ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 101, 23 January 1933, Page 10

ITEMS IN BRIEF

About People and Events

Man Found Dead.

A middle-aged man, named William McGee, a widower, was found by the milkman on Sunday morning in his home in Hanover Street lying on the floor with a rug over his head, reports a Dunedin Press Association message. He had a gas tube in his mouth and the gas was turned on. Struck by Ball.

Hit' with a cricket ball at Wakefild Park on Saturday afternoon, Mr. Herbert King, who lives at 25 Ranelagh Street, Karori, had his left eye injured, and also received concussion. He was taken to the hospital by the Free Ambulance.

For Winter Soup. In preparation for the want likely to be experienced during the coming winter In Wellington, three unemployed workers, w’ith a knowledge of gardening, are working on a patch of likely ground in the Zoo reserve at Newtown. Their job is to plant leeks,, carrots, parsnips, and other vegetables for the supply of the soup kitchens in the winter. They are planting 3000 leeks this week. Visiter From the Sea.

Apparently exhausted by the swirl of the breakers, a small penguin struggled on to 'the rocks near Island Bay one afternoon last week. Like the majority of its kind, it was quite tame, and provided amusement for picnickers. Later a man carried it to more placid water, where it dived in and made for the open sea. An onlooker remarked that he had lived in the vicinity for sixteen years, but had not previously seen a penguin on the shore.

Women Gold-diggers. Two young women, who left Auckland last week, are included in a goldprospecting party which is proceeding to the South Island. One is an Aucklander. and the other a recent arrival from England. One member of the party is a farmer residing near Auckland who has had prospecting experience in America, Australia, and New Zealand. The destination of the party is a former well-known gold-bearing area in Westland.

Question of Jobs. At one South Island freezing works the free labourer at the end of the chain gang had no flair for the work, but was doing his best in wiping down the carcases. In the surroundings his slight build and pale complexion were incongruous. A burly foreman had occasion to reprove him for his lack of skill, and when he walked away the small man shouted to the other men in the gang: “I would like to see that gentleman in my job—selling engagement rings in a jewellery shop.”