IN THE NEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 430, 11 May 1937, Page 4

IN THE NEWS.

OLD PUPILS’ BALL. At a well-attended meeting of the social committee of the Stratford High School Old Pupils’ Association last night, arrangements were made for the annual ball this month, when the presentation of debutantes will again be a feature of the function. MEMORIAL FUND. The firm of Cadbury-Fry-Hudson has given £5OO to the King George Memorial Fund and will distribute £650 as a bonus to factory employees in commemoration of the Coronation. The Dunedin City Council decided last night, on’the recommendation of the finance committee, to increase its original contribution of £lOO to the King George V. memorial fund to £lOOO. FARM LABOUR. Although it had positions for 50 farm assistants, it had only been able to fll 19 of them, the Wellington Boy Employment Committee stated yesterday. in a review of the year’s activities. Boys could not be induced to take up work in the country, the committee added. This was due mainly to the positions offering in the city, where both conditions of work and rates of remuneration were better. DELICATE SURGICAL FEAT. A delicate feat of surgery to remove a needle from a child's lung, identical with an operation for which an Australian boy was sent from Melbourne to the United States last year, was performed by one of the honorary surgeons in the throat department at the Auckland hospital at the weekend. The operation was completed in f lmin. 35secs., and the child enjoyed a meal as soon as it recovered

from the anaesthetic. WANTON DESTRUCTION. A scene of wanton destruction awaited a nurseryman at Hay’s Nurseries at Remuera, Auckland, when he arrived at the premises yesterday to commence work after the weekend. Every one of the three glass houses now in use had been entered, pots had been thrown from the benches to the ground, broken trays of young plants ready for delivery had been tipped out, and between 50 and l»0 large palms in pots housed in the fernery had been broken. From the footprints of sandshoes and naked feet left on some of the benches it is thought that the vandalism was the work of young boys.

I FORESTERS HALL EUCHRE. ( The results of the weekly euchre | party at the Foresters Hall were: ' Miss Loring 1, Mrs Beale 2, Miss i Rowe special, Miss Newman consola- • tion; Mr E. Salom 1, Mr P. Richmond |2, Mr Tunbridge special, Mr Egarr - consolation. Mr Caughey and part- • ner won a Monte Carlo dance. , INQUEST FINDING. I That the deceased, was burned to j 1 death in his whare when it was i ! totally destroyed by fire, there being- i ; no evidence to show how the fire oris;- I ' inated, was. the verdict of the Coroner, • Mr W. L. Kennedy J.P., at the inquest : held at Matau yesterday into the death of Janies Grant Milsom. i STRATFORD v. TUKAPA MATCH. I The following team will represent ' j Stratford seniors in their match j against Tukapa at Rugby Park, New ' i Plymouth, to-morrow:—V. Robson. J. j Ross, G. Lehmann, R. Cuff, W. Row- ’ | lands, B. Clifford-Jones, P. Collins, i I C. Sangster, R. Hinton, R. Young, It. j Clarke, R. Butcher, E. Smith. L. I ■ Clarke, P. Bird, P. Fastier, R. Garlich, ' j B. Davey. WANGANELLA FROM SYDNEY. ■ The Wanganelia arrived at WellI ingtori this morning from Sydney j The Wanganelia has 152 passengers/’ I and brings 132 bags of mail, inelud mg English air mail dispatched from London on April 21 and 24 and 94 i parcel-receptacles for Wellington. She is to leave at 10 p.m. on Thursday for ! Sydney and Melbourne.