DOMINION ITEMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 October 1926, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

(Per Press Association.)

WANGANUI HARBOUR. WANGANUI, October 20. Wanganui Harbour Board loan pro ■posals involving £40,000 for the purchase of disused buildings for cool stores, abattoirs, and wool stores, were carried to-day by 606 votes to 260. INJURED AT PLAY. INVERCARGILL, October 20. While playing on the road to-day, a little boy, named William Gibbs, residing ; n Biggar Street, wp.s run over by a, motor car. He was badly hurt and was admitted to the Southland Hospital this evening suffering from a fractured skull and severe bruises, and from shock. His condition is critical.

JIGGER MISHAP

WHANGAREI, October 21.

f A. mixed train last evening at Kauri, struck a jigger ridden by Arthur Hatley, of Papakura, bridge inspector. Hatley managed to jump clear, but jigger was thrown on top of liim and injured his left side, lacerating a kidney. He is now in Whangarei Hospital.

BORSTAL ESCAPEE. INVERCARGILL. Oct. 20. Allan Edwin Boilington, an inmate of the Borstal Institute, escaped from custody at 5 o’clock this evening. 'lhe police hav'e not the slightest clue as to his whereabouts. Boilington entered the institute in March and was serving a three years’ sentence for breaking, entering and theft He is eighteen years old, sft. Ilin, in height ,and is very fair. He was in prison garb when he escaped.

DROWNING TRAG IDLES. BLENHEIM, October 21. A boy, the seven-year-old son of Sugden_ Eckford, was drowned in the Opawa River yesterday afternoon. He was playing on the bank, and it is presumed that he slipped or fell in. The child was missed and a search instituted. A man dived into deep water and recovered the body. The body of the man discovered floating in the Opawa River on Sunday morning has been identified as Frederick Smith, farm labourer, supposed to have come from Riccarton, Christchurch. He was last seen nearly three weeks ago. ■