DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 August 1934, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[vm PRIMM ASSOCIATION.] TRUCK-DRIVER KILLED. ASHBURTON, August 28. Basil Henry Muller, skin buyer, aged about 35 years, died in the Ashburton Hospital, to-day. He sustained an ex- ( tensive fracture of the skull as the re- ( suit of a collision with a tram while , he was driving a motor truck at Chertsey. He was married, with four children. i CYCLIST KILLED. AUCKLAND, August 29. Ronald Hanken, 15, was killed at a railway crossing at New Lynn about noon, to-day, when a train crashed into a bicycle he was riding. Claude McLeod, 14, who was doublebanking on the bicycle with Hanken, escaped uninjured. ASHBURTON COMPETITIONS. ASHBURTON, August 29. _ The chief contest at the Competitions, Tucker Memorial Trophy, piano players, resulted: Marjorie McDowell (Dunedin) test 95, sight 90, own selection 89 —274: Audrey Ruddock (Ashburton) 86 —87 —92 —265. There were five competitors. The test for next year is Liszts Sonata in B Minor. STATE SAWMILL. AUCKLAND. August 28. Efforts which have been made to obtain reconsideration of the Railwavs Board’s decision to close the Sta'te sawmill at Mamaku are apparently doomed to failure. Men working in the bush, and on the tramlines, about 22 in number, were dismissed 10 days ago, and, according to advices received from Mamaku, the mill itself will cease cutting on Wednesday night thus throwing another 30 or 40 men out of work. WRONG BODY. WELLINGTON, August 28. Reports have been current during the past few days that, following on the deaths of two patients in the Wellington Hospital, a mistake has occurred, with the result that undertakers removed the wrong bodies. The mistake was discovered before the burial of the bodies. It is stated by the Hospital authorities that the occurrence is being inquired into, with a view to avoiding the possibility of any similar mistakes in future. “STICK THEM UP.” NEW PLYMOUTH. August 29. Answering a knock on the door, late on Friday night, R. Goddin, draper, was confronted by a youth, whose face was masked with a scarf, with barrelshaped object in his hand, and was told to “stick them up.” Goddin closed with the intruder who escaped, dropping "the weapon which proved to be of bamboo. It is understood that a 17-year-old youth will appear in the Police Court on Monday as the result of police investigations.

WIDOW’S COMPENSATION. CHRISTCHURCH, August 28. Damages amounting to £1.425 were awarded Mary Helen Broms by a special jury in the Supreme Court today. The plaintiff’s husband, Jacob William Broms. who was employed by Davis Gelatine (N.Z.) Ltd., was killed in an accident at the Company’s factory in Woolston last December. Plaintiff sought £2OOO damages on behalf of herself and three children from the company. The jury found that defendant company had been guilty of negligence, and that plaintiff had not been guilty of contributory negligence. WOUNDS IN HEAD. AUCKLAND, August 27. The strange death of an old age pensioner, Hugh Davies, 73 years of age, is being investigated by detectives here to-night. Davies was found dying in a shed in the garden of his home in Murdoch Street, Grey Lynn, about 6 o’clock this evening. He had several wounds in his head and died before the arrival of an ambulance. A blood-stained hammer was near the body. Detectives took possession of a note. The matter was reported to the Coroner, who has ordered a post mortem examination.