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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 June 1927, Page 2

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WANGANUI, June 25. Horace Alabaster, a milk vendor, was seriously injured this morning through his car going over a bank 70 to SO feet high' on the Durie Hill. The car was a complete wreck. His son, who w*as driving with him at the time, was thrown out half way down the bank, but was uninjured. WANGANUI, June 25. The police have received advice that a Maori, Puo Kumeroa, aged 20 years, was killed at Waikiki, up the river yesterday through being kicked by a horse. So far as can be ascertained he was putting the horse through a gate when it lashed out and kicked him on the chest. He died instantly presumably from rupture of the heart. NEW YORK, June 24. At Pottsville, Pennsylvania, J. T. Walker, aged twenty-one, the heir to five million dollars, was killed in an aeroplane smash. OTTAWA, June 24. Civil aviation is to be separated from the Military Department of Defence, to meet the growing needs of civil flying. Branches will be organised to control flying administrative duties and aeronautical engineering. WASHINGTON, June 24. The recall of five hundred marines from Nicaragua is part of a plan for the withdrawal of the American forces.