CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 59, 2 December 1933, Page 9

CITY AND SUBURBAN

Happenings About the Town

INCIDENTS, OBSERVATIONS

A Youth Movement service will be held in St. Mary’s Anglican Church at Karori to-morrow evening. Archbishop Julius, Christchurch, will be the preacher.

The Hutt Cricket Club’s third grade team, which was due to meet Railways on Anderson Bark this afternoon, has been compelled to forfeit the match through being unable to get a team to travel into the city.

From to-morrow an extra Sunday tram will leave La nibton Station folMiramar at 10.26 a.m., and others will leave Miramar at 11-6 a.m. and 12.56 p.m. From Monday, the first tram from Seatonn will depart at 6.46 a.m. instead of 6.51.

A severe gash on tlie left arm was received by Mr. D. Higgins, butcher, Korokoro, yesterday afternoon, when his knife slipped. Mr. Higgins, who is employed by the Gear Meat Company’s works at Fetone, was attended by Dr. Harding, and taken to hospital by the Free Ambulance. •

On Sunday night, Decenilier 10, in the Trinity Methodist Church, there will be held a bowlers’ church parade under the auspices and in the presence of members of the Wellington Bowling Centre and tlie Newtown Club. The Rev. W. Bramwell Scott is a member of the Newtown Bowling Club and the minister of Trinity Church, which is situated opposite the Newtown School in Riddiford Street. Mr. Scott will be the preacher.

Several charges of Sunday trading against retail shop owners were beard in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Before fixing the penalty at the end of one of the cases, the magistrate, Mr. C. R. Orr-Walker, Timaru, asked if such offences were prevalent at present. “There will be another batch of possibly 10 defendants soon,” replied Senior-Sergeant Dempsey. “We want to draw attention to shops selling cigarettes on Sundays.”

The first of the two new engines recently delivered to the Wellington Fire Brigade is to be located at Northland, while th? Northland engine will go to replace an engine at tlie Tendon station, which has been converted into a salvage wagon. The newest engine will be retained at the Central Station. The brigade is now equipped with ten engines, three at the Central Statjon, two at Constable Street, and one each at Northland. Thorndon, Brooklyn, Miramar and Khandallah.

In the annual report of the New Zealand Aero Club, presented at the annual meeting yesterday, it is recognised that during the year Sir Francis Boys, ex-president of the club, left the Dominion to reside in England, and, as a slight recognition of his valued services as president during tlie first year of the club’s existence, the constituent clubs presented him with a piece of silver plate prior to his departure. Sir Francis Boys wrote to the president requesting him to convey to the clubs his sincere thanks for. this memento, with the assurance that it would be treasured by him as a continual reminder of his association with the club.