DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 June 1936, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[per press association.] INJURED MOTORISTS BLENHEIM, June 17. George Gordon Davidson, the driver of the car in which Leonard Leslie Hart was killed, when it collided with a lorry near Wairau valley, is still unconscious. His brother, James Mories Davidson, single, who was also in the car, has now been admitted to hospital, with internal injuries. MECHANIC AND CAR. WELLINGTON, June 17. Charged with obtaining £l6O from Independent Motor Sales, Ltd., by falsely representing a car in his possession was his own and unencumbered, James Lawrence _ Holden, 23, mechanic, pleaded not guilty, and was committed for trial. It is alleged that he disposed of a car held on timepayment, representing that he had paid cash for it. ESCAPEES RECAPTURED. AUCKLAND, June 16. Wet through, after spending a night in the rain in the Kaimanawa Ranges, the two prisoners who escaped last night from the Hautu Prison Camp, near Tokanu, were recaptured by two warders in the ranges this morning. The fugitives, John Booth Prohl, aged 26, and Richard De Thierry, aged 23, were tracked by the warders, who found them twenty miles from the camp. They offered no resistance.

RANGITATA BRIDGE. TIMARU, June 17. The new railway bridge over the Rangitata River, replacing the wooden structure which has been in use for 60 years, was placed in commission yesterday’, when it was crossed by the north-bound express. The new bridge, is of iron, with ferro-concrete pillars, is 2000 feet long, and is at an elevation of about 12 feet higher than the old bridge, thus reducing the dip at the north end, to a considerable extent. R.S.A. CONFERENCE. WELLINGTON, June 17. The New Zealand R.S.A. Conference was opened by the Dominion President, Hon. W. Perry, who welcomed the delegates and introduced the Mayor,, who declared the conference open, and wished it success. The adoption of the annual report was moved by Mr. W. E. Leadley, Rev. J. M. Stewart seconding, but the adoption was held over to enable a committee to report on the Veterans’ Home at Auckland.

Committees were set up to consider remits sent by r branches.

QUEEN’S PORTRAIT WELLINGTON, June 15. . A decision to launch a national campaign for subscriptions from women, for the presentation of a portrait of Queen Mary to the National Art Gallery, was made at a large meeting of women to-day. The Mayoress of Wellington (Mrs. T. C. A. Hislop) presided. She said it was proposed that a shilling subscription fund be opened, and it was decided that mayoresses of other cities and towns be invited to co-operate. Viscountess Galway is to be invited to accept the office of patron.

N.I. RAIN. MASTERTON, June 16. Heavy and continuous rain has fallen since the early hours of the morning, and is causing some apprehension of floods. At eight o’clock to-night water was just beginning to flow oyer the main highway near Waiohine Bridge on the Masterton-Wellington road, while two rather large slips are reported on the Featherston side oi the Rimutaka Road, which is passable for one-way traffic. There is also a washout to the edge of the bitumen for a distance of about 12 feet in the same vicinity. The Whareama River at Tinui is reported to be running very high, and other streams on the East Coast are in heavy flood. BUILDING FATALITY. WELLINGTON, June 17. After hearing the evidence at the inquest into the death of William Henry Gardiner, clerk of works on the new railway station, the Coroner. Mr Gilbertson, said deceased had apparently straddled a wheelbarrow in passing along the platform, and was caught unawares. He had taken a

risk and nobody was to blame. The evidence was to the effect that Gardiner was tripped when the barrow swung out on a hoist worked from below. There was no one at the top to give warning, but Gardiner was familiar with the working oi the hoist, which had been in operation for eighteen months. IRISH PRIMATE. AUCKLAND, June 17. Scholar and author, with a worldwide reputation, the Most Rev. C. F. Darcy, Anglican Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of All Ireland, arrived by the Wanganella from Sydney, accompanied by his chaplain, Canon Blackwood-Price.

They are leaving for Ireland, via Panama, on July 9. They have been attending the centenary of Bishop Broughton at Sydney, marking a hundred years’ episcopacy in Australia. They informed an interviewer, they were satisfied with the spirit of the Church in Australia. There were crowded congregations, a considerable proportion of which were young people.

KILLED ON RAILWAY. AUCKLAND, June 16. Run over by the wheels of a carriage of a suburban passenger train at Otahuhu Station, early this morning, Richard Edelsten, aged 54, an unemployed motor painter, of Otahuhu, was killed instantaneously. Edelsten had left his home shortly

before 8 a.m., to travel to Auckland by train. As the 8.18 train was moving slowly from the island platform, Edelsten was seen running across the lines of the eastern sidings towards the rear carriage. On feeling unusual bumps, the guard signalled for the train to stop, and the body of Edelston was found on the line. The wheels of the last carriage had passed over his chest. Edelsten, who leaves a wife and two children, was a returned soldier, he having served with the Australian forces during the Great War.