LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20650, 23 August 1930, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Wlnlc crossing the road at the inteiv section of Queen Street and Wellesley Street yesterday morning, Mrs. Evelyn Hears, aged 47, of 166, Hobson Street, was knocked down by a motor-car and received injuries to tlio head. Slio was removed by tlio St. John Ambulance to tlio Auckland Hospital. Her condition is not serious. The opening of (he school holidays and tlio Rugby match between Auckland and Wellington at Wellington to-day, were responsible for unusually large bookings on the two Main Trunk expresses that left Auckland last evening. Although an extra sleeper was put on the limited express and four extra carriages on the second, both trains were well filled. The limit of platform tickets was issued and dozens of applicants had to be refused. A large number of private cars also conveyed Rugby enthusiasts to Wellington to watch the game. Tlio disappearance of a schoolboy, Albert Mortimer Scott, aged 13, whoso parents reside at Point Chevalier, has been reported to tho police. The boy was last seen on the evening of Friday, August 15, after returning from school. He is 4ft. 6in. in height and is of medium build, with dark eyes and hair. After a week's cruise in the Hauraki Gulf with Royal Naval Reservists the training ship Wakakura returned to Auckland yesterday afternoon. She will leave port for tho Hauraki Gulf again to-day with anotffer batch of reservists.

"Most of tlieso unlicensed sets were found during the visit of the British football team, and I presume that many of tliein were only temporary arrangements," said the wireless inspector, in the Police Court yesterday, when .16 persons were fined for having unlicensed radio sets. The fines ranged from £1 and costs to £3 and costs.

Four vessels with passengers from overseas will reach New Zealand at the beginning of next week, two on Monday and two on Tuesday. Tho Royal Mail liner Aorangi will arrive at Auckland fiom Sydney on Monday morning and the Royal Mail liner Malcura is due at Wellington from San Francisco the same day. On Tuesday morning the Maunganui is due at Wellington from Sydney and the Shaw, Savill and Albion liner lonic has reported by wireless that sho will reach Auckland from London and Southampton in the afternoon. A cashbox containing £1 18s 6d was stolen from tho premises of Ur. F. J. Rayner, the American Dental Parlours. Upper Queen Street, on Thursday evening or early yesterday morning. The theft was discovered yesterday morning, when it wa% found that a glass panel in the door loading to the surgery had been smashed. No attempt was mado to open tho door of» Dr. Rayner's private office. The lych-gate erected at the principal entrance to All Saints' churchyard, llowick, to commemorate some 40 military settlers and other residents of the district who fought in the Maori War, has been completed and will bo dedicated on All Saints' Day, November 1. Tho gate, a handsome structure of jarrah, on a stone base, with a four-gabled roof, was designed by the Public Works Department, and half the cost will be defrayed by the Government. A brass tablet, bearing the names of the men, will be placed inside the gate.

Shipping at Auckland will not be very busy during the week-end. In addition to local coastal vessels the only steamers in port to-day will be the Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Corinthic, the New Zealand Shipping Company's Argyllshire, the Westport Coal Company's Canopus, and the Union Company's cargo steamers Waimarino and Kaimiro. The Corinthic arrived from Napier last evening and the Argyllshire will arrive from Tokomaru Bay at daybreak this morning. Both vessels have come to Auckland to complete loading and they are to be despatched for England on Wednesday, the Corinthic for Southampton and London and the Argyllshire for London, Avonmouth, Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow. Other large overseas vessels that will arrive next week will be the Kojal Mail liner Aorangi from Sydney on Monday. the Shaw Savill and Albion liner lonic from London and tho Federal Line steamer Somerset from Liverpool on Tuesday, tho American steamer Golden Cross from Los Angeles on Wednesday, the Armadalo from New York on Thursday and tho Penybryn from Cuba about Friday.

The Wbangarei division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade had a long and rough trip on Thursday night. Leaving Whangarei at 5.30 with tho ambulance, tho squad proceeded to Whananaki, where tho roads were so bad that tho ambulance was bogged. After several hours delay the vehicle was got on tho hard surface again. On tho return journey it was necessary to carry the patient over half a mile of the roughest part of the road and tho party arrived back at Wbangarei at 2 o'clock yesterday morning. Although there were some peoplo who thought it was an offence to indulge in liquor, tho fact remained that such was not the case, said Mr. Justice Adams in tho Supremo Court in Christchurch this week. "It is no offence to get drunk," ho added, "unless you are found in a public place." Commenting further on the question of whether or not a man had been drunk, the Judge concluded, "I liavo not yet discovered any generally accepted or comprehensive definition of the term 'drunk.' An amusing story comes from 4.110 country in the vicinity of Maerowhenua, North Otago. A tractiou engine owner had the misfortune to break tho differential when crossing a river, and ho had to return homo without his engine. Among improvements to his property ho was having a concrete wall erected, and he had authorised the builder to reinforce it with scrap metal lying in his yard. Meanwhile, a new differential costing about £ls, had boon ordered, and when he received . advice that it had been forwarded ho began to make inquiries as to where it had gone. Ho was greatly dismayed when he found that it had gone tlio way of the scrap metal and was embodied in the fine concrete wall. Luckily, the builder remembered where a piece of metal answering to tho description had boon deposited in the wall, and it was recovered after much hard toil,'undamaged. The engine is now itself again, and the wall, though £ls choaper, !■ an strong as ever.