DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 May 1938, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] HORSE KILLS CHILD. OTAKI. May IX. Thu two-years-old-child of Mr and Mrs Sage, was accidentally killed at Te ILoro. last, evening. The mollnr ] laced the child on the. ground, while she shut the gate. A horse walked over him. crushing his chest. ASHBURTON RIVER. ASHBURTON, May 17'I he Ashburton County Council has accepted the Government’s plan to spend . 1224.500 on condition that the ( i.unty provides another £5,50(1 of the cost of the clearance of willows and other obstructions in the Ashburton River and the erection of stopbanks.

CHILD’S INJURIES DARGAVILLE. May Is. A five-year old child, who, with the mother. Mrs. ,1. Dropulich. alighted from a bus on the Te Kopuru main highway, was struck by a passing-car. The child was taken to Northern W'airoa hospital, with serious head injuries. and both thighs broken. Its condition is serious. ATTEM PTED CON VERSION. WELLINGTON. May IS. Stating he was quite convinced by the evidence that it was merely due to the vigilance of a police officer that accused did not succeed in his purpose, Mr. Luxford. S.M., to-day sentenced Denis Anthony Frankiyn, 2-1, tailor’s cutter, to a month in gaol, on a charge of attempted conversion of a. motor-cycle value at £lO5. KILLED BY BULL. BLENHEIM. May 17. Charlie Sheridan, aged XL of Spring Creek, a farmer, died in the hospital to which he was admitted last week suffering from fractured ribs and other injuries caused by an attack by a Jersey bull. j The Coroner (Mr. E. J. Hill) returned a verdict that death was caused by heart failure, following the shock of the attack. It. was disclosed that Sheridan went out. alone to round up cows for milking, and was charged and knocked down by the bull. He escaped under a fence and managed to return to his house unassisted.

I*RES B YT ERIAN CH U R Cll. TIMARU. May 17. A largely attended congregational meeting of the Chalmers Presbyterian Church to-night decided to extend a unanimous call to the Rev. Malcolm Wilson, ALA., a New Zealander, who is at present minister at the York Presbyterian Church. England. Mr Wilson graduated at Otago University and took his training at Knox College, Dunedin. He then went to Westminster College, Cambridge, to complete his training. On returning to New Zealand Mr Wilson was minister at Huntly, Waikato, for three years, and he then returned to England, For the last live years he has been -ininister at York.

DARGAVILLE ’DROME. DARGAVILLE, May 18. Before leaving for Whangarei, this morning, the Postmaster-General inspected the proposed site of the aerodrome, which has been surveyed and reported upon by the Public Works Department. The scheme is in two sections, and entails taking, firstly, 80 acres of land at present unoccupied, valued at about £3OO. It will give three run-offs. The second development takes an additional area of land valued at about £2OOO. This will give runways up to a thousand’ yards. The Minister stressed the need for

[I oroughs such as Dargaville. of establishing aerodromes. He suggested rhe first, step should be the formation c f an Airport. Board, comprising the Borough Council and the adjoining Counties. I HOME FOR CRIPPLES. 1 AUCKLAND, May 17. "I would like to see the M ilson Home for Crippled Children at Taka,'puna become an institution for pati-it-nts from the whole of the North Island." said the chairman of the Aucklland Hospital Board (Rev. W. C. 'Wood) to-day. addressing the Provin'rial Federation of Women's Institutes. I “My opinion is that the Wilson 'Home should be enlarged in scope." !.\lr. Wood said. “1 believe it to he mistake to leave it io the care of one hospital board." He suggested that, all North Island board should co-operate in the management and extend the home and contribute towards its maintenance, and added that .£lO.OOO was being spent on a new therapeutic department. the mily one of its kind in the Dominion. “Like a birdcage full of joyous songsters.” was his description of the home. "We have received 51 children since the home was opened at the end of August, and have been able to discharge 17 of them. All have not gone out. 100 per cent, recovered, but all have materially benefited, and muscles which .were paralysed have been brought back to action. The results have been wonderful. This is due. to the environment, as well as treatment."