NEWS BREVITIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 180, 20 October 1927, Page 11

NEWS BREVITIES

Rockery Plants. —The City Council superintendent of parks has presented Devonport Borough Council with a collection of rockery plants.

Claim on Miners’ Union. —The claim made by the Pukemiro Collieries Company against the Pukemiro Miners’ Union for £2OO has been adjourned to October 31 at Hamilton.

Theft of Sleepers. —For the theft of railway sleepers at Glenafton, James McLennan and Frederick George Delloway were each fined 40s and costs 5s at Huntly to-day.

Tar Path on Fire. —While Mr. A. Shepherd, of New North Road. Mount Albert, was tarring his path shortly after noon to-day, the tar caught fire. The blaze was extinguished before the Mount Albert brigade arrived on the scene.

Mount Victoria Magazine. Th« magazine on Mount Victoria is to l*e evacuated this week. The laboratory is to be used until the end of the year. The Devonport Boy Scouts are desirous of obtaining the use of the laboratory building for headquarters.

Accident on Rangitoto. —Mrs. J. i\. Whiteman, wife of one of the workmen on the Harbour Board’s quarry . t Rangitoto, fractured her ankle through slipping yesterday afternoon. She was brought to Auckland by launch and taken to hospital by the St. John Ambulance.

New Building Society Group. —At the October meeting of the Auckland Co-operative Terminating Building Society, to be held in St. James’s Hall, Wellington Street, on Thursday next, at 7.30 p.m.. £11,600 is to be distributed by ballot and sale. Shares must be made financial by next Tuesday. The 66th group, which has just been opened, contains only a few shares which have not yet been allotted.

Movements of Warships. —The cruisers Dunedin and Diomede arrived ;.t Wellington at 6.30 a.m. to-day. The'will remain until November 23, and members of the ships’ companies will undergo camp and musketry instruction at Trentham. H.M.S. Veronica, which was scheduled to reach Auckland next Monday, is being detained at Fiji awaiting orders. When th warship returns to Auckland she will dock and refit.

Doubtful Popularity. —“l left town < n Saturday, mid-day, with a large portmanteau, a hoe, a rake, and a gorsegrubber. I thought I would not *>-• very popular when I got on to the bus. but I got a seat, and did not tread on anyone’s corns,” related a speake at the North Shore Expansion Leagumeeting at Takapuna, when another speaker declared it was a job to get on the buses “if you carried a loaf of bread,” and that the transport syst* m needed improvement.