DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1936, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

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DOCTOR’S INJURY. CARTERTON, July 23.

Dr. G. Stanley Sharp, of Featherston, when operating last month, pricked his finger with a needle. All went well until Saturday last, when poison started to track up his arm, and it is not known at present whether the arm can be saved.

FATAL FALL INTO VAT. AUCKLAND, July 23

As the result of burns and shock, when he fell into a vat of hot caustic soda, yesterday, Leslie Russell, . 29, married, of Ponsonby, died in hospital, this morning. An inquest will be held this afternoon.

SIIEEPOWNERS’ FEDERATION. WELLINGTON. July 22.

The following officers were elected at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Sheepowners’ and Farmers Federation: President: IT. D. Acland (Canterbury), (re-elected); VicePresident: J. S. Jessop (Wairoa), Hon. Treasurer, E. Hay (Canterbury). Auditor: A. M. McKellar (Christchurch).

GIFT TO NAPIER. NAPIER, July 23

Through the munificence of a wellknown citizen, Mr. T. Parker, Napier will shortly be provided with a handsome addition to the scheme of improvements under which the Marine Parade foreshore, is being developed. On behalf of the citizens, the Mayor. Mr. C. 0. Morse, has accepted a gift of £lOOO from Mr. Parker for the installation of an electric fountain, the largest in New Zealand,, and one oi the few of the kind to be found in the world, on a. site near the northern end of the garden area.

WELLINGTON ART. WELLINGTON, July 23

Three pictures by New Zealand artists, “Shipping at Wellington Harbour,” by Sydney L. Thompson, “Wellington Harbour,” by Archibald F. Nicoll, and “Lambton Harbour from Khandallah Track,” by Nugent Welch, have now been completed, and should prove a welcome addition to the National Art Gallery, to which they will be presented by the Wellington Harbour Board, which commissioned the painters to paint them for that purpose. The paintings had been greatly admired by all who have seen them, and were officially handed over to the trustees of the National Art Gallery at a ceremony last night.

CHILD DROWNED

CHRISTCHURCH, July 23

An inquest into the death of Kevin Spray Mills, aged two years, who was drowned when he fell into a concrete pond yesterday at his parents’ home at Fitzgerald Street, was opened before the Coroner, Mr F. F. Reid, this afternoon. A verdict of accidental drowning was returned. Mrs Bertie Florence Mills, mother of the child, said that at two o’clock on July 21 she was giving afternoon tea to visitors when her two other children, aged three and five years, came into the house. She asked where the third child was, hut could get no satisfactory answer. Rushing out of the house she found the child lying in a pond ISin. deep.