LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 June 1937, Page 8

LATE MESSAGES

WANGANUI, June 23.

An inquest is being held concerning the death of John Oscar Bovey, who died on’ April 23, following burns received at Kempthorne Prosser’s fertilizer works, Aramoho, during a sulphur fire. The evidence indicates that the fire started in the elevator room. A belt had come off and the men were engaged in replacing it when they apparently released their hold, causing it to slip back. One witness stated that he saw a spark, and immediately the place was enveloped in smoke and flame and sulphur fumes, i here was a good deal of fine sulphur dust at the time.

WELLINGTON, June 23

Pleading guilty to the theft of £6 5/- in money, and making out a false receipt for £B/5/-, Victor John Peddie, 29, motor-driver, was committed for sentence.

Michael Dominic O’Rourke, 25, taxidriver, was committed for sentence on a charge of carnal knowledge of a girl aged 15, and Lionel Hart Warren, 52, labourer, on a charge of incest. Coroner Gilbertson to-day found, after the inquest, that the death of Ronald John Buck, 21, machinist at the Prestige Hosiery Mills, was due •to blood-poisoning, following a wound’ in the hand. Deceased, it appeared from the evidence, told a fellowworker that some oil used in the factory had got into a cut. HOLLYWOOD, June 22. John and Elain© Barrymore have been reconciled. .The interlocutory decree granted on April 23, will be dismissed, and the pair will remarry.