DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 July 1936, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PER press association.]

TRAGIC JOURNEY AUCKLAND, July 20

A tragic home-coming awaited Mrs. J. Ramsay, formerly of Auckland, and now of the Malay States, who arrived by the Niagara, after a hurried dash from Singapore to her father’s bedside.

Her father, L. A. Dunningham, of Mount Eden, who had been ill for some time, died as the vessel was coming up the Hauraki Gulf.

Mrs. Ramsay was advised by cable of her father’s grave illness, and in the endeavour to reach Auckland in the least possible time she flew with her infant daughter, over the Empire Air Service route from Singapore to Brisbane, and thence to Sydney, where she arrived a day before the Niagara sailed.

MOTOR CYCLIST'S DEATH NEW PLYMOUTH, July 20

The death of Leonard Wylie Blanchard, aged 26. and serious injury to Thomas Jury, through a collision of their motor cycle and a truck, allegedly driven by Samuel Edward George Hawke, aged 46, resulted in the appearance of Hawke in the Court to-day, charged with causing the death of Blanchard by negligently driving a truck on the main road at Oakura on June 11. Only eleven of the 30 witnesses for the Crown were heard to-day. The case will be continued to-morrow. The inquest, into the death of Blanchard is being taken in conjunction with the hearing.

Blanchard and Jury were found lying on the road beside their motor cycle. The other vehicle allegedly concerned in the collision did not stop. It was not till some time after the accident that Hawke was arrested. Elaborate plans and enlarged photographs of the locality, and the mudguard of the motor vehicle were among the exhibits in Court.