ACCIDENT AT THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4901, 1 August 1877, Page 2

ACCIDENT AT THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

A pltil attending the Auckland Grammar School met with rather a bad accident yesterday afternoon, whereby liis arm was broken just below the elbow. It seems that the sufferer, Edgar Monk, sou of Mr. Monk, manager of the Union Sash and Door Company, who is at present absent from town, was amusiug himself on the gymnastic poles which are placed there for the pupils to exercise on, and his hold slipping, he fell with considerable violence on the ground, pitching on his forearm, aud breaking it at the spot mentioned. His school fellows took him to Dr. Stockwell, who, on ascertaining that Dr. Philsou was the medical attendant of Mr. Monk's family, immediately drove him to the liospital in his own buggy, where his hurts were attended to, and at the same time sent down for a cab to take the lad to hia parents' house at Mount Albert. While ou this subject we may mcDtion that some meaus ought to be taken, either by fencing, or drawing the attention of the police to the fact, to put a atop to the disgraceful scenes which aro allowed to go on at this gymnasium on Sundays. The apparatus erected for the scholars of the school is not fenced in, and it seems that numbers of boys aud young men are in the habit of congregating on and around the place regnlarly every •Sunday, using most disgusting aud profane language, and making themselves a general nuisance to every passer-by. The attention of the police should be directed to this.

BOROUGH OF ONKHUNGA. Tun: ordinary meeting of the Council was held on Monday evening. Present : The Mayor, Councillors Blakey, Bycroft, Codliu, Earle, Hastie, Mclntyre, Neilson, and Waller. Copies of telegrams sent were read urging a slight deviation in the Railway Wharf, the erection of which has been commenced. Tho plan accepted places the new wharf only 12 feet from the old one. Thiß would render useless fully one-third of the berthage accommodation of the old wharf. The alteration required of 50 feot, instead of 12, would not add to the cost very much, and the contract has been taken for about i 5000 less than the appropriation.—A letter w.vs read from the Registrar-General, declining to appoint a Ilegistiar of iiirths and Deaths for this district. — With reference to the proposed Slaughter-house Bill, strong objections were made by tho Mayor anil several Councillors to the proposed restrictions with reference to slaughter houses in all boroughs. A letter to Mr. O'Korke on tho subject, which hail been sent by the Mayor, was read, and approved. Sundry routine nutters wore discussed, and various accounts passed. The state of the bank account was ordered to be laid on tho table