DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 March 1931, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

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A FATAL CAPSIZE CHRISTCHURCH, March 1. Leonard Joseph Laurence Clarke, 18, of Cheviot, was killed when the car lie was driving capsized over a bank on the road to Cheviot yesterday. The cause was a blown-out tyre.

STOREKEEPER’S BANKRUPTCY. . NELSON, February 27.

Agreeing with bankrupt that the direct cause of his insolvency was the unexpected closing down of the Midland railway construction, creditors in the- bankrupt estate of a storekeeper on the works passed a resolution requesting the Assignee to make representation to the Government with a view to gaining some Government relief for the creditors.

PUKEMIRO OUTBREAK. HAMILTON, February 27

By the process of elimination . the bacteriologists at the Waikato Hospital and Auckland have decided that the outbreak at Pukemiro (which affected 100 persons and caused three deaths), is hardly likely to be anything but dysentery of some type. The patients in the township are now convalescent and no further cases have been reported.

PEDESTRIAN KILLED

WHAKATANE, February 28.

A fatal accident occurred on the main road at Taneatua at nine o’clock last night, when a light, car driven by Mr. R. Mitchell, a sheepfarmer, of Taneatua, crashed into two pedestrians going in the same direction, killing Mr. Lance Foster, aged fifty years, a farmer of Pekatahi, and slightly injuring Mr. J. Ferguson, farmer, of Taneatua. Both were old residents of the district. Mr. Ferguson was admitted to the Whakatane Hospital.

MAORI. HYGIENE. WELLINGTON, March 1

In the course of a week or so, the Director of the Maori Hygiene Division will relinquish his present position, and proceed to the Cook Islands to become Chief Medical Officer in the group, with his headquarters at Rarotonga. ' No immediate successor will be appointed, but it is understood, that the Director of the Public Hygiene Division, Dr T. McKibbin, in addition to his present duties, will act as administrative head of the Maori Hygiene Division.

CONSTABLE ASSAULTED. ASHBURTON, March 2

Henry Blackwell, a labourer, charged with drunkenness, assault on a constable, resisting arrest, and damaging a motor car, was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment without the option of a fine on the assault charge. After his arrest for drunkenness, accused suddenlj r turned on the constable, hitting him across the mouth, hitting him in various parts of the body, and tearing his trousers. The constable called on a passer-by for assistance, and when placed in a motorcar, accused damaged it to the extent of 35/-, which he was ordered to pay.

ABSCONDING SOLICITOR. AUCKLAND, February 28

Wilfred Wilson Legge, aged twentysix, who gave himself up to the Auckland police on February 20, saying that he had committed an offence in another country, appeared on remand to-day. The detective-sergeant said that the Commissioner of Police had cabled England and had received a reply from the Chief Constable of Mold, Flintshire, stating that Legge was an absconding solicitor, who was wanted for alleged forgery. 'The Home Office was being consulted and the Chief Constable asked that accused be held. He was remanded accordingly. YOUNG MAN’S DEATH. GISBORNE, February 2S. About 11 o’clock this morning, a boy on Waikanae Beach noticed -a body floating in the water, and as he saw no movement, he gave an alarm to the caretaker, and then dashed in and brought out the body of John Marshall, 29 years of age. Artificial respiration was continued for over an hour without success. Death is believed to have been due to heart failure. Deceased’s parents are not alive, and he came from Edinburgh about five years ago, residing with an uncle, Mr James McAllen Marshall, in Gisborne. Deceased was, employed as night porter at the Morcre Hotel, but was spending a brief holiday in Gisborne. GISBORNE, March 2. A verdict of accidental drowning whilst bathing was returned at the inquest on John Marshall. The Coroner remarked that it was difficult to account for the drowning, as Marshall was able to swim, and medical evidence showed there was nothing wrong with him physically or organically. The evidence of the police showed that a careful search of the beach failed to discover his clothes, which deceased left at home, though his bicycle and towel were found.