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<Per Pren Aaaociation.) TRAWLING “CATCH.” BLENHEIM, November 25. / While trawling off Wairau bar yesterday,. a party of fishermen found in their net a boot with the remains of a huihan foot in it. This discovery, it is believed, will throw some light upon the disappearance from his ■ launch some months ago of a young fisherman, Roy Eyles. The boot is. being brought to Blenheim for Identification purposes. ' , LIFT WELL FATALITY. WELLINGTON, November 25. George Shephard, a carpenter, aged 31, of 22 Chamberlain Street, Karori, died in the Public Hospital this afternoon from a fractured skull received as the result of being knockeddown . a lift well during building operations in the ,T. and G. building, at the corner of Grey Street and Lambtqn Qudy, about 11.40' a.m. CHINESE IMPRISONED. WELLINGTON, November 26. A Chinese, Lum On, was sentenced by Mr Page, S.M., to two months’ imprisonment for overstaying the period under a temporary permit to visit the Dominion. The Collector of Customs said there i was evidently an organised system to defy the law. Mr Page refused a request for a fine instead-of imprisonment. The man will be deported at the end of the term. OTAGO L.R~OFFICERS. DUNEDIN, November 25. A meeting of the delegats to the Otago Labour Representation Committee, at which Mr W. Nash, National Secretary of the N.Z. labour Party, was present, was held last night, when the following officers were elected: — President, Mr W. Silverstone; vicepresident, Mr S. W. Gaspar; treasurer, Mr A. J. Morrison; secretary, Mr W. Townley; auditors, Messrs J. Gilchrist and A. Pay ton; trustees, Messrs R. S. Webb and A. Ward; executive committee, Miss M. Egan, Messrs F. Jones, J. Robinson, J. Saunders and R. S. Webb.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 November 1927, Page 6
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