CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 34, 3 November 1933, Page 13

CITY AND SUBURBAN

Happenings About the Town

INCIDENTS, OBSERVATIONS

Wellington College will hold Us annual athletic sports at the college today. The old boys’ race is timed for 4.30 p.m.

Alfred Lockyer, schoolboy, 64 Austin Street, fell and fractured his right wrist while playing at Clyde School yesterday morning. He was taken to hospital by the Free Ambulance.

The First Division of the Court of Appeal will open sittings next year on March 12 and September 17, and the Second Division will open a sitting on June 18.

Sittings of the Supreme Court will open next year as follow': —Wellington, February 5; Palmerston North, February 6; Napier, February 12; New Plymouth, February 12; Wanganui, February 19; Gisborne, February 20; Nelson, March 20; Blenheim, March 13.

Since its formation in April last, the New Zealand Insurance Institute has shown a membership increase of from 94 to 494, comprising 254 officers of life companies and 240 officers of fire, accident and marine companies, said the president, Mr. H. P. Hopkins, in the course of his report at the annual meeting of the institute last night.

An Opier-in-Council in. the current Gazette consents to the raising of a loan by the Wellington City Council of £22,550, to be known as the Northland and Wadestown renewal loan, 1934; £35,700 as the Hutt Road construction renewal loan, 1934; and £25,000 by the Wellington Hospital Board as a redemption loan, 1933.

Extensive alterations are being made to St, Francis -Hall, in Hill Street. Hitherto the hall has been without platform or stage. In order to provide for a stage, an addition in brick lias been made at the northern end of the building, which Is wide and deep enough to provide for ‘a fairly large stage, with a dressing room on each side. < This annexe lias a door opening on to Guildford Terrace. Alterations are also being made to the supper room and kitchen, below the level of the main hall at the Hill Street end of the building. As a finishing touch to the general refurbishing of the Hill Street Basilica, the exterior red brick work is being given a coat of tungspar.

“Tlie very creditable total of 95 entries was received for the 1933 examinations of the Incorporated Australian Insurance Institute, which'w ( ere held early in October, and your general committee was able to conduct an excellent course of coaching, for the candidates,” said the president, Mr. H. P. Hopkins, at tlie annual meeting of the New Zealand . Insurance Institute held last night. “We are deeply Indebted to tho gentlemen who thus gave’ their services without fee. With the facilities available, we look to a marked increase in tlie number of entries for next year, particularly, in the fire, accident and marine sections.” Tlie total number of papers examined was divided as follows: Victoria 944. New South Wales 839. New Zealand 277, ■West Australia 228. South Australia 221, Tasmania 37, othdrs 49.