DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 February 1926, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

(P-»r Press Association.)

FRACTURED SKULL - AUCKLAND, January 29.? James Saunders fell down the steps of an overhead bridge at . the Newmarket Railway Station and was removed to hospital wit ha fractured skull.

YOUTH SHOT

CHRISTCHURCH, February 1.

Thomas Henry Macfarlarie/j-IS, son of a farmer at Glasnevin, was shot dead on Saturday, • through an accident with a, gun he was carrying while rabbiting.

MOTORISTS INJURED. CHRISTCHURCH, February 1. Five persons are in the Christchurch hospital suffering from injuries received in four motor accidents during the week-end. The'' most serious cases are J. R. Crawshaw, 49, fractured arm, and B- Merrit, 27, broken leg.

HOUSE ON FIRE.

CARTERTON, January 29

A fire at Gladstorfe this morning completely demolished a nine-roomed house c-wned and occupied by Alex. Grant. Nothing was saved, the occupants escaping m their night attire. The insurances amounted to £750.

CHINESE AND OPIUM

DUNEDIN, January 31., As the result of a raid in Carioll Street, last evening, two Chinese’ appeared at the Police. Court, Harrie Wong being charged with having in his possession opium in a. form/suitable for smoking, and Young Jou, that he smoked opiuip. Both pleaded guilty. Wong was fined £2O, and the other defendant £3. -

DRUNKEN MOTORIST DUNEDIN, February 1. ’ At the Police Court John Whip admitted being in charge of a motor car, while drunk, and was fined £lO, and his license cancelled for five years. The car, valued at £2OO, collided with an electric light pole, and was reduced to scrap iron. The man was admitted to the hospital.

CAR. FALLS INTO SEA.

NELSON, January 31.

A motoring fatality occurred on the Rocks Road late on Saturday evening. Reuben Stevens, ' an adult Maori, from the Maori Pa, was the driver of a cal, and with him was Mason Bailey, a Maori, 'married, aged 19. After rounding Magazine Point, on the Rocks Road, the car swerved to the cliff side of the road, and then headed almost straight for the sea wall, breaking the guard chains on the wall, and falling nose first on the sea and rocks below, about six feet. The car struck head first, and then turned over, with the head facing the shore. Mason Bailey was pinned underneath and drowned. Stevens is suffering from slight injuries and from cold and It is feared complications may set in. Two boys. Jack. Francis Heath and Arthur Nevil Heath, who were also m the car, escaped almost uninjured.

RATANA- CHURCH.

WANGANUI, January 29.

“It is not the first time in the world’s history that new religions have been obliged to seek pastures new,” a reporter was informed to-day, when enquiring into the report that some of the Ratana executive are seriously considering the removal of the headquarters of Ratana Church to Te Kuiti.

'One Maori said that the Natives had been pin-pricked by local bodies and health authorities in regard to sanitation at Ratana, and they resented this interference. Should' the headquarters of the church be removed, doubtless this would meair that a large number of Maoris now living at Ratana would also go to Te Kuiti. This in turn would be a big , loss to the business people of Wanganui. It is also mentioned in connexion with the removal proposal that a big farming scheme is being discussed whereby the young Maoris may be trained in farming pursuits, and the produce of the farm will be used or sold for the benefit of the new Maori community.