Empire Games Flag Handed To Committee

Northern Advocate, 27 October 1949, Page 2

Empire Games Flag Handed To Committee

NEWS IN BRIEF

Yesterday, the Empire Games flag, brought from South Africa by the All Blacks captain, F. R. Allen, was handed over to the organising committee for the Games in Auckland at a meeting of the directors of Empire Games (New Zealand), Ltd. The flag was accepted on behalf of the committee by its chairman (Mr R. Moore).

In presenting the flag to the committee, Allen said that it was given to him at an athletic meeting held in South Africa. “I feel sure,” he said, “that South Africa will send a good team, and I know that many of their best athletes are now training to take part.”

When a cricket ball sailed over the fence of the Basin Reserve, Wellington, during a practice last evening, Mr I. Ferguson, a salesman, of Adelaide Road, who was in a telephone booth outside the reserve, was struck on the head when the ball crashed through the window. An ambulance driver, who was taking a patient to the Wellington Public Hospital, saw Mr Ferguson staggering across the street and took him to hospital, where his head wound was stitched.

The possibility of setting up a clinic to test applicants for positions as commercial drivers will be reviewed by (he Road Safety Council 12 months hence. The council was told yesterday that the Railways Road Services favoured such a scheme, but it would be difficult to operate in the North Island with the present labour shortage, and would not be practicable to operate hr the South Island alone.

The opinion that civil servants should be eligible to serve on juries was expressed by members of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce. The chamber received a letter from the Minister of Justice (Mr Mason), stating that the of permitting civil servants to serve on juries was receiving consideration.

A body, which the police are satisfied is that of Dorsett William Bertie, who disappeared into the bush near the Akatarawa sawmill on September 9 when he was about to be questioned by the police, was found in the Akatarawa Ranges yesterday. There was a bullet wound in the forehead and a pea-rifle was lying beside the body. Bertie, who was aged 31. was on bail on a theft charge, which was to have been heard on September 12. When police approached his bach at Akatarawa he made off to the bush, taking a rifle with him.

A chase in which Traffic-Officer H. I Meilsop, of the Auckland City traffic j department, followed a motor-cyclist | for nine miles at a high speed, had a I sequel yesterday when Harold Clark j Stacey, 30. was fined £7O by Messrs T. Kelly and L. S. Rickerby, J.P.s, in Auckland. Stacey pleaded guilty to charges of reckless driving, driving when his licence had been cancelled, failing to stop for a traffic officer's siren, failing to give information, and causing undue noise.

Sixteen municipalities favour compulsory tail-lights for bicycles and six oppose it. This was reported to the Road Safety Council yesterday. All four main cities favour the proposal. Eleven municipalities favour and 11 oppose retaining the compulsory warning bell on cycles. The council voted to retain the bell. It had declared itself in favour of compulsory taillights at a previous meeting.

An' Auckland sports goods firm, F. Wiseman, Ltd., has bought a building in Willis Street, Wellington, for £25,500. The vendor was the estate of Margaret Butler. The building, which is 70 years old, has a frontage of 60ft and a depth of 70ft. * * w * Settlement of the dispute between the Government and the Town Milk Producers’ Federation over compensation for condemned cows through tuberculosis inspection is to be urged by the Federation of Tuberculosis Associations, according to a decision reached yesterday.

A child, Neil Forrester, of 79 Nixon Street, Hamilton East, was admitted to the Waikato Hospital yesterday with poisoning, caused by nicotine sulphate. His condition is described as satisfactory.