DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 February 1938, Page 8

DOMINION ITEMS

[PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] FOUND SHOT. CHRISTCHURCH, February 27. John Brissett Clarke, 16, residing at Addington, was, found in the Waimakarirri riverbed, near the Harewood golf links on Saturday evening with a bullet wound in the neck. He died in the Christchurch Hospital this morning. POLO PLAYER INJURED. HASTINGS, February 28. Serious injuries were sustained by lan MacKcnzie, of Havelock North, when his pony fell during a polo match, on Saturday. MaeKenzie was removed to hospital, suffering from severe concussion, add he was still unconscious this morning. ELDERLY MAN’S DEATH. WELLINGTON, February 28. The body of Arthur Stephen Macshene, aged about 60 years, was found in the harbour, near Te Aro baths. It had apparently not been in the water for many hours. BOY DROWNED. AUCKLAND, February 27. A hoy. aged nine, was drowned, and his two companions were saved only by the prompt, action of bystanders when a frail sailing craft capsized in Freeman’s Bay. The victim was Albert Henry Metcalfe. GUARD FALLS FROM TRAIN WELLINGTON. February 28. A compound fracture and severe lacerated wounds of the right arm, head injuries, and shock, were suffered by J. Cox, railway guard, when he fell from the Wairarapa-Wellington mail train, when it. was passingthrough the Maungaroa tunnel, at 8.50 o’clock this morning. SHOCK FROM RADIO SET. CHRISTCHURCH, February 26. While handling his wireless set, Victor James Hunt, 40, of 19, Cumberland .Street, received a. severe electric shock last evening, and was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital in an unconscious condition. He recovered later, and this morning he was reported to be progressing satisfactorily. Ho is not on the seriously-ill list. BOOKMAKERS FINED. WANGANUI, Feb. 28. As a sequel to a police raid, on Saturday, on what is known as “Bookies” Hill, four men, F. J. Lapouple. John. D. Grantham, W. R. Sundborn and David Tuffin, were charged before Mr. Salmon, this morning with carrying on the business of bookmakers. All ' pleaded guilty. Lapouple was fined £l5, Grantham £5, and Sunborn and Tuffin £lO each.

BODY IN SURF, j DUNEDIN, February 27. 5 Bathers at Brighton Beach this afternoon recovered from the breakers the body of Ivan George Berryman, 15, . who was drowned at Ocean near ) Brighton, the preceding Sunday after- . noon. The bodj r was found near the _ mouth of the Kaikorai stream only half a mile away from where the drowning occurred. Berryman was a . son of Mr. G. A. Berryman, of Granj ville Street, Mornington, Dunedin. r DROWNED IN CREEK. WHANGAREI, February 28. John Alfred Moon, 19, of Burnley Terrace, Auckland, was. drowned in a - creek at Oakleigh, yesterday. De- - ceased, with two others, went- swim- - ming, deceased diving. He was seen swimming naturally, but it was then noticed that' his head was under water, and he disappeared. It is thought that he struck a snag on the • river bottom. The body was recover- ‘ ed, two hours later. An inquest was 1 opened, and was adjourned. INTOXICATED DRIVERS WELLINGTON, February 28. - In the Magistrate’s Court, before Mr • Hewitt, S.M., James William Allah carrier, 54, was fined £2O, and Thomas William Cox, labourer, 35, was fined £lO, and his license was cancelled for a year, for being drunk while in charge of motor-vehicles. .In Allan’s case, the fine is to be paid at the- rate of £5 per week, and Cox’s at £1 per, week. Counsel for Cox said that defendant though under the influence of liquor had driven safely home, and had been arrested at his own gate.