DOMINION NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 November 1939, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS

[per press association.]

BREWERY WORKERS’ AWARD WELLINGTON, November 1

Little progress had been made when the hearing of an application for a new award for brewery workers in all industrial districts except Nelson and Otago-Southland concluded in Conciliation Council to-day. Agreement was reached on several minor clauses; but not on clauses dealing with hours and wages, which were referred to the Court.

CHILD KILLED BY LORRY. WELLINGTON, November 1

Fatal head injuries were suffered by Leonie Crawford, aged five, of Ngahauranga, when she ran into a motorlorry on the Hutt Road at Ngahauranga this afternoon. The child and her mother alighted from a ’bus, walked round the back of it, and were crossing the road when the chlid ran into the back of the lorry, and died shortly after.

CROSSING FATALITY. AUCKLAND, November 1

From head injuries which he suffered when the motor-car he was driving was involved in a collision with a train on Friday, Thomas Hughes, of Frankton, 50, a builder, died in the Waikato Hospital this afternoon. Hughes did not recover consciousness after the accident, which ocurred at the Seddon Street erbssing, Hamilton. Hughes, who was the only occupant of the car, is survived by his widow and one daughter.

MINERS RESUME WORK

HAMILTON, November 2.

The miners of the Macdonald and and Glen Afton mines resumed work to-day, 150 men from Glen Afton; having struck, yesterday, in sympathy with the Macdonald miners, who struck as a protest against the condition of the road leading to the mine. An agreement to repair and maintain the road has been reached between the Mines Department and the Raglan •County Council. AIR-MAIL DELAYED. WELLINGTON, November 2’. The postal division of the General Post Office confirmed to-day the cabled message that delays had occurred in the delivery of air-mail posted in New Zealand late in August and the first days in September. The delay, it is stated, was due to war conditions, which necessitated the temporary transfer of air-mail to steamer transit from Sydney onward. The date of arrival in England would be approximately that mentioned in the cablegram. Later air-mails have not, so far as is .known, been transferred to surface transport. FALSE DECLARATIONS. AUCKLAND, November 2. Four charges of making false declarations’to obtain benefit under the Employment Promotion Act, and four more charges of making false declarations under the Social Security Act, were admitted by a labourer, Hugh Glover, in the Police Court, before Mr. Molding, S.M. The police stated that Glover disguised the fact that he obtained employment, and used a false name.

On one charge, Glover was fined the amount he defrauded the Depaptm.ent, £3O/2, and on another he was sentenced to two weeks’ imprisonment. “That is the lightest sentence I can conscientiously impose,” said the S.M. MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE FAILS. WANGANUI, November 1. “This case is of some importance, both for the accused and the general public,” said Mr. Justice Smith, in summing up to the jury in the Supreme Court to-day the evidence brought by the Crown in support of a charge of manslaughter against the proprietor of an amusement park, Walter Taylor. The jury found accused not guilty. The case arose as the result of the death of a boy, Eric Charles Hawkins, who died in the amusement parlour when he was shot by a companion, who pointed what he thought to be an unloaded rifle at Hawkins, and pulled the trigger. The Crown alleged that the proprietor of the parlour had failed to take reasonable precautions, thereby committing the crime of manslaughter.