DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 February 1929, Page 9

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Association.) NEW SYNAGOGUE. WELLINGTON, February 10. The foundation svone of a new Jewish Synagogue, on the site of the old one on Wellington Terrace, was laid to-day by the Rev. Van Staveren, Chief Rabbi for the Dominion. GIRL SHOT. WAIROA, February 10. A girl aged eleven, the daughter of A. M. Gray, storekeeper, Terapatiki, was accidentally shot with a rifle. She was removed to the Wairoa Hospital with extensive injuries. She died later on Saturday afternoon. CHILD SCALDED DUNEDIN, February 11. A one-year-old child, named Kilpatrick, was admitted to the hospital on Saturday afternoon with severe scalds. The child fell from a perambulator at a picnic, upsetting a billy of boiling water. ENGINEERS’ AWARD. CHRISTCHURCH, February 9. In the general engineers’, boilermakers’ and moulders’ dispute to-day, the employers agreed to accept the 44 hours’ week. Mr T. O. Bishop (Secretary of the Ironmouklers’ Association) said that this decision had not been easy. He hoped the employees would realise the position, and that on other points in the dispute there would be an agreement that would give the industry some measure of relief as to costs.

PERJURY CHARGE. DANNEVIRKE, February 8. Arising out of a recent civil action, James Humphreys, painter and labourer, was committed for trial at the Supreme Court on a charge of making a statement knowing it to be false, and intending to mislead the Court. Accused alleged that he had made two payments of £5O each in connexion with a building contract, and that a friend of his was present when the second fifty pounds was paid. This was denied by the said friend, who said the accused had asked him prior to the civil action to swear that he saw accused paying £5O in notes, for which he received a receipt. The friend had declined to do this, as it would have been false.

MENTAL DEFECTIVES BOARD. AUCKLAND, February 10. It is understood that the constitution of the Board appointed under the Mental Defectives Act, 1928, is as follow: — Doctor Valentine (Director-General of Health); Doctor T. J. Gray (DirectorGeneral of Mental Hospitals), Mr. T. B. Strong (Director of Education), Mr. B. L. Dallard (Controller-General of Prisons); Miss Jean Begg (General Secretary of the Auckland Y.W.C.A.) Doctor Russell (Deputy Director General of Mental Hospitals), Mrs. Peter Fraser (Wellington). Dr. Russell is the psychiatrist. Mrs. Fraser has been Official Visitor for the Porirua Mental Hospital for a numbei* of years. Miss Begg has had large experience abroad, especially among the girls at Sleighton Farm. The Board will function almost immediately.

TUNNEL MISHAP. TAUMARUNUI, February 9. As the result of an explosion in a Public Works tunnel on the Stratford main trunk line near Ohura, the details of which are meagre, three men — James Delaney, Michael Hennessy, and a man named Woods, were injured. Delaney and Woods have suffered severe injuries, but Hennessy’s injuries are not serious. The injured men were brought to Okahukura by train and thence by ambulance to Taumarunui Hospital. LATER. The explosion was the result of the misfire of a shot in the Mangataroa Tunnel, nine miles from Ohura. Woods was badly bruised and cut about the face, and has one eye endangered. Hennessy has similar injuries of a less serious nature. Delaney sustained cuts and bruises.