DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 December 1929, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

I (Per Press Association.) FOUND DEAD. WELLINGTON, December 3. Archibald Lawrie, aged 68, residing at 67, Coromandel Street, was found dead in his bed this morning, with an artery in his left wrist severed. WATERSIDER KILLED. WELLINGTON, December 3. James Kirkwood, a waterside worker, of 151, Adelaide Road, died this afternoon as the result of injuries received when a tray, holding fifty , boxes of butter fell on him, when he was helping to load the Rahgitikei. He received a fracture of the skull, and a fracture of the spine. LORRY DRIVER INJURED. GISBORNE, December 4. Serious injuries were sustained by a young man, W. Fountain, driving a wool lorry near Tangihau Station, when the lorry left the road, rolling down a steep hillside and somersaulting several times. Fountain’s injuries include broken ribs and injured back. FALSE PRETENCES. GISBORNE, December 4. Aliouen Alan Gibson, 39, Canadian, was ordered two years’ probation, to follow an equal term he is now serving, by Mr Harper, S'.M., at the police court this morning, on two charges of obtaining goods by false pretences, to which he pleaded guilty. MOTOR CYCLIST INJURED. AUCKLAND, December 3. Injuries so severe that his right leg had to be amputated were received by Samuel Shepherd, aged 45 years, when a motor cycle which he was riding collided with a taxi cab at Epsom about 2.45 o’clock this morning. Shepherd, who is a baker, was on his way to work. Shepherd is married, with a large family. His condition is reported to be critical. T.B. SANATORIA. PALMERSTON NORTH, Dec. 3. At a conference to-day here, delegates from the Hospital Boards of the North Island declined to form a group to take over the administration of the Pukeora and Otaki sanatoria from the Health Department, in view of the fact that these two institutions were being economically run already; the conditions of admission were satisfactorw, and there was nothing to show the Boards could run these sanatoria more efficiently. GOVERNOR GENERAL. PALMERSTON NORTH, Dec. 4. This morning the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new buildings at Massey College was performed by the Governor-General. Included amongst those present were the Hon. G. W. Forbes, the Hon. E. Newman, the Hon. G. J. Smith, and Sir George Fowlds, Chairman of the College Council. Later the Governor-General was entertained at lunch by the Borough Council, and this afternoon he will be accorded a farewell by the citizens. TARANAKI THEFTS. NEW PLYMOUTH, December 3. For a fortnight past the Supreme Court has been engaged in hearing a long series of charges against a gang of young thieves, who have been operating in Taranaki. The last case of the series was heard to-day in the retrial of William Percival Leonard Knight, who was found guilty on numerous charges of theft from eight postal boxes in New Plymouth, and four in Stratford, and of attempting to break and enter a chemist’s shop at Waitara. Sentence was deferred.

AMERICAN TOURISTS. ROTORUA, December 3. Prioi 1 to the departure from Auckland of the tourist liner “Malolo,” the manager of the American tourists expressed the opinion that the hotel and transport arrangements at Rotorua were far superior to those experienced at o.ther places on the tour. The drivers were specially eulogised for the information freely given by them. The tourists are delighted with the lakes district, and its thermal wonders. The Government Tourist Department handled the tour, and the R.M. Transport Company were responsible for the car organisation. There were forty-two closed cars made available. Qreat regret was expressed at the short duration of the visit. Enquiries were also made for aeroplane facilities to fly to Auckland. SEARCH FOR OPIUM. WELLINGTON, December 3. A large party of detectives and plain clothes policemen raided Haining Street, in the city’s Chinese quarter, this afternoon, and for well over an hour carried on a fruitless search for opium. The arrival of the Makura and Marama from Sydney had evidently suggested new supplies of the drug. On entering three of the houses, the thoroughness of the search was made apparent to the crowd gathered outside by the sounds of old floor boards being pulled up. Nothing was left undone to find any opium which might be secreted away. , While the search was proceeding the entire Chinese population of Haining Street seemed to gather on the footpath opposite, and judging by their animated chatter and the happy expressions on their faces, it would not take much imagination to guess that the Celestials knew that there was nothing in the houses being raided.