LEVEL CROSSING SMASH.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 117, 17 May 1917, Page 2

LEVEL CROSSING SMASH.

(By Tele.raph.-Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. The Eotorua express ran int-i a .orry on a level crossing north of Frankton. Two horses were killed. No other details are available.

The secretary of the Auckland Rugby Football League (Mr R. A. Spinley) has received a letter from the Hon. Arthur M. Mvers, who was re-elected this year as president of. the League, expressing gratification at the splendid response to the call of Empire made by members ot the League. In the courje of the letter he remarks:—"Sports clubs throughout the Dominion have on the whole set a splendid example in the manner in which their young members rallied round the Hag in the hour of danger; but surely the fact that the League has contributed no less than 600 men to the fighting ranks must constitute a record even among our patriotic sports bodies. Permit mc to take this opportunity of sharing in the pride fe't by the whole of your members in the achievement of League members at the front, and also of expressing my heartfelt sympathy with the relatives and friends of those who have fallen nobly in the field of battle."

Mr Bruce Scott, for several years managing clerk to Messrs Edmund Mahony and Son, solicitors, Auckland, was this morning, on the motion of Mr Edmund Mahony, admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court by the Chief Justice Sir Robert Stout.