NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 47, 19 November 1936, Page 13

NEWS IN BRIEF

The Gospel Ship Still campaigning for funds to rebuild the gospel ship which was destroyed by fire shortly after it was finished in Auckland, Mr. Lawrence Beavis, who last year pulled a wheelbarrow from Auckland to Wellington, is now on the road with a model of the Israel. The novel land craft has been pulled through the Waikato and Bay of Plenty districts and is now on the way to Gisborne. Mr. Beavis intends to continue through Hawke’s Bay and Wairarapa to 'Wellington. Kairanga Unable to Dock. Owing to the strong, gusty northerly yesterday, the Union Company s cargo Steamer Kairanga was unable to go on the Wellington floating dock for cleaning and painting. She is now expected to dock this morning. Light and Air. Advantage is being taken of the clearance of the new Central Library site in Mercer Street to provide more light and air for those offices of the city engineer’s department at the western end of the building. The brick wall is being pierced for the insertion of windows.

A Modern Cat House. Cats housed at the veterinary hospital of the Auckland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at New Lynn, will shortly be enjoying the comforts of a modern cat house, which is to be provided with sun runs. The building of this new house has been made possible by the gift of anonymous donors of the sum of £5O in memory of their cat “Tuesday.”

Tasman Flyer Finds His Goggles. Mr. L. E. Clark, the young North Canterbury airman, has found the high-ly-prized goggles which he lost on landing at Wigram on Sunday evening, after completing his flight from Sydney. He surmises that they must have failen from his machine as he left it, for they were picked up by someone in the crowd which had assembled to welcome him and returned to him on Tuesday. “The Girl in Red.”

Having concluded a comprehensive tour of the South Island and Stewart Island, Miss Nita Rosslyn, the “Girl in Red,” will arrive in 'Wellington from Lyttelton this morning. Miss Rosslyn, who rides from place to place on a red bicycle and dressed in red, has travelled 50,000 miles in various countries, earning her way by singing and lecturing on her travels. She is about to undertake the final stage of her North Island tour.

Making “Sissies” of Firemen. A novel objection to the introduction of gas masks as standard equipment for firemen in Christchurch was raised by Superintendent C. C. Warner at. a meeting of the Christchurch Fire Board. Superintendent "Warner said that he had been 25 years in charge at Christchurch, and he did not think the smoke in future would be any worse than in the past, when they had found they could get along quite well without masks. To use them now, he said, would make the men a “lot of sissies.” The board did not take the objection seriously, and when the discussion continued ajiperintendent Warner said he hoped that they would give him a photograph of the men the first time they were used, “just as a souvenir.”