ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 147, 17 March 1933, Page 13

ITEMS IN BRIEF

About People and Events SUMMER TIME ENDING To-morrow will virtually be the last day of Summer Time, and standard time will be reverted to at 2 a.m. on Sunday until next October. Persons should remember to put their clocks back half an hour before retiring tomorrow. With the clocks back it will be dark on Sunday evening by about 6.45 p.m., as the sun sets that day at 6.7 p.m. Death Under Anaesthetic. Martin Grosvenor, aged 27, died at Napier Hospital yesterday morning while under an anaesthetic.

St. Patrick’s Day. To-day is St. Patrick’s Day, and a holiday will be observed by the banks and legal offices. There will be races at Trentham and in the evening a national concert will be held in the Town Hall.

Exports of Gold. A Gazette notice published yesterdaj; exempts the following items from the duty on gold exports imposed by Parliament last session:—Heirlooms which have become the property of some person outside New Zealand; gifts sent abroad by persons resident in New Zealand; household effects belonging to persons leaving New Zealand to reside abroad, and which have been in use for at least a year.

Race Day. Fixtures on race days are not popular in the Arbitration Court, and although the court sat yesterday to make fixtures, none was made for today on account of the races. The court will sit on Monday, and from then on to the end of the month the days will be very full ones. No blank was left even for the big cricket match next week.

A Homeless Cat. A very lean but perfectly healthy cat came into possession of the Tail-Wag-gers’ Club yesterday, and the club hopes that somebody will offer to give the animal a home. Two women noticed that the cat had been living a precarious existence in the Courtenay Place area, and they communicated with the club's offices in Lambton Quay. The cat has been liberally fed, but cats are not within the province of the Tail-Waggers’ Club. Free Ambulance Work.

During the month of February the Wellington Free Ambulance attended to 58 accidents, 446 transports, 6 slight and one serious office cases—a total of 511, as compared with 448 for February, 1932. The details of the cases are as follow City and suburbs, 424; Ngahauranga, 1; Petone, 27; Lower Hutt, 26; Haywards, 1; Silverstream, 1; Wallaceville, 2; Upper Hutt, 3; Point Howard, 1; York Bay, 1; Lowry Bay, 2; Eastbourne, 6; Johnsonville, 2; Glenside, 1; Tawa Flat, 1; to Porirua, 7; from Porirua, 1; Plimmerton, 1; Paraparaumu, 1; Otaki, 1; and Makara South, 1.