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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 17, 21 July 1919, Page 8

Handrails on steps are always an attraction to children, who do not see the possible danger from sliding down them, but people living in the vicinity of tho Oriental Bay Band Rotunda would do well not to allow their children to play on the steps leading to the beach from that building. On Saturday afternoon a little girl named Violet Clark, living at 72, Clyde-quay, was playing on tho handrails with several older children, and while sliding down was knocked off and broke her arm below the elbow. She was attended to and is progressing well. j The matter of the probable hardship to soldioi's building, or arranging to build, by the Railway Department's decision j not to carry timber, was referred to at a meeting of the Canterbury Repatriation Board last week. The chairman (Mr. A. W. Jamieson) said that after a chat with the secretary of the Repatriation Board in Wellington he* was able to say that in extreme cases tho local board might use its own discretion. So, if a man should be found suffering under those conditions, the board would nao t-hflt ha £«'» Witt nßßisasury tiurwpoi't i fur the timber.