NEWS BREVITIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 135, 29 August 1927, Page 1

NEWS BREVITIES

Trout Fry Allotted. —The Auckland Acclimatisation Society has allotted 50,000 trout fry for liberation in the Te Awamutu district, and a similar number in the Otorohanga district. Missing Car Found. —A motor-car belonging to Mr. W. Lambourne, which was stolen from Three Lamps on Friday evening, was found undamaged yesterday morning in Kelmarnri Avenue, Herne Bay. Present to Schoolmaster. —Mr. J. S. Doull, headmaster of the Wabaroa School, has been transferred to a similar position at Kopu, Thames. He was presented with an illuminated address by the residents, who also gave Mrs Doull a handsome dinner set. Little Girl Injured. —A collision occurred yesterday between a motor-car travelling toward Wanganui and a service car on its way to Wellington. Mary Jackson, a girl of six, who was a passenger In the service car, received injuries necessitating her removal to the Wanganui Hospital. Her condition is serious. Bifl Residence Destroyed. —Essex House, a 20-roomed building at Hexton, near Gisborne, formerly the residence of Mr. Percival Barker, and until recently used as a boys’ school, was destroyed by fire last evening. It JJjL B insured for £2,500 in the State Office. No one was living in the premises.—Press Association. Picked Up U nconscious. —A motoraccident occurred in the city at Dunedin in the early hours of yesterday morning, a land agent named Paterson being picked up unconscious on the footpath at the corner of Crawford street and Anderson Bay Road. Mr. laterson’s motor-car which was In a wrecked condition, was found nearby. The injured man was still unconscious iast ni&ht.—Press Association. . Cyclists Collide With Woman. —During a cycling race at Wanganui on Saturday several riders who were riding m a bunch on River Bank Road, collided with a woman, Mrs. Walpole. w “° was knocked unconscious. She sustained numerous cuts and abrasions, a nd her condition is serious. One of the riders, Barnes, was badly cut about the face and was taken to hospital.— tress Association. New Mollusc Discovered.—What was regarded as a new species of mollusc, 'erconella ormesi, of very rare occurrence and recorded from only the one locality, was picked up by a trawler in tyom 50 to 60 fathoms of water off t' a Pe Campbell, Marlborough. The species was regarded as recent until the discovery, the other day. of a perfect tossilised specimen of the same species *n the pliocene beds at Sparrow Cliff. w anganui.