AWAPUNI FIRE VICTIM

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3758, 29 June 1932, Page 6

AWAPUNI FIRE VICTIM

IDK NT IT Y KST A BLISH K D MR CODLING OF V A3 MFIISTON RFX’OGXISFD BY DKXTTTR/E As tlie result of their investigations into the fatal liie a Lear the A wap nn i Old People’s Home tlie police believe the l victim was Percy Codling, of Nash Street, Palmerston. With little to guide them as to the identity .of the victim iexcept an upptor <s'et of ililse teeth, the detectives in charge of the inquiries prosecuted tliee until they located the dentist who liad supplied the teeth and hy this means the denture was traced as being that of Percy Codling. Tlie teeth are accepted as sufficient proof of identity. It is recalled that, a short time ago Codling was ordered to give up possession, of the two-roomed house which ho tenanted in Nash Street. On refusing to do so ho was sentenced to. three days’ gaol. On June 20 this house was badly gutted by fire. The body was first found bv AI V A, M. Spilmnn, manager of the city abattoirs, when lu> was viewing the ruins of tlio fire. No definite evidence has bean obtained as to the origin of the fire but it is believed the man must have fallen asleep while smoking. FOX TON’S FEARS

INUNDATION OF COUNTRY FLOODING OF TIIE RIVER < IREASY CONDITIONS After two threatened floods, there seems little doubt that Manawatu will inundate the lower portion of its '.listriot as a result of the recent heavy rains, says a Foxton message. Since Saturday night periodical heavy downpours have been experienced and last night, and early this morning the rain lias been torrential. On Tuesday tin* Main Drain at Whirokimecommenced to overflow its banks near the rim* 1 bridge and it will not he long before tlie already waterlogged Whirokino tills up. Tlie river yesterday was running hank high, hut: so far the Moutoa banks have withstood the strain. If the river continues rising, however. nothing short of a big* flood can result. Farmers have already taken precautions of removing stock from the threatened areas in both the Moutoa and Whirokino districts. Matakarapa, the low-lying area l»e----ins brought into cultivation opposite Foxton, is practically a sea of water.