The body of James Wex, a labourer, aged about 58. was found in an outhouse at the Railway Hotel, Orepuki. on Saturday morning with his throat cut (states a Press Association message from Invercargill), An inquest wtts held and a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind wtis returned. A young man, Gordon Shaw, employed by the Invercargill trainer S. Todd, was exercising a pacer in fast work on the Southland Racing Club’s tracks yesterday when the horse fell and he landed on his head, sustaining a compound fracture of the nose and other facial injuries. He was removed to the Southland Hospital.—Press Assn. Tlie outboard motor , races which wore to have been held at Eastbourne a fortnight ago and which were postponed on account of the stormy conditions have now been arranged to take place next Sunday afternoon. Further particulars will be advertised Jater,
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 136, 5 March 1929, Page 6
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