BE CAREFUL!

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 12, 15 January 1909, Page 8

BE CAREFUL!

TEAM ACCIDENTS. The proper way to get off a tramcar is to wait until it &tops, but if any one desires to get off while the car is in motion, care should be taken to alight with one's face in the direction that the car is moving. Most people know this, but the recurrence of mishaps due to failure to practice it is by no means uncommon. Yesterday, for instance, there were two accidents 'of this nature. It was an unfortunate day for the tramways in regard to accidents, for at least four were recorded, whereas the whole of the holiday week from Christmas time to New Year — with its heavy traffic — passed by without serious mishap. At a little after 8 p.m. yesterday, while a tramcar was being stopped near Tory-street in response to a signal, an elderly lady named Mrs. Rowntree stepped from the car too soon. She fell heavily on the wood blocks, and the attendance, of a doctor was needed. He found she was suffering from a cut on the temple and a slight concussion of the brain. "During the : afternoon a Miss Sweet, of Island Bay, was thrown down through getting off a moving car, but the resvlting injuries were not of a serious nature. Another providential escape befell a Mrs. O'Connor in the vicinity of Ellicestreefc. The inotorman on a tramcar which was travelling some little distance behind another one, saw two ladies crossing the plantation near Cambridgeterrace. He sounded his gong, but they took no notice of the warning, and he had only time to apply his fir.st emergency brake when the ladies stepped off the footpath in front of the car. One of them stepped back quickly, but the other (Mrs. O'Connor) fell right in front of tho car. The motorman raised her, and enquired if she was hurt. She said she was not. In answer to further questions; Mrs. O'Connor said she thought the gong was being rung on the car ahead of her, and that she had not seen the second car. A conductor named Gates was picked up in an unconscious state at the carshed in Newtown last night. He was found to be suffering from a cut on the back of the head, and to have a slight concussion of the brain. It is surmised that he slipped and fell while altering the destination boards on the side of a tramcar. Five grants have been authorised for school teachers' residences. The districts with their specified amounts are as follow : — Rikiorangi, £410 ; ' Waikanau, ,£400 ; Muhonoa East, £410 ; Tokomaru, 'v£425; and HastwcU, £410. D' Battery's camp at Lower Hutt stood = well the test of last night's gale. At 7 odd times the gunners had to turn out, tin emergency garb, to fix up pegs and ropes, but beyond this, and a lew drips ,ot lain through the canvas, there was 'not much to complain about. After a successful tour through New Zealand, "The Kilties" will open a return season in Wellington on the Bth February. The baud has been repeating in all parts of the Dominion the triumph it gained during its short sojourn in this city. Bookings arc complete up to the 18lh March, when the 'band will sail for Tasmania. A return visit to Melbourne will be paid, and then the Kilties will travel to Western Australia. After a tour of India the band proposes to open a return visit at the Crystal Palace on the Ist January, 1910. The touring manager, Mr. Howard • Eclie, who has just arrived from tho West Coast of the South Island, expresses great .vitisfaction with the results of tho tour through this country. Notice is given in our advertising columns that the Zcalandia Rifles go into camp at Trenlham ior a short time in order to complete the field firing under service conditions, and to enable those" 1 members who have not completed class firing to do so. Full arrangements have been made for the proper housing of tho men, and oven if the weather should prove inclement (lie conditions of i the camp will he lomto) l.ible. To-morrow afternoon, from 1.30 to 6 o'clock, it is intended to throw open to inspection H.M.S. Cambrian, at present lying at the King's wharf. The vessel will be tlospcl to the public on .Sunday. A moPliiiK of members of (he Athletic Football L'lub « ill be held to-morrow evening 1 . The name of the borough of Eastbrook lias been changed to Wanganui East. Me6ir«. R. Hannah and Co. advertise I Attractive styles in men's tan ihoet.

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