NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 138, 13 June 1942, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

"My Kingdom for an Egg!" A store in the city obtained a quantity of eggs yesterday. The good news quickly spread, and a queue of wouldbe egg-buyers was soon in evidence. Within a couple of hours hundreds of eggs changed hands at 3s 8d or 3s 4d a dozen, and it was not long before the supply was exhausted. There were both men and women in the queue, which at one time was nearly a hundred yards long, and many were disappointed after a long wait when a "No eggs left" sign was put up. Paddy the Wanderer's Memorial. Inquiries have been made why the memorial to Paddy the Wanderer, the dog known to thousands of Wellington people, and to everybody working on the waterfront, who died in 1939, has not been erected by the Harbour Board on Paddy's daily parade. The money for the memorial was entrusted to Major P. E. Brandon, and is being held, il was agreed, at the request of the late Mr. A. G. Barnett, secretary of the board, that the board should design and erect the memorial. The sculptor chosen for the plaque was the late Mr. J. E. Ellis, and tjie memorial was to have been erected over a drinking fountain near the entrance to the Queen's Wharf. Mr. Ellis's long illness delayed matters, until the work was handed over to Mr. Alexander Fraser last year. The result is much admired by those who knew Paddy. Mr. W. A. J. Dutch undertook to supply a bronze casting of it, as well as a stainless steel drinking bowl for the memorial, and the stonework has been cut ready for erection. There the matter rests, as it has been reluctantly deemed inadvisable to proceed with the installation of the memorial while there is the present shortage of essential labour. Fat Sheep Killed by Train. Shortly after a mob of more than 500 fat sheep were released from the Addington saleyards on Thursday on to the road leading to the railway line running past the yards, a train travelling from North Canterbury to Christchurch ploughed into the leading section of the mob, and before it was possible to stop the train, 15 of the number, half of them lam. s. were killed outright, and others were injured, states the "Press." The sheep had been purchased and had been taken delivery of by the Islington freezing works. The 'value of the sheep killed was estimated at between £20 and £23. The number injured was comparatively small- !