DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 December 1934, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] SCOUT’S BRAVERY. FEILDING, December 17. For bravery in attenipting to rescue a girl from drowning in the Manawatu River last summer, George Grindrod, a local Boy Scout, publicly received the Scout’s silver cross medal. Only six of these medals so far have been presented in New Zealand WATERSIDER KILLED. NAPIER, December 17. A seventy-year-old watersider, John Shearer, received fatal injuries as the result of falling down a hold on the vessel Benreoch late on Saturday afternoon. Shearer was engaged in replacing- the hatch covering on the lower hold when he tripped and fell 15 feet into the hold. CHARITY BOX STOLEN. WELLINGTON, December 17. Taking advantage of densely-throng-ed streets following the 'Grenadier Guards Bands parade, a thief made a hurried entrance and exit from an optician’s shop, getting away with the Institute for the Blind collection box, which contained between £2 and £3. An assistant heard a noise and rushed in from the back, but was too late, the box having been wrenched from the wall, and the thief gone. A similar box disappeared recently from the shop of an optician in Petone. ARRIVALS FROM SYDNEY AUCKLAND, December IS. Two liners arrived from Sydney, today. The Monterey brought 545 passengers, including 315, who disembarked at Auckland. The Marama brought 217, mostly Australians and New Zealanders, arriving for Christmas visits. A team of American golf professionals is returning from Australia. One| of them, Leo Deigel, won £ll5O in prize money and James Thompson won) £ 1000 by his victory in the open cham-1 pionship. Joe Ezar and Joe Kirkwood are going together on a tour in the Orient.

MOTORISTS INJURED. WELLINGTON, December 18. A car left the road shortly before midnight near Taita Gorge, and struck concrete fence posts. The three occupants were rendered unconscious, and were attended to by Dr. Barron and taken to the hospital. The driver was M. Hollard, of Petone, and the passengers A. J. White (Miramar), and Thomas Allen, Hawkestone Street, Wellington. White has a fractured right -wrist and injury to the head. Allen has a severe wound in the head, a possible fracture of the jaw, concussion, and shock. Hollard has injuries to the head, right hand, and left thigh, which is fractured, and severe shock. LINESMAN’S FALL. FEILDING, December 17. Harold Smith, an employee of the Manawatu Power Board, is now in hospital in a serious condition, suffering from shock. Smith was working yesterday with a gang under the direction of the engineer of the board on repairs. The lower lines had been disconnected, but the lines on the top poles were not. Smith was on a pole re-straining the dead lines when his shoulder made

contact With an 11,000-volt line. He fell, but was caught in the dead lines, which prevented his fall to the ground 25ft. below. His comrades lowered him by ropes and he was taken to hospital in an unconscious condition. Smith is married, with eight children. CHRISTCHURCH TRAMWAYS. CHRISTCHURCH, December 17. A surplus of £575 has been shown in the revenue account of the Christchurch tramways for the four weeks ending December 2, according to a report submitted at. the meeting toklay of the Christchurch Tramway Board. Mr. J. K. Archer, Chairman, said that the last four weeks had been exceedingly good. The same period last year produced a deficit of £267, but this year there was a, surplus of £575. This report was very interesting, because it meant that rhe Board had shown a surplus on the month’s working for the first time since January 31, 1932. “We can only hope that the public will continue to patronise the trams,” said Mr. Archer. AUCKLAND WEATHER. AUCKLAND, December 17. After a day of sultry and enervating weather, a north-east wind suddenly veered to the south early this evening, and, while heavy and scattered showers were falling in the city, and some of the suburbs, the residents of Mission Bay, Kohimarama and St. Helier’s Bay witnessed the exciting spectacle of a miniature whirlwind whipping the sea into spume, and tossing dinghies about like corks.

Sheets of spray 20 feet in height were flung upward from the surface of the sea as the whirlwind drove along its path, and left in its wake a broiling stretch of water in which dinghies tossed -wildly, and launches and yachts strained at their moorings. A rowing bpat was picked up like a toy and turned over. As it approached St. Helier’s Bay, the intensity of the disturbance increased. No serious damage was caused to the pleasure craft.