charge of keeping a dangerous dog. The evidence showed that the animal appeared to have no owner and was fed by defendant Three months later, the dog attacked another woman. In convicting the woman, the magistrate said, that, under the circumstances, he would not impose a penalty. The dog had been destroyed as a result of the complaint