NEWS BREVITIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 217, 2 December 1927, Page 9

NEWS BREVITIES

Matamata Roads. —Matamata Town j Board has decided on road improvement work costing £ 6,400. One ten- ; der for £1,535 31s 6d luts already been ! let. Sent to Borstal. —Phyllis Richards. | aged 17. charged at the Police Court ! to-day with breach of probation, was | sent to the Borstal Institute for two ; years. £16.000 For Six Shops- —A block of | six shops and offices at the corner of Madras and Cashel Streets. Christchurch, has been sold to D. H. Brown and Sons. The price is approximately £16,000. Signposts Wanted. The Pukekolie branch of the Auckland Auto Association has decided to ask that signposts l>e erected on the new deviation over Hill as the route was being largely used by motorists. Maori Exhibits for Museum.— Tho Moss Davis collection of Maori and Islands exhibits has been received by the curator of the Auckland MuseunjMr. Gilbert Arehey. and will shortly be placed on display. Rain in Christchurch. —Rainfall in Christchurch during November was 68 per cent, in excess of the average for the month. Nineteen days were wet.—Press Association. Hamilton Camping Site. —The Ham- | ilton Borough Council has decided to give £25 toward the cost of improving a motor-camping site in the borough if the Automobile Association contributes £SO. The Hamilton branch will find the money. Mount Roskill’s New Fire Station.— The opening of the new lire station in Mount Albert Road has been postponed until 3 p.m. on Saturday, December 10,. This is due to the inability of Sir Maui Pomare, Acting-Minister of Internal Affairs, to attend owing to Parliament not having ended its session. Farmer Found Drowned. —A farmer. James Harmell, aged 37. an unmarried man. was found drowned in a creek on his farm near Inglewood yesterday. In the morning Harmell left home to cut blackberry. He did not return and searchers found the body lying in two feet of water. —Press Association. Nurses’ Training. —The Minister of Health, the Hon. J. A. Young, has approved of the establishment of a postgraduate course for nurses at Wellington. beginning on March 1. 1928. The course is intended for general trained nurses who have completed three years’ training in a general hospital, and are registered ill New Zealand. —Press Association. *‘A Shocking Job.” —At the inquest at Napier yesterday on a little girl of Dorothy Ley land Green, who was found hanging with her head caught in tho window of a house, the coroner remarked that it was one of the saddest cases with which he had had to deal “The man who made the window made a shocking job of it,” he added.—Press Association. Girl's Fall from Horse. —Mary Kennedy, aged 12, fell from her pony in Cook Street, Howick, on Wednesday evening through the girth strap of the saddle working loose. She was taken home suffering from a fracture of the left arm and shock, and was later taken to the Auckland Hospital. The injured girl is a daughter of the constable stationed at Howick. Wash-house on Fire. —A fire in wash-house attached to a bouse at 112 Crummer Road. Grey Lynn, short!;* after 9 a.m. yesterday, was easily extinguished by the City Fire BrigadThe house is owned by Mr. C. L. Smyth and occupied by Mr. G. Arm*'-. Early this morning a wash-house adjoining a house at 118 Svmonds Street, owned by the Christian Science Churcii and occupied by Mr. V. caught fire. No damage v.*a> done. The contents **f the house re insured for £IOO in the Victoria Office.