DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 June 1940, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PEE PBESB ASSOCIATION.] KILLED BY CAR. Wellington, June 28. Struck by a car on the Cuba Street ramp at Lower Hutt this evening, David Patterson Ferguson, married, of 79 Victoria Street, Lower Hutt, received injuries from which he died on the way to hospital. PIG MEAT. WHANGAREI, June 29. . The Northland District Pig Council yesterday urged* the Government .to make available immediately to dairy companies, funds to finance approved farmers to erect pig houses, etc., in order to increase the output of pig meat.

CAR AND TRAIN COLLIDE. CHRISTCHURCH, June 28.

James Wilson, aged 50, a farmer, of 50 Princess Street, Ashburton, suffered head injuries when the motor-car he was driving collided with a train at Sockburn railway crossing, this afternoon. He was taken to the Christchurch Public Hospital by the St. John ambulance, and his condition to-night was reported to be satisfactory.

NURSES’ MEMORIAL FUND DUNEDIN, June 28.

The twenty-third annual general meeting of the New Zealand Nurses’ Memorial Fund (incorporated) was held yesterday afternoon. Sir Lindo Ferguson presided. The president referred to the death of Mr. W. T. Monkman, who had been secretary to the provisional committee which initiated the memorial fund and for 22 years had been honorary auditor.

Officers were elected as follows: — President: Sir Lindo Ferguson; vicepresidents, Mr. James I3egg (Dunedin), and Dr. W. Young (Wellington); committee, Mrs. E. A. Kidd, Dr. E. H. B. Milsom (Auckland), Miss M. J. Lamble, Mrs. T. H. Lowry (Wellington), Miss H. E. Newman, Sir Hugh Acland (Canterbury), Dr. R. Burns Watson (Southland), Miss A. Holford, Miss D. Theomin, Miss E. J. Young, Mr. J. M. Paterson, Dr. Russell Ritchie (Otago); secretary, Mrs. H. W. Bundle; treasurer, Mr. J. A. McKinnon.