DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS

ay TKLEGBAPn —CHESS ABSN , COPYRIGHT. £710.000 FOR STREET IMPROVEMENTS. AUCKLAND. December 18. A proposal to raise “710.009 lor street improvement works in tbe city, was carried by 1072 against 808. YOUNG GIRL DROWNED. AUCKLAND, Dee. IS. Grace Dbyllis Barron, aged 5 years and 8 months, daughter of Mr .T. T. Barron, sawmill worker, fell from the uharf at Mercer and was drowned. The body was reenroll'd, but efforts to restore life failed. FATAL COLLISION. CHRISTCHURCH Dee. IS. Gertrude Rudd, a married woman, of Sprcydnii. died in the hospital as a result of hetig thrown from a. bicycle in a collision with a milk-curt driven by a fifteen year old girl. OBITUARY. CIIRLSTOIIUR.CH Dee. IS. Obituary—David Rodpath, aged 43, a prominent Christchurch business man and sportsman. Mr -Rodpath was for “.ur.o time President of the Canterbury Cricket Association and a member of tbe management Committee of tbe New Zealand Cricket Association PICTURES AND DANCING’ CHRISTCHURCH. Doe. 13. Too miieli dancing and tbe wrong class of moving pictures are having an undesirable effect on Hie scholars, said Mr A. K. Anderson, principal of St. Andrew’s College at the break-up. yesterday. Ho advocated dancing for young people only two or three times a year as they used to. Another necessity was the limitation of pocket money.