DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1938, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

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CHILD KILLED BY CAB AUCKLAND, August 8. Maureen Taylor, aged 12, a Northcote Convent School pupil, ran into a passing motor-car outside ilie school and was killed. Iler father. Mt. I • W. Taylor, is president of the New Zealand Commercial Travellers Association.

INTOXICATED DRIVERS. AUCKLAND, August S. < On a. charge, of being intoxicated while in chargo of a. car, John Walter Monk, aged 25, a railway yardman, whs scntonco<l to U-L\ wooks impiison ment with hard labour, and for unlawfully converting a. car to bis ovn use he was placed on probation for a year. William George Cook, aged 118. a labourer, who admitted intoxication m charge, of a <‘av. v.ms sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment with hard labour.

YOUNG MAN SHOT HAMILTON. August 8

A serious injury was suffered by Gordon Frederick Marks, aged when he was struck by a bullet accidentally discharged from a penrifle. Marks, who is a resident of Onehunga. was sitting in the bow of a boat on one of the back waters of Lake Waikare. Ohinewai. when a gunafter being loaded by a friend, accidentallv discharged, the bullet lodging in Marks’s chest. Up was taken to hospital in a serious condition.