25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 198, 19 May 1936, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

King George’s Horse Wins

(From “The Dominion,” May 22,

King George gained his first victory on the turf when his horse Pintadean won the Fitzwilliam Stakes at Doncaster.

As a protest against the refusal of the Shipping Federation to admit that the seamen have any grievances requiring urgest discussion, the National Seamen’s Union is arranging holiday camps in England lasting a fortnight. The camps are to be started on May 20, and it is expected that 7000 seamen from various ports will join the camps. The Seamen’s Union officials deny that the movement is a strike, although they state that it mav develop into one at any moment. » * *

A family consisting of a man and wife and their son, aged eight, have been found dead in their residence at North Sydney. Tlie bodies were lying with their backs close together, and with a bottle of poison beside them The police think that the parents murdered their child and then committed suicide. The man was a chemist and they came from Wellington or Auckland. He was out of work an. absolutely destitute. The house was bare of furniture.