DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1939, Page 11

DOMINION ITEMS

[PER prebb association.] OLD MAN MISSING OAMARU, December 10. The Oamaru police are searching for William Doak, 71, who has been missing from liis home at Totara since Thursday. HARBOUR FATALITY. AUCKLAND, December 10. When he fell into the water near the western viaduct on Saturday afternoon a. labourer who lived ori the barge Samoa was drowned. Although a passer-by dived in arid recovered hisj body, efforts at resuscitation were, j fruitless. The victims was Janies i Meikle, single, 34.

SAFES BLOWN OPEN WELLINGTON, December 11. Two safes in the premises of the Hutt Valley Electric-Power Board* were blown open, during’the week-end,! ■and about £ 180 was stoieri. A ntiirib'ef j of cqsh-boxes were also broken open. ; The strong-room is of the usual type! with a large steel door. Inside it is an- . other safe, set in concrete. The outer door was blown open wi'tli a force that cracked the surrounding concrete. The inside safe , was treated similarly, and i in botli cases the shock was sufficient! to twist the heavy steel and to scatter i the packing material about the floor.' The thieves eyen took Camp Fund money, which was subscribed .by .tern- ,- ployees of the board, to purchase Christmas comforts for fellow-em-ployees serving with the forces.