IN TOWN AND OUT

Southland Times, Issue 21652, 14 March 1932, Page 4

IN TOWN AND OUT

NEWS OF THE DAY. Theft from Safe. The theft of the sum of £lO from a safe at Mr R. C. Symon’s Crescent Bakery in Dee street was reported to the police last evening. It is understood that the thief gained access to the keys and committed the offence over the week-end. * * _ * A Good Catch. Three anglers fishing in the Waiau between Tc Anau and Manapouri on Saturday secured fifteen good fish. Seven were Atlantic salmon, the heaviest weighing 51bs, six were rainbow trout weighing up to lOlbs and two were brown trout. The large proportion of rainbow trout in the bag is rather remarkable. * ♦ ♦ • Cyclist Injured. As the result of being knocked down by a motorist shortly before nine o’clock last evening a yomh named Gordon Oliver, aged 17 years, a resident of McQuarrie street, was admitted to the Southland Hospital suffering from a lacerated wound on the back of his head. The driver of the car was Mr David Dorence Stott, who was proceeding in a southerly direction between Biggar street and Dalrymple road. On noticing three cyclists, all youths, in front of him the motorist swerved to the left to avoid striking them. He was unsuccessful, the right hand mudguard striking the rear of the cyclo nearest to the left. The rider was flung on to the bonnet of the car, where he received the injury mentioned. Oliver was conveyed to hospital, where his condition was reported at a late hour to be satisfactory. * ♦ < < Child Scalded. An unfortunate accident which occurred at Clifton on Thursday last terminated fatally on Saturday morning with the death in a private hospital of Stanley Harold Eastlake, a child aged one year and eight months. The little boy while running in front of his father to the wash-house, accidentally struck with his head a bucket of boiling water which his mother had drawn from the copper. Part of the contents spilled over him, causing severe scalds on the back and shoulders. A doctor was summoned and the child removed to hospital, but so severe were the injuries as to cause death within approximately 40 hours of admission. The Coroner has been advised and an inquest will be held. ♦ ♦ * ♦ The Falling Dollar. That the rise in the British sterling, compared with the American dollar, was due to a great extent to the decline in lhe value of the dollar was an opinion advanced by a leading New Zealand economist to a member of the staff of the Christchurch Times. He said that the spectacular rise of sterling was due to the exchange rates operating between London and New York. Factors operating were an influx of foreign capital for investment in London and the probability that American investors, becoming apprehensive concerning the dollar’s stability, were withdrawing their money from America, thus causing a falling market. * ♦ « ♦ Insurance Against Rain. A form of insurance common in the South Island and in Australia was hailstorm insurance for crops, said Rotarian A. S. Clark in an address to the New Plymouth Rotary’ Club. Weather insurance was also common, particularly’ in connection with an agricultural show or carnival. In a recent case in Australia a carnival was insured for £l5OO against a stated amount of rain during a period of about three hours before 11 a.m. Slight rain fell, and when it was measured (reports the Taranaki Daily’ News), it just exceeded the stated amount. The sun shone at 11 a.m., and the “gates” did not suffer at all, but the insurance company’ paid just the same.