DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1931, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[per press association.]

YOUTH MISSING. ROTORUA', May 7. Robert Mathias, 19, has been missing on Lake Rotorua since Sunday. His canoe and paddle were found floating, but there is no trace oi Mathias yet. STOLEN MONEY. WELLINGTON, May 7. William Ernest Clapham, for theit as servant of £205, was sentenced at the Supreme Court to eighteen - months reformative detention. » KILLED BY TRAM. WELLINGTON, May 7. Knocked down by a tramcar in B.ugby Street yesterday after "°°ir’ Walter Young, labourer, died latei ir the Wellington Hospital from head n juries. It is understood that deceased was employed by the City Corporation. He was aged sixty-one. WORKER GASSED. GISBORNE, May 7 ( . Accidentally killed by poisoning, was the verdict returned by ner P H Harper this morning, at the inquest on Walter Henry Morrow, overcome by gas fumes on Tuesday. The Coroner added that he trusted the unfortunate accident would impress upon the Gas Company the wisdom of employing not less than two men on work of this nature. DRUNKEN DRIVER. WELLINGTON, May 7. Cyril George Carey, farmer, 53, pleaded guilty at the Magistrate’s Court, to being intoxicated whilst in charge of a motor car. Acpording to the evidence, he crashed into a pillar of a railway bridge on the Hutt Road at a speed of 25 miles an hour, after driving all over the road. Evidence was also given that he was under the influence of liquor. The Magistrate took into account, in sentencing him, the monetary loss of £l2O, as the result of the accident, Carey was fined £lO, and was deprived of his license’ for six months. SAFE ROBBERY ' NAPIER, May 6. Further details of the robbery of the Public Works Department office safe at Murapara, forty-six miles from Rotorua, reveal the fact that the sum taken totalled £2,199, this being £699 in excess of the sum which was yesterday reported to have been taken. The haul, which was all in notes, consisted of 309 £5 notes, 604 £1 notes and 100 10/- notes. The notes of the last denomination, all Bank of New Zealand notes, were numbered from C 324091 to C 325000, and were signed by D. F. Reid and C. S. Davy. The actual times between which the daring burglary was effected were 9 p.m. on Monday and 4 a.m. No details as to how entrance to the office safe was effected have been received.