DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 April 1932, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

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BOY KILLED BY CYCLE DUNEDIN, April 8.

William George Wilden, a small boy, was knocked down by a cycle on Wednesday evening, and he died at the hospital this afternoon.

TAKAKA QUAKE. NELSON, April 8

After a long period of comparative inactivity, a fairly heavy earthquake shock was felt at Takaka last night, i It was accompanied by tremors, which continued at intervals until the early hours of the morning, The biggest shock came with a loud rumbling sound a few minutes after one o’clock. It dislodged ornaments in some houses, and awakened people who were asleep. Considerable alarm was caused among guests at hotels in the "township. The officer in charge of the seismological station at Takaka considers the heaviest ’quake would have registered five or six on the RossiForel scale.

TRANSPORT APPEAL BOARD. WELLINGTON, April 8.

The Minister of Transport has announced the appointment made by the Governor-General to fill three positions on the Transport Appeal Board, under the Transport Licensing Act, 1931. The appointments are Justice Frazer (Chairman), Mr Lisle Aiderton (solicitor, Auckland), appointed from the nominations of the Motor Service Proprietors; Mr Thomas Jordan (solicitor, and Mayor, Masterton), appointed from the nominations by the executives of the Municipal and Counties’ Association. Justice Frazer is at present Chairman of both the Transport Appeal Board and of Central Licensing Authority. He is • relinquishing the latter position, however, and steps will be taken to make another appointment to the Central Licensing Authority in the near future. Owing to pressure of his other duties .in (the Arbitration and Compensation Courts, it has been found impossible for Justice Frazer to give sufficient time to transport licensing work, but as the same calls will not require to be made upon his services in respect of appeals, it has been decided to utilise his services and wide experience in that phase of work.