ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1913, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

(*T- TEUCGRAPHt— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ' , AUCKLAND,; This Day. . A boy 1 named Wilfred t Thomas' Vihson, aged 14, was 'drowned in the ! Waikato River at' Mercer. Charles Kennedy, aged 70, was found dead at Taheke/near fiawene. A kinematograph plant is (telegraphs our Dunedin correspondent) to be used at Dunedin Hospital when lectures are being given to the students. The University Council is' to be asked to contribute one-third of the cost of the machine. The new tea kiosk recently erected by the City Council at Newtown Park Was formally opened 'by Ms 'Worship the' Mayor (Mr. D. M'Laren) this morning, m the presence of a large assemblage 'of the public, who had gathered on the grourid in, connection with the early settlers' celebration^. In doing bo, he Said .that the erection of the kiosk marked another step in the advancement of the city, which meant an addition to the attractions that the- council was endeavouring to make in the improvement of the recreation grounds. All citizens would recognise that that was a very desirable object. Recently ■ the council had lit the park by electric light for the purposes of evening sports, and that was only a part of an extensive, programme that 'the council intended to carry through, with the hearty co-opera-tion of the citiiens, , because no matter who w.ere in the position of councillors or who was Mayor, no work could properly be carried through for the advancement' of the city without the hearty cooperation of the citizens in the undertaking, and he hoped that when they had, as they would have, at Easter time, a grand carnival gathering on the park, the citizens would show' that they had s* pride in the city and. that they intended to make it the greatest, the grandest, in New Zealand. He believed that the people of Wellington did not recognise its beauty, perhaps because they saw tdo little of it. There was i uo doubt that the park had been very much improved, and in time it would be made -still more attractive., He then, formally declared .the' kiosk open, and the brief ceremony concluded with three cheers for the early settlers. Tenders- for metalling • are called by the Akitio County Council. Mr. H. Bfcigtnt, Nalaon, »dy«rti»ts Nelson lands for sale — 1191 aorta in all.