DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 December 1929, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Association.)SURFACEMAN INJURED. CHRISTCHURCH, December 2. While working in a pit at the Islington Railway Works to-day, George Miller, of Riccarton, surfaceman, had his right arm caught in the cogs of some machinery, his hand being almost torn off. Portion of his arm was later amputated at the hospital. DEATH AFTER CRICKET. AUCKLAND, December 3. Arthur Desmond Whitley, aged 13, son of R. S. Whitley, of Vincent Avenue, Remuera, died suddenly this morning as the result of being struck by a cricket ball- when playing at Remuera school yesterday. MISSING CIGARETTES. CHRISTCHURCH, December 3. Two boys, aged 17 and 15, charged with the theft of cigarettes, valued at £73, from T. H. Green and Co.; also John Henry Golmie, 41, charged with receiving the same, were remanded till Saturday. FIRE AT WAIROA. WAIROA, December 3. At seven o’clock, this morning, fire broke out in the rear showroom at Walker’s drapery store, Marine Parade, but was quickly subdued by the brigade, but the stock was badly damaged by smoke and water. The building, owned by Douglas Wilson, of Napier, was slightly damaged. The stock was insured in the South British and Home Insurance offices, for £l5OO in each.

STORE ROBBED. AUCKLAND, December 3. Owing to previous robberies at Titirangi, where the tea rooms are being used as a temporary store and post office, pending the erection of a new hotel, a young man for 12 months past has been sleeping on the premises, with a loaded gun. On Wednesday night his bed got wet and he slept elsewhere, with the result that robbers broke in and removed £5O to £6O Avorth of groceries, the entire stock of cigarettes and tobacco, using and returning a .motor car parked beneath the tea rooms. SENT TO BORSTAL. DUNEDIN, December 3. “He was > a member of one of the worst bunches of young hoodlums that have been in Dunedin for some time,” said Magistrate Bartholomew, when dealing with Francis Henry Taylor, 20, who appeared for sentence on a charge of having insufficient means of support. The police said that accused left Dunedin without notifying the Probation Officer. He had previous convictions, and was a thief. “He’s not a trier and always seems to have a grievance,” said the Probation Officer. Accused was sentenced to two years at Borstal. EDUCATION COMMISSION. DUNEDIN, December 2. Accompanied by the Minister of Education, Hon. H. Atmore, the Parliamentary Committee on Education arrived in Dunedin yesterday morning. The Committee, which is comprised of Messrs W. A. Bodkin (chairman), G. C. Black, Rev. Clyde Carr, J. A. Young, G. R. Sykes, H. Holland, and A. J. Murdoch, visited the Girls’ and Boys’ High Schools, and the King Edward Technical College in the morning, and in the afternoon inspected the Home Science, Dental, and Medical Schools and the Otago University. The whole of to-morrow will be occupied by the taking of evidence, which will be heard in private. The Committee will leave for Oamaru by the express next morning.