CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 291, 4 September 1933, Page 10

CITY AND SUBURBAN

Happenings About the Town INCIDENTS, OBSERVATIONS A compound fracture of the left leg was received by J. • Robinson, millhand, of Akatarawa, when his motorcycle skidded in some loose metal at Heretaunga on Saturday afternoon. After being attended by Dr. Tweed, he was taken to the .hospital by the Free Ambulance. A child, Donald Thomas, living with his parents at Awarua Road, Ngaio, fractured his right arm on Saturday when he fell over a bank. He was attended by Dr. LitchfielH, and was taken to the hospital by the Free Ambulance. ■\ Primary schools in the Wellington Education Board's district will reopen to-day after the second term holidays, which began on August 18. The main Wellington colleges will not resume until the . following week. A.number of petty thefts have been reported by residents in the vicinity of Hawker and Majoribanks Streets and Oriental Parade. Milk tokens, bottles .of milk and vhrious of food • left in safes have been taken. ; Two further donations to the Mayor’s fund for the relief ot distress have been received. The proceeds of the football match between the Police arid Post arid Telegraph Departments amounted to £l2O and J. R. ycKenzie, Ltd., forwarded £5O. , The Akatarawa Road was closed for traffic all day yesterday, . the cause being a blockage at the spot where a> slip came down recently!. Public Works Department meh, after working all day, made the road passable, but only for careful and experienced drivers, ■ » .• Two members of the Wellington wharf police staff, Constable J. ;C. Fletcher and Constable C. George, hate received notices of transfer. Constable Fletcher is going to the police arms office at Wanganui, and Constable George, a well-known player for Marist. Rugby Football Club, to Westport;. ■ \:j'f -'Y, ■? nil 111 I!■ »"Il - ■| t II .? •- A severe lacerated wound to bis right leg was received by Mr.: B. F. Smuts-Kennedy, of 58 Manners Street,..; When in a Cuba Street butcher’s shop he was struck by a knife falling out of its sheath. He was taken to the hospital 'by the Free Ambulance, and later proceeded to his honje.- . A small outbreak of fire, due to a defective chimney, occurred in a wooden two-Storled building, 5 .Fifeshire Averilie,' yesterday afternoon. .The fire was confined to a small portion of the house around the chimney' and was extinguished by the fire’ brigade with but little difficulty. Free picture > entertainment was given to 5000 children oh Saturday by Kemball Theatres, Ltd., at three of their theatres. The concession was in response to a request of the social committee of the - Wellington ' Relief Workers’ Union, and special concessions were also granted by the tramways de- • partment. As a result of donations by several confectionery firms, each child was handed a bag of sweets. Grants allocated to various charitable and educational institutions under the Thomas George Macarthy Trust wiU be announced to-day, following a meeting of the Board of Governors of the trusts to be held in the Executive Council room, Parliament Buildings. The amounts'allocated'will be available tomorrow at the various offices of the Public Trust Office throughout the Wellington provincial district On the application of Detective-Serr geanf Revell, a remand until to-day was granted to William James Ashmore, labourer, aged 20, and Barringtori Greig Browne, welder, aged 20, who' were charged before Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., in the Police Court on Saturday with stealing £5, the property of James McMillan. Browne was also charged with stealing s eoat, valued at £4/10/-, the property of James Maurice! Cleary. 11-, v. ; -.“I ■ .•■: -v ' -• “In the War Memorial Carillon, which has been silenced through lack of funds, there is a bell presented in x memory of the New. Zealand dead in the Boer War,” said Mr. J. I. Goldsmith at the ‘annual meeting of the/ Wellington South African War Veter- : ans’ Association on Saturday evening. “I know times are hard for many of our members, but I am sure we could all assist in some small-Treasure by means of subscriptions to create a fund sufficient to set the. bells ririging once more on the anniversary of the Treaty of Vereeniging in May next.”