IN TOWN AND OUT

Southland Times, Issue 21658, 21 March 1932, Page 6

IN TOWN AND OUT

NEWS OF THE DAY. Pedestrian Knocked Down. While walking along the North road yesterday morning, Ed,ward Kelly, aged 48, of Waikiwi, was knocked down by a motor car driven by Mr William Mitchell, of Invercargill. He was admitted to the Southland Hospital suffering from minor abrasions, chest injuries and shock. Y’esterday his condition was reported as satisfactory. « * * • Week-end Anniversaries. Several important anniversaries fell during- the week-end. On March 19, 1858, Lucknow was relieved by General Sir Colin Campbell; in 1869 the first gold was found in Tasmania; in 1896 the Brunner mine disaster occurred, 67 men, being entombed. On March 20, 1727, Sir Isaac Newton died; in 1866 the road between Christchurch and the Wert .Coast was opened; in 1828 Ibsen was born; in 1871 the first sod in the Clutha railway was turned, and in 1929 occurred the big flood in Dunedin, several families in North Dunedin being forced to leave their homes.

Extra Half-hour’s Work. While almost everyone retired to bed on Saturday night with the comforting realization that an extra half-hour’s sleep was to be enjoyed—an important matter in this busy age—there were probably very few who realized that the police constables on the beat, exchange operators on duty and all others operating the public services would be required to work half an hour longer. For the period during which the hands of the clock remained stationary at two o’clock all sorts of complications might have occurred in official records. The Fire Brigade might have received a call at two o’clock, sallied forth to extinguish an outbreak, and returned to the station at the same time at which it went out. Beyond this the imagination will not go, but it is probable that documents will reveal to posterity the disturbances caused in officialdom by the alteration in the time.

Presentation to the Chief. In order to mark the occasion of his presence at, and his conducting of, the monthly meeting of the Dunedin Scottish Society at Dunedin on Saturday evening, Mr J. L. McG. Watson, of Invercargill, the Chief of the local St. Andrew’s Society, was presented with a walking stick. In inviting Mr Watson to accept the gift, Mr George Munro, the president of the Dunedin body, congratulated the Chief on his lengthy career in that honoured office and paitl a warm tribute to the interest he had always taken in matters perUtining to Scotland.’ The walking stick, which is beautifully inlaid with eight different kinds of wood, was made by Mr Steele, a member of the Dunedin Society, and it now forms a very welcome addition to the large collection of sticks which always attract the keenest interest on the part of visitors to the Chief’s study.