Last Look Round—

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 517, 21 November 1928, Page 13

Last Look Round —

Open-Air Schools The delay in the building of an openair school at Avondale South is not the fault of the Education Board, the chairman. Mr. A. Burns, explained today. The transfer of the extra ground j acquired for the building was holding up the project. • * * Suicide by Poisoning I Frederick R. Garlick, employed on 1 Woodbank Station. Hanmer Springs, j Christchurch, committed suicide by ] poisoning on Monday. At un inquest I a verdict of death from poison, selfadministered. was returned. Bach Burglar Sentenced In the Supreme Court at Palmeri ston to-day. Cecil Francis Gillies. 32. j a salesman and steward, on two : charges of breaking and entering and i theft from seaside cottages at Otaki, | was sentenced to two years’ rtformai tive detention. Aero CL«b in Manawatu At a meeting last evening at Palmerston Norths it was decided to form a. | Manawatu A*?ro Club. Forty members j were enrolled, eix of whom have had I actual flying experience.—P.A. Woman's Death A verdict that decreased was accidentally killed was returned by the coroner at an inquesi into the death of Minnie Reed, single, aged 43, who died as tho result of a collision between her motor-cycle and a car at Palmerston North.—P.A. * • * Woman's Hip Fractured Mrs. E. Baring Gould, aged 76. living with her daughter. Mrs. R. C. Austin, was cooking when she tripped against a box and fell heavily, fracturing a hip. fc?he is in the Pahiad.ua Hospital. —P.A. * * * Received Stolen Goods At the Supreme Court a* Invercargill to-day Charles Jackson, a wharf labourer at Bluff, was sentenced to three months* imprisonment with hard labour for receiving goods knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Justice MacGregor said that but for the jury’s strong recommendation to mercy he would have imposed a much more severe sentence as offences of this kind were much too common.—P.A. Railway Excursion Trips The Railway Department, in conjunction with launch proprietors, will run an excursion trip from Whangarei to Russell and back on Sunday, November 25. Details of the trip are advertised in this issue. A combined rail and motor excursion will also be run by the department on the same day, from Auckland to Arapuni, at cheap fares. The trains will also take excursionists to Hamilton. Particulars are advertised. * * * School Rolls Rising School rolls in the Auckland education district are rising, there being 449 more pupils at the end of September, 1928, than in September, 1927. In tho 762 schools, including 56 half-time schools, there were 35,751 boys and 32,17# girls, making a total of 67.929. The average attendances were:—Boys, 31,858; girls, 28,428; the total being an average of 88.74 per cent, of the roll number. The average attendance was better by 1,936 than in 1927. Relief Expenditure The Auckland Hospital Board’s expenditure on relief has increased considerably. This was commented upon by the chairman, Mr. W. Wallace, at yesterday’s meeting. During the first seven months of 1924 the sum of £11,475 was spent. In 3 925 it rose to £10,708, £3 5,780 in 1926, £19,288 in 1927, and £26,259 in 1928. The relief committee reported that 106 new cases were considered during October, as against 123 in September, and 129 in August. The cases revised numbered 319 in October, 304 in September, and 314 in August. Watersiders Confer The anriuaL conference of the Dominion Waterside Workers’ Federation opened this morning, under the presidency of Mr. L. Glover, the 30 delegates present representing all ports. The conference is being held at New Plymouth. They were officially welcomed by the Mayor, and after the president had replied the conference went into committee. This afternoon the delegates will be driven around town and the neighbourhood as guests of the borough council. Mr. Glover referred to thp movement to concentrate overseas shipping at main ports as unfavourable to the federation.