DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 June 1936, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[per press association.]

SINGER’S TOUR AUCKLAND, June 12

Richard Crooks, a leading tenor in the New York Metropolitan Opera Company, is travelling to Australia by the Mariposa with his wife, son, and daughter. They are returning to New Zealand later. Crooks said the Metropolitan Opera just had the most successful season in history, largely due to broadcasting of leading artists in sponsored programmes. .For ten broadcast performances of the Operas, the- company received 150,000 dollars.

STOWAWAY DEPORTED. AUCKLAND, June 11.

The half-caste Samoan stowaway on the Aorangi, whose name is Pila Wilkes, a seaman, 20 years of age, pleaded guilty at the Police Court to a charge that, being a prohibited immigrant, he landed in New Zealand without a permit. The police said that Wilkes stowed away to Vancouver, and was there placed on the Aorangi, but the Fijian authorities would not allow him to land in Fiji. He was continuing the voyage, to Sydney when he left the vessel at Auckland.

The Magistrate issued a deportation order.

MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED. NEW PLYMOUTH, June 11

One man was killed and another was seriously injured at Oakura tonight. They were found lying on the road near their damaged motor-cycle in circumstances that suggested that they had been struck by a car. The dead man was Leonard Blanchard, a farmhand, employed in the district. Thomas Jury, also a young farmhand, was admitted to hospital with injuries to his legs and chest. He is in a serious condition.

The police have not yet traced the other vehicle involved in the collision.

STRUCK BY TRUCK. CHRISTCHURCH, Juqe 11

■ Mrs Davis, aged 68, of Hornby, is in the Christchurch Hospital, in a serious condition, suffering from severe head injuries, after being struck bv a motor truck on the Main South Road. Hornby, at 7.20 this evening.

Mrs; Davis was walking on the road arm in arm with another womaq, when a motor truck, driven by Albert Hopkins, of Tinwald, overtook her, and struck her from behind. She was thrown clear, but fell heavily.