In brief

Press, 27 September 1988, Page 3

In brief

Christmas mail closes Several overseas surface mails close at' the Christchurch Mail Centre at 9 a.m. tomorrow for Christmas mailing. For letters and greeting cards, the mail for Bangladesh closes tomorrow. For parcels and small packets, the mail for Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago, closes tomorrow. Jacob still battling An Ashhurst youngster, Jacob Waldock, is still battling for his life after his bone-marrow transplant at Sydney’s Prince of Wales Children’s Hospital. “There has been no further improvement and Jacob is still unwell,” his transplant surgeon, Mr Marcus Vowels, said yesterday. Jacob’s parents were cheered by a huge get-well card that arrived from a Palmerston North radio station last week, said a hospital spokesman, Ms Nicole Brodie.—NZPA. Man’s body found The body of a man, believed to be that of Kerry Ronald Swete of Dunedin, was found on the beach at Sandy Bay, north of Kaikoura, about 9 a.m. on Sunday. Mr Swete, aged 32, an electrician, has been missing in the area for more than a week. Air, sea and land searches had failed to find any trace of him after his van and a horse float had been found abandoned on the roadside. The body was taken to Blenheim for formal identification and a post mortem. Constable comfortable Wairoa policeman, Constable Joe Kairau, was in a comfortable condition in Napier Hospital yesterday, where he is recovering from eye injuries received during Thursday’s shooting on the Mahia Peninsula. The hospital is unable to say yet whether Constable Kairau will regain full sight in one eye, which was treated during emergency surgery after he was: flown to Napier on Thursday. It is also not sure when he will be discharged. Nuhaka Constable Phil Rowe, also injured in the incident, hopes to be back at work by the end of the week.—PA. Intruder rapes woman A Hamilton woman was raped early yesterday morning' after she woke to find an intruder in her bedroom, police say. Senior-Sergeant Bryan Oliver said the woman, aged 18, was alone in the flat when the incident occurred.—PA. ; I