CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 219, 12 June 1933, Page 11

CITY AND SUBURBAN

Happenings About the Town INCIDENTS, OBSERVATIONS Falling from a chair iu her home, at Kelburn Parade, on Saturday, Mrs. J. Adamson fractured her left leg. She was taken to the Lewisham Hospital by the Free Ambulance. Having run against a needle sticking in the wall, embedding’ it in her arm, Thelma Bull, a schoolgirl who lives at. 14 Dawson Street, Berhampore, was taken to hospital by the Free Ambulance yesterday morning. Although sporting injuries on Saturday were fairly numerous, all were of a minor nature, and after receiving attention from tlie hospital, the Free Ambulance, and the St. John Ambulance Association, the players were able to go to their homes. No further outbreaks of swine fever were reported by the Agricultural Department during the week-end, and the destruction of about 100 condemned pigs was carried out at Taita. Vigilance is not being relaxed, and it is still possible that there may be small outbreaks of the disease. Knocked down by a motor-car tn Johnsonville, about 12.30 o’clock yesterday afternoon, Patrick Cameron, a four-year-old child who lives in Ohariti Road, received a fractured right leg. After being attended to by Dr. Litchfield, he was taken to the hospital by tbe Free Ambulance. Fire was discovered iu the bakery at the rear of 234 Cuba Street, owned and occupied by Mr. William Reid Andrews, at 9.19 o’clock yesterday morning. The outbreak, which was caused by a gas jet igniting some woodwork, was suppressed by the brigade, damage being done to the building and the contents by tbe fire and water. Although no cases of bag-snatching have been reported for some time, one woman in Wellington is taking what she believes to’be extra precaution. She carries an attache case, the sole contents of which is her handbag. It would be very difficult, she considers, for a thief to snatch a case and run away with it, owing to its size and shape. Due to the exceptionally heavy frost on Saturday morning, the tendency to skid on corners caused motorists and drivers of motor lorries to exercise the greatest care. Such was the danger to fast-moving traffic that the corporation quickly got to work and had sand sprinkled over the roads at otisy street intersections. This was done at all street corners along Courtenay Place, and round about the markets. A challenge rinks game was played on the bowling green at the Winter Show building on Saturday for the rink badges. The holders were Urquhart, Whitcomb, Taylor, and McCune (Hataitai), and they were challenged ’by the Newtown rink, consisting of McKenzie, Wetherbourne. Castle, and Phillips. In a game of 21 heads they ■tied on the twenty-first head, and playing an extra head Phillips won by three points and secured the badges for his team,.