News in Brief

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 234, 2 October 1931, Page 6

News in Brief

Fund for Art Gallery. “ We have not given up hope of acquiring a building of our own but the time is not yet opportune to act,” said Dr E. B. Gunson, president of the Auckland Society of Arts, at the annual meeting. He expressed the opinion that in view of the present economic position the society was particularly fortunate in not being encumbered with a heavy liabilitj'-, such as would result from the acquisition of a large building. The outlook for the future was bright, however, and during the past three years approximately £IOOO had been paid into the property fund, which now stood at £10,059. Three All Blacks. Speaking at the anniversary celebrations of the South Wellington School this week, Mr W. J. M’Keon said that the school was well represented in the world of sport. Three All Blacks were ex-pupils of the school—Jim Tillyard, Frank Mitchinson, who captained an All Black team which visited California, and Cliff Porter, perhaps the best known of them all. Many other sound Rugby players had also received their early education at the school. Harry Wilson, athlete and champion hurdler, whose performances were a feature of postwar sports meetings, was also an ex-pupil. Russia’s Five-Year Plan. With the object of discovering how far the Russian Five-Year Plan has affected trade in the British Empire, the Russian Trade Committee of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce has asked for information from chambers of commerce in the main cities of the Empire, including London and Glasgow. The committee has already gathered and classified a considerable amount of data about Russian trade and the foreign trade policy of the U.S.S.R. Inquiries are now being made from reliable sources regarding the importation of Russian goods into New Zealand. Friends or Enemies? How too much attention paid to the lady who subsequently became his wife led a young doctor into a Court action as the defendant, with his fiancee as plaintiff, was shown by Mr L. M. Moss, when illustrating an address on “ Marriage and its Unforeseen Consequence,” given before a Taranaki Justices of the Peace Association meeting last week. The doctor took his fair one for a ride in his car along a dark and unlit road. Here, the doctor dimmed his lights, and, though keeping to the correct side of the road, ran into a cart. The lady was hurt, and sued her lover for damages. Describing the accident, the judge noted that “ they were in the glamour of that period which precedes the romantic severity of a formal engagement.” A legal conundrum arose when the parties married before the case was heard. The plaintiff and defendant were living happily together on friendly terms as man and wife, and yet parties on opposite sides to an action claiming damages, because the husband, when courting his wife, was paying more atten+r> h»>r than to his drivinff.