DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 September 1924, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

[Per Press Association.] ' KILLED AT PL AYt PALMERSTON N.', Sept 10. While playing in Terrace End Park yesterday afternoon, John Kenneu Bannerman, aged ' seven, fell from’ a chute, : sustaining injuries to. the head. He was" taken to the hospital and died at'midnight. ■ '• :

FIRE AT WELLINGTON. 1: WELLINGTON,' Sept. 8. To-night a large two-storeyed wooden building in Kent Terrace, occupied by A. 'V. Stewart, Ltd., was total!' destroyed by fire. The premises were owned by the Hon O. H. Izard. Two motor-cars and a lorry were destroyed. ■ PARALYSED BY COW. TAtJMARUNUI, September 10. Joseph Dunn, of Piriaka, was admitted to the Taumarunui Hospital suf-, fering from a fractured spine close to the neck. From particulars gathered, Dunn was knocked down by a cow, although it is vague how the actual break occurred. Dunn was immediately operated on, but at present he is paralysed. Hopes are entertained that he; in time, will regain the use of his limbs. ' x

FATALLY CRUSHED. , GORE, September 9

William Crawford, a married man, with two children, while working on a tractor at Wantwood Station, near Mandeville, to-day was crushed to death. The tractor got' into a boggy piece of grquiidJ The driver put on extra power, biit the machine upended, and fell back on the discs at the rear, crushing CraiVfbrd, the driver. He was dedd wheii found, and assistance had to be obtained to extricate him.

HOUSEWIFE’S DEATH.

TIMARU, September ?.

Mrs. Shaw, aged, 27, the Svife of Mr. H. S. Sh'aw, and the mother of four young children, died Suddenly when about her household duties in her home on Monday morning', her husband finding her on' the floor dead on his return to dinner at noon. At the inquest to-night, a verdict was returned that 'the cause of death was heart' disease. The deceased was of a particularly cheerful disposition and never had had an illness. ‘

BOATING TRAGEDY.

WAIROA, September 9.

This afternoon Magistrate Levvy held an adjourned inquest on Puru Solomon, one of the victims of the recent boating fatality at Whakaki. After hearing evidence a verdict was returned that deceased accidentally met his death by drowning. The Coroner added a rider that Wiremu Walker performed a heroic deed in rescuing Eric Rogers from certain death, and in recovering Puru Solomon’s body. APPEAL BY~“JOY-RIDERS.” ’ PALMERSTON N., Sept. 8. The appeal of Frederick Rule, Larsden, and Charles Strickland, who were each sentenced to one month’s imprisonment by Mr Stout, S.M., for wrongful conversion of a motor-car, was dismissed to-day by Mr Justice Reed.

His Honor expressed the opinion that the sentence was- imposed more as a deterrent for an increasingly frequent offence, than as individual punishment, and he did not feel disposed to disturb the decision.

The police gave evidence that since the sentence was imposed in July there had been a marked decrease in cases of joy-riding. ALLEGED THEFT. AUCKLAND, Sept. 8. Arising out of the<theft of electrical equipment from Turnbull and Jones’s warehouse in April, for which a man was recently sentenced to two years’ hard labour, an electrician named Walter McCarthy was to-day committed for trial on charges of having obstructed the course of justice and having stolen goods from Turnbull and Jonejs, valued at £3O/7/-. A constable gave evidence that when he spok© to accused concerning the arrest of the man already sentenced, the accused denied ever having heal'd of him or two previous witnesses. Evidence was given by a detective that accused admitted the other man had sold the goods to him, and property valued at £2l/2/2 was recovered from accused’s shop. BREACH OF LOTTERIES ACT. WANGANUI, Sept. P Edward O’Meara and Geoffrey Holley Phillip were charged at the Magistrate’s Court with disposing of choco ; , late by means of a ballot box at the recent Catholic Carnival.

The police stated that they had given warning early in the carnival that spinning jennies and other devices were not to lie used. O’Meara accepted the blame, he having charge of the stall where the ballot box and marbles were used. He claimed this was a class of device used for years past in Wanganui, and he had never received any warning that it was illegal. The Magistrate said the fault lay at the door of members who had failed to pass on the police warning to O’Meara. He inflicted a nominal penalty of 10/- each, with costs. FIRE BOARD’S FUNDS. DANNEVIRKE, Sept. 2b. point of importance to the small fire boards of the Dominion came before the Dannevirke Board, when intimation was received from the Under Secretary of Internal Affairs that it was illegal for the Board to create a reserve fund, by setting aside money each year with a view to the eventual installation of a street fire alarm system. On the other hand, it was pointed out by a member that the Board could borrow to carry out the work. Intimation was received from the Minister that he hoped to bring down amending legislation this session, which would permit the creation of a reserve fund out of the capital expenditure account.

STREET FATALITY.

WELLINGTON, September 10.

The inquest concerning the death of Albert Hollway, concluded to-day. „ The boy, Ronald Roper, who was riding the bicycle which knocked deceased down, said that the machine struck deceased lightly on the rigl|t leg. The impact did not carry him past where Hollway fell. Deceased was watching a passing motor-car. The Coroner, in returning a verdict, that deceased died ■ from a fractured skull, received through being knock® down by a bicycle ridden by Roper; remarked that it was an accident likely to happen only once in a thousand times. At the rate the man was walking and the boy was riding, no one would expect an accident would happen. In the great majority of cases, the bicycle would havb struck the man and he would, not have been knocked’ down. It must have caught him off his balance. '■ L”