NEWS BREVITIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 235, 23 December 1927, Page 9

NEWS BREVITIES

r Ice-cream on Sunday. —Tlenry Q. a Petone workshops employee, as fined £1 at Petone yesterday for slivering ice-cream on a Sunday, the of carrying on an occu- « uon in view of a public place.

Horticultural Students. —At a meetV i„* the executive council of the - stitute of Horticulture it was decided STant diplomas to 21 of die appliSeveral cases were deferred for *-uer information. Four cups are to •!. prov ided for competition instead of •°» as originally proposed.

Jersey Cow’s Triplets.— A Jersey cow . ‘ » farm at Taradalo has given birth “*Plets, two males and one female, • three being normal calves. Twins not unknown among cattle, but j. Wjts are very rare. Farmers in the strict are unable to quote another

Knocked Down by Lorry.— George remetri, a single man. aged 52, was stocked down by a motor-lorry at the “mer of Nelson and Fanshaxve Streets ,-t evening. The St. John Ambulance °k him to the Auckland Hospital, uuering from an injury to the right •» and facial abrasions. Mr. Demetri '■''a at 62 College Hill.

New Bus District. —By Gazette notice ‘ .boundaries of the No. 1 motorch!v bus are amended by exDow* frorn it the boroughs of Devon'Takapunn, Northcote and Bir--nhead, and the Takupuna. Birkenridings of the WaiCount y. The alterations are to Cludpat lll >ece mber 22. The areas exfcti lut a No. 1 district are to conNo. 2 omnibus district.

; ■ t rt^ l u S,^er * s Injured. —As a reAas ~, s o °t being crushed -while he the JJ nIoa ding telegraph poles from amer Kurow at King’s Wharf •j,' . , y - William Bergstrom was Aurti 1 the casualty ward of the kken * d^ J HospitaL He was later &oari 12 hl * h °me at 482 New North gside. by the SSU John