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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 139, 9 December 1918, Page 8

A Press Association telegram: from Auckland states that the Auckland section of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association carried unanimously a motion strongly urgiDg the executive to impress on the Department and the Post- ■ master-General the- necessity for granting the telegraph side direct representation in the administrating division. Mrs. Robertson, who met with a sorious accident through the capsiiing of a motor-car on the Paekakariki Hill, her son-in-law (Mr. W. F. Williams, of Paraparaumu), who was drivingj being killed, is making a good recovery in the Otaki Hospital. The hospital attendant* consider Mrs. Robertson as something of a marvel. This old lady (73 years of age) was thrown from a car, and ieV about 15 to 17 chains down a precipitour ; ; bill, being very badly bruised from heac. .'; to foot, sustaining a fractured arm ancj. very severe cuts on her legs, and wasV'' lying exposed on the face of the his' v for some 27 hours —conditions which would have been sufficient to kill most robnst young people —yet she i* doing well at the hospital, and is wonderfully bright and cheerful. The Inglewood Record has reappeared after a fortnight's suspension, caused by all its Btaff going down with the influenza. Coal supplies are extremely scarce in Christchurch, and if the official Coal Committee had not been instrumental in procuring 250 tons from the Admiralty stocks at Lyttelton, many" institution* and households would have been absolutely without fuel (states the Sub). The difficulty was caused through the cessation of West Coast shipping, there being an interval of nearly three weeks without a consignment reaching Lyttelton. Australian shipping was also affected. The position has been saved somewhat by file arrival of three vessels from the West Coast. A Newcastle steamer has also arrived, but it is understood that the trade will have to share in this consignment with the Railway Department. If will probably take some little while before matters resume normal. Tan Boots for summer wear somehow feel more comfortable. See our stocks at 32b to, 35s 6d, 38s 6d. Geo. Fowld* Ltd., Manners-etreet.—Adv*.