BUSHMAN KILLED

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 April 1933, Page 7

BUSHMAN KILLED

INANGAHUA FATALITY. The Greymouth police have received advice, from Reefton, that a bushfalling fatality occurred at Inangahua yesterday. The victim was Benjamin Gordon Hooper, 46, bushman, employed by A. R. Wallis, sawmillers. He was struck on the head by the falling limb of a tree, at 2 p.m. Hooper was conveyed to Nurse Wills’ nursing home at Reefton, where he died at 6 p.m. Deceased was married, and leaves his widow and five young children. Mrs. Hooper is a daughter of Mr. H. Betts. An inquest was to be held at Reefton, to-day; ' The Holy Trinity Church, Gisborne, -damaged in September by quakes, will be reconstructed in brick if the parishioners accept the vestrymen’s recommendation. The Diocesan architects report that the brickwork is exceptionally sound, that the September'damage was due mainly to the front wall not being secured to the roof principals, and that the lowering of the roof, and reinforcing will render the structure completely quakeproof. The Synod offers three-quar-ters of the restoration costs as a free grant, providing the present building is not demolished. —Press Assn. Ngaire, a name for girls, is not Maori, writes “Tangiwai” in the “New Zealand Railways Magazine” To be Maori it should be Ngaere, and simply means a swamp or bog. But parents, when told that, “positively won’t believe it; the idea is fixed in their minds that it means beautiful hope from heaven, or darling ray of sunshine, or something like that. And, of course, they pronounce it *Ny-ree.’ Another name which for some inexplicable reason seems favoured by some pakeha parents is Kiore. It appears to be reserved exclusively for girls. Here again, it is not much use trying to switch off the mother on to more fitting Maori words. No use to tell them it means a rat. They will have Kiore.”