NEWS BREVITIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 155, 21 September 1927, Page 1

NEWS BREVITIES

i ■- - - . Death At Hamilton.—Ti e death oc- ; curred. at Eureka tfete morning of airs. ■ Ellen Cl&rkin, wife of John Clarkin, 1 well-known in farming and contracting t circles in the Waikato and on the goldfields. Deceased is survived by her husband, four sons and two daughters. Excursion Tickets for Races. —Particulars of the issue of holiday excursion tickets and train arrangements in connection with the Avondale race meeting at Ellerslie on September 24 and 26 are advertised in this issue. Injured Man Improving.—The condition of Mr. G. H. Wilson, of 3 Gardiner Terrace, who was injured through falling from a second-storey window on Sunday, was reported this morning to be improving, and is no longer regarded as critical. Domain Shelters.—The Hospital Board decided yesterday to call tenders for the erection of shelters for tubercular patients on the new Domain site. It is proposed to erect four shelters, each accommodating four men. and costing between £259 and .€3OO. Training College Grant.—The current grant lor incidental expenses of the I Auckland Training College is £BOO. and the Education Department considers that oat of this a reasonable amount should go to the library. Architect for Hospital Board.— Twenty-six application for the position of architect have been received by the Hospital Board. The number will be reduced to six by the Finance Committee. and the final selection will he made at a special meeting of the board on October 4. Free Stationery for Schools.—Replying to an application from the Auckland Ed ucation Board for free stationery, in iddition to free class-books, for necessitous children, the Department has advised that there was no fund from which the payment might be made. The board’s executive is to see what it can do for the children. Surprise From Avondale Tap.—At least one Avondale resident. grown blase, since filtration supplied Auckland v; ith an irreproachable supply of water, received a rude shock yesterday when his bath tap produced a muddylooking fluid which, when drained from the bath, left him a prospective seedling bed. The complaint seems to h-tve been isolated, and the only explanation offered by the authorities is that a main must have been disturbed, probably by a workman.