,NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 2, 3 January 1936, Page 6

,NEWS OF THE DAY

Christcliurcli Artist's Success.

News has been received by Me. Cecil F. Kelly, the Christ-church artist, that a picture of his has been accepted by the committee for the annual exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists, slates "The Press." The work is a large landscape, the subject being Lake Wanaka. The Royal Society of British Artists, of which Bertram Nicholls is president, is limited to a" membership of 200; but the work of non-members is accepted for exhibition. Curious Accident. An acqident, dependent on a coincidence of circumstances that would not happen in a thousand times, occurred on the south road not many miles from Dunedin recently. A motor-cyclist, going from the city, was passed by a lorry loaded with coal and coming from the other direction. At the moment of passing a shovel, renting on the coal, slipped from its place and dropped, blade first, on the motor-cyclist's right hand gripping the handlebar, cutting three parts of the way through his middle finger just above the nail. The lorry driver drove on, not knowing that he had lost his shovel. The motor-cyclist had his injured finger dressed at the nearest town. Hamilton Lake Rescue. Prompt action by a young man, Mi\ James Everest, of King Street, Frankton, averted a possible tragedy at the Hamilton Lake on Monday afternoon, states a Hamilton correspondent. A young girl, a resident of Auckland who was visiting Hamilton, was swimming between the jetty and a raft moored about 50 yards from the shore, when she was heard to cry for help. ,She disappeared from sight and Mr. Everest, who was swimming in the vicinity, quickly went to her assistance. By the time he reached her she was thoroughly exhausted, but he was able to swim with her to the raft, where she rested until a boat was secured. On reaching the shore she soon recovered. ' Loss of Sight of Eye. An injury resulting in the loss of the sight of his right eye was suffered by Mr. F. L. J. West, a well-known Auckland barrister ,on Tuesday, while on a camping - holiday, states the "New Zealand Herald." Mr. West, who resides at 22 Clonbern Hoad, Remuera, was camping with friends at the motor camp at Long Bay when he tripped over a guy rope and fell, his eye striking a tent peg driven in the ground. A doctor was immediately called and it was. found necessary to summon a St. John Ambulance from Devonport to convey Mr. West'to a private hospital. New Mountain Hut. ° The interesting ceremony of laying a foundation-stone of a new hut 6000 ft up Mount Ruapehu was performed on Tuesday by Mrs. Tom Mitchell, wife of the well-known Australian ski expert who is laid up with an injured knee (states the "Auckland Star"). The hut, which is being built by the Ruapehu Ski Club, will be 35ft by. 25ft, with a solid concrete foundation 18in deep and one foot wide. The building will consist of a big living-room, a ladies' room, and a clearing room. It will have a magnificent outlook over Ngauruhoe, Tongariro, Lake Taupo, and the plains below. Webb Bros., of Raetihi, hauled the material up the mountain with a tractor, and a number of Wanganui ski enthusiasts are spending the holidays assisting in building the hut. '' ' ' '■ . ■