CITY AND SUBURBAN

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 69, 14 December 1933, Page 11

CITY AND SUBURBAN

Happenings About the Town INCIDENTS, OBSERVATIONS A decision to open the Ngatiawa stream, a tributary of the Waikanae River, for fly trout fishing was arrived at last night by the council of . the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. The Smith Family Joy-Spreaders’ Christmas cheer fund now stands at £146/8/-. Additional contributions received include £1 from A.W.8., and £1 from Mrs. C. C. Holmes (Dunedin). Out of respect to the late Mr. James Pullar, general manager at Melbourne of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, a Union Jack was flown at half-mast over the society’s offices yesterday. Falling from a scaffold at a house in Bolton Street yesterday morning, Mr. A. Kelly, painter, 31 Vivian Street, received injuries to his right shoulder and a wound on his scalp. The Free Ambulance conveyed him to hospital.. The council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society accepted an offer for the destruction of shags and their nests in the Waiohine Gorge at a meeting last night. It was guaranteed to kill 20 shags at 1/6 each, and all over at the rate of 1/3 each. Knocked down by a motor-car at the corner of Willis Street and Vivian Street yesterday afternoon, Shirley Montgomery, 7 Stepney Place, aged 7, received injuries to her head and also suffered from shock. She was taken to hospital by the Free Ambulance. The Commercial Travellers’ Club’s Christmas art union is to be drawn at the club-house at 5 p.m. to-morrow. Arrangements in connection with the annual distribution of cheques to the various children’s homes in Wellington will not be completed until after the art union is drawn. Severe scalds to her right shoulder and arm were received by Amy Puketapu, White’s Line East, aged 4, when she upset a saucepan of boiling peas, at about 5 p.m. yesterday. After receiving attention from Dr. Harding, she was taken to hospital by the Free Ambulance. Although a start is to be made with the demolition of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society building at the corner of Customhouse Quay and Willeston Street within a few days, the major part of the work will not be undertaken until after the New Year holidays, as there are certain tenants ■who would be incommoded by having to find new premises before the holidays. For the conduct of the business of the Colonial Mutual Society during the time occupied by the erection of the new building a floor and a half of the new Featherston Chambers, in Featherston Street, have been leased for the coming year.'