SOUTH OTAGO NEWS

Evening Star, Issue 21718, 12 May 1934, Page 13

SOUTH OTAGO NEWS

DIVER AT TRAFFIC BRIDGE [Feosi Due Correspondent.] The unusual sight of a diver making a descent in the Molyneux River at the site of the new traffic bridge at Balclutha yesterday attracted great interest, and a small crowd gathered to watch proceedings, the footbridge of the present bridge being a convenient gallery for the spectators. The diver was Mr Davis, foreman of the works, who was endeavouring to locate a casting, a support between the cylinder and the superstructure, which had fallen into the water. Conditions, however, were not favourable, and after one brief descent, probing operations were carried out and an object, believed to be the required article, has been located.

A detachment of about twenty members of the Dunedin Branch of the Legion of Frontiersmen with their 0.C., Colonel Gordon Mitchell, and Major J. C. Findlater, of the New Zealand Headquarters Staff, Hawera, visited Balclutha on Thursday night with a v l c W to organising a local branch. ■ After an address by Major Findlater on the ideals of the movement, it was formally decided to form a troop, and a number of enrolments were then made. An inquiry into the death of Leslie Turner, a boy aged six' years, who died at Clinton as the result of injuries sustained in a motor accident at Clinton on Tuesday, May 1, was concluded yesterday afternoon. Mr A. Martin, district coroner, ■.presided, and Constable Doak represented the police. The inquiry was opened last week, and was adjourned after the evidence of the father, Harold C. Turner, a New Zealand Kail ways employee, had been given.—Michael John Dennehy, Balclutha, driver of the car, and Alfred J. West, of Clinton, who was driving a car in front of Dennehy, gave evidence as to how the accident occurred. The boy, with his sister, had been playing with hoops on the road. They saw the first car approach and stopped to let it past, after which tho boy ran across the road, failing to notice Dennehy’s car coming along, and was knocked down.—Evidence was_ also by a neighbour, Charlotte Taylor. ?he coroner’s verdict was that the deceased met his death in an accident, his skull being fractured in a collision with a car driven by Michael Dennehy. There was no blame attachable to anyone. ,