NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 104, 27 January 1943, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF

Flag Day Tomorrow

'Tomorrow, by permission of the city council, it street collection will be held in XVellington and. suburbs, in aid of the general funds of the British Sailors' Society and the XVellington Navy League. This is a joint collection held at intervals of two or three years to help these two societies, which are doing so .much for the seafarers of the Royal Navy, Allied Navies and the Merchant Navy. Trespassers on Wharf. For entering upon a XVellington wharf without permits on January 13 last, Colin Thomas Gladwin, ship's engineer, and Ronald Farrjt Ainge, tunneller, were each fined £5 by Mr. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, XVellington, yesterday. Woman’s Tragic Death. Found at her home with a wound m the throat and the arteries of her arms and legs severed, Mrs. Margaret Mary Rose, aged 30, residing in Fitzgerald Street. Christchurch, died on the way to hospital. Mrs. Rose was found by a neighbour.—P.A. Fine for Assault.

Albert Leonard Jackson, . salesman, aged 53, was fined £5 by Mr. Stout. S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court. XVellington, yesterday on a charge of having assaulted William Henry Cowley at a house in Elizabeth Street on January 25 last. Ou a charge of drunkenness, he was convicted mid discharged.

High School Headmistress. Subject to the approval of the Director of Education, Miss A. R. Allum, AI.A., Dip. Ed., Auckland, is to be principal ol the New Plymouth Girls’ High School as successor to Miss D. N. Allan, who has resigned after occupying the position for 17 years. Miss Allum is a daughter of the mayor of Auckland. Air. J. A. C. Allum. —P.A. Children Start Fire.

Machines from the central, XVellington South, and Aliramar stations attended a call yesterday afternoon to 47a Coutts Street, Kilbirnie, where a washhouse, at the rear of the premises was burning. The washhouse and contents were very badly damaged, and a line of hose was necessary to extinguish the blaze. The fire is believed to have been caused by children playing with matches.

Kongotai Old Boys. News of two former students of Rongotai College has been received by the XVellington Colleges Board of Governors. 11. A. Colquhoiin has graduated from Duntroon Alilitary College in the artillery section with 91. per cent., coming top of the class. E. B. Algar has been granted a Bishop Hadfield Exhibition tenable for three years at Christ College to study for the Church. Pictures for Forces.

Hollywood film studios are contributing to'the wellbeing of American servicemen overseas by making 1G millimetre copies of new films for showing at the various camps. The distribution is handled bv the American Red Cross, and a number of New Zealand units also have benefited from the prompt dispatch of the films by air mail. In some cases, the Americans will see films which will take months to reach the ordinary theatres. An “Old Soldier.” The 2nd N.Z.E.F. was represented at the A.I.F. Association Australia Day luncheon in AX’ellington yesterday by Corporal Fred Ness, who has served in Greece and Crete, in Syria, and in the Western Desert. Corporal Ness, the president of the association, Air. Richards. stated in his welcome, was a member of the original A.1.F., and bad altered his age somewhat to get into this war. Mr. Richards stated he believed that Corporal Ness was 58 years old in actuality. The Pick of the Bunch. “I have seen a good deal of the New Zealand soldiers. They are first-class troops; enterprising, fearless, resourceful. 1 consider them the pick of the bunch, all nations included.” This is an extract from a letter written by a captain in the Indian Army, a Alilitary Cross holder, who is fighting in North Africa. He wrote to his mother in England, who in turn conveyed the extract to her brother, Air. E. F. Black, Christchurch. Stone Adze Found. A -Maori stone adze in practically perfect condition was found recently by Alt. A’. G. R. Hamilton when working on his Te Aroha farm. The adze is 101 inches long and 2j at the base, aud is believed to be the type of tool used in canoebuilding. Previous discoveries of a similar nature indicate that part of this propertv was at one time the site of a Maori redoubt, and the finding of this adze gives room for further interesting speculation on the Alaori history of the district.

Sinouldei'ing Sacks. Included in the stock at a store Ju DyHeJfou destroyed by lhe disastrous fire on Christmas Eve were *.160,000 sacks purchased by tlie XX’heat Committee. Tbe sacks* .smouldered for many days and tlie Government, at lhe request of the lx.l’.S). authorities at. Lyttelton, removed, tlie sacks to a vacant .'•ection nt Officers i’oinl. Several times lust week tlie Lyttelton tire brigade was called upon to deal witli these sacks, which have continued to smoulder. A stack of wheat removed from tlie same store has also continued to bur".