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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 December 1934, Page 8

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WANGANUI, December 17.’ A head-on collision is reported to havd occurred between two goods trains this morning, between Whangamomona and Pohokura. The engines and a. number of trucks were derailed. Two firemen were slightly injured. Details are not yet available here. SYDNEY, December 17. Arrived: Erlangen from Dunedin. Arrived at Newcastle, Dalcroy from Auckland. LONDON, December 16. Arrived at San Francisco, Maunganui; at Honolulu, Golden Bear. Sailed: Northumberland, from Liver pool. AUCKLAND. December 17. Cadland was scratched for the Railway Handicap at 12.5 to-day. CONSTANTINOPLE, December 17. Twenty were killed and a hundred were injured, also twenty-five villages were destroyed by an earthquake in the interior of Anatolio. The shocks were strongest near Tchapakdjour, between Diarbekr and Mpuche. The Government is organising rescues, and is sending urgently needed food. AUCKLAND, December 17. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest to-day on William Ferguson Wilson, 57, who was drowned while swimming in Tamaki River yesterday. He waved to a friend from the water, but a few minutes later, he was seen to be face downwards. Restorative measures failed. AUCKLAND, December 17. Sales: Mataki 2/1, King Solomon 3/9, Renown Coal pref 2/-, Taupiri 17/6, Milne and Choyce 20/0, Cement 32/3, South British 96/6, Colonial Sugar £42 10/-, Bond’s 1940 £lO3 10/-. INVERCARGILL, December 17. An Australian, Arthur Daniel Lee, pleaded guilty at the Police Court, to stowing away on the Maheno’s last trip from Melbourne, and to being a prohibited immigrant. He was ordered to pay the amount of the fare, in default seven days’ imprisonment, and to be deported. ■— LONDON, December 16, “The Times’s” Sofia correspondent says: The authorities at Hazkovo, discovered an alleged extensive Communist conspiracy. They arrested 350 soldiers and 175 civilians, and seized documents revealing a revolutionary plan to murder many officers and non-commissioned officers. AUCKLAND, December 17.

A sentence of six months’ imprisonment was passed on Leonard Janies Masters, 33, for fraudulently omitting to account for money collected for his employers. The police said he had been operating in this way for two years, and the audit showed he had stolen £226, though the charges covered only £3O. His wages was £4/9/-. The Magistrate said it was not a case for probation. VIENNA, December 16. Two members of the Auxiliary Corps were shot dead at night, it is believed, by Austrian Legionaries, camping asross the Bavarian frontier. Auxiliaries patrolling the border challenged three youths, one of whom prepared to resist. The auxiliaries reached for their weapons, but the boys were quicker,' and fatally shot one auxiliary in the head, and the other in the stomach, and escaped. WELLINGTON, December 17. The annual meeting of the Gear Meat Co., Ltd., was presided over by Mr Allan Strang. He explained that the balance-sheet was presented in somewhat different form from that of previous years, to comply with the terms of the new Companies Act, and also the Supreme Court order confirming the reduction of the capital of the Company to £230,000. He said the Uadance-sheet clearly shewed there was an additional reserve over the balance-sheet figures, amounting to £59,294, this being the difference between tlje figure £30,291 shqwn in the balance and the par value of this Government stock, which was £89,685. It was his intention before vacating the chair at the next meeting of directors in January, to move that this stock be written up to par value, and the difference transferred to the reserve. The bulk of the Company’s meat went to London, and its stocks there to-day would be easily sold out before the new season’s shipments of any size were on the market. Pro- i perties and plant were in good order, 1 and everything was in readiness for s the season, which was very much i later in starting. The motion for the ‘ adoption of the report and balance- 1 sheet was seconded by Sir Francis 1 3c 11. The retiring directors, Sir f Harold Beauchamp, Messrs H. W. 1 Gibbs and H. S. Riddiford, were uh- t aniniously re-elected, and were also t the auditors, Messrs E. W. Hunt and « E. R. Dymock. A vote of thanks to t the staff was acknowledged by the General Manager, who spoke of the difficult year passed through, and his recent visit to London, and the hand- 1 ling there of the Company’s products, i