DOMINION NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 October 1939, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WIDOW AWARDED DAMAGES WELLINGTON, October 17. Damages amounting to £1,850, and £l9/8/- funeral expenses were awarded to Evelyn Beatrice Beattie. 26, widow of Archie Beattie, 29, by a jury of 12 in the Supreme Court, Wellington. to-day/ The case was heard before Mr. Justice Smith, and was a sequel to a fatal accident in Seatouu on the morning of February 18 last. At the time of his death Beattie was a motor driver employed by the transport division of the Post and Telegraph Department. BEQUESTS TO UNIVERSITY DUNEDIN, October 18. Bequests mentioned at a meeting of the Otago University Council were from the late Mrs. YVilleby, a share in Ashburn Hall, to be used for teaching psychiatry; the late G. C. Proudfoot, £2OOO for a science research scholarship; while an anonymous donor had given £250 for the Studholme House building fund. The registrar reported that the Donald Reid bequest of £5OOO, made in 1919 for a Chair of Economics, now amounted to £12,481. with considerable increments in future as life interests expire. BABY’S BODY' IN DRAIN. WI-lAKATANE, October 18. Police inquiries are being made into the discovery of the naked decomposed body of a newly-born female child. It was found in a drain near Whakatane. Medical opinion is that the child, which had breathed, had been in the drain from four to eight weeks, but, owing to its condition, it is difficult to say whetiier it was a Maori or European child, though the doctor was inclined to believe it was Maori. There were no signs of violence. Investigation is complicated >y the fact that, the drain is deep and wide, and runs for several miles, and the infant may have been placed in it at any point.

FIRE AT WANGANUI. WANGANUI, October 19. A fire in the Wanganui City Council Chambers building, in which the offices of the City Engineer and staff are located, early this morning, started in the supper-room and a room on the ground floor used by the traffic inspectors and draughtsmen. Both were badly damaged. Much damage was done in the Engineer’s office, and drawings were burnt. Insurances on the building are £1,400, and on the fittings £445. N. Annabell, surveyor, lost drawings, also his own instruments.