DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 January 1934, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] BEAR OF~OAKLAND. WELLINGTON, January 8. i The Bear of Oakland is expected to sail for Dunedin on Thursday. Her delay is due to the construction of a new hatch combing. One of the ship’s company stated that- another aeroplane carrying two men, will probably be loaded at Dunedin. The ship is now taking aboard fresh and preserved

food. CAUGHT IN SHAFTING. GISBORNE, January 8. At the inquest of Alexander Mcßae, who died as the result of injuries sustained on December 29, Maurice'Gemmel Shepherd, stated the deceased went to the power house which supplied a station with electricity. As deceased had not returned, witness went there. He heard a moan. The deceased told him to shut the power off. Witness found that Mcßae was caught round some shafting by his I

clothing. He had been spun round, z Then his feet had caught under the shed, preventing any further movement. A verdict of accidental death was returned. MAORI KILLED THAMES, January 9. A half-cast Maori, Allan Davis, 55, was fatally injured at Tapu, twelve miles up the Thames coast. Deceased was engaged with another Maori sending logs down a wire chute, when he jwas struck by a log and sustained a compound fracture of the left thigh and wounds in the back, head and forearm. He died during his removal by the ambulance to the hospital. Deceased was a member of the first contingent of the pioneer battalion of N.Z.E.F. He leaves three grown-up sons at North Auckland. ,His wife ' died in the influenza epidemic in 1918.!