DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 December 1940, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[per press association.] WATERSIDER KILLED NELSON, December 9. A waterside worker, Frederick William Townsend, 67, widower, was killed instantly on the. Nelson wharves, when assisting in unloading the coastal vessel, Port Waikato. Crates of cargo, each weighing four hundredweight, were being landed on to trucks, when a sling containing two crates, swung out from the ship, and crushed him against a truck. Deceased has a young family.

PRISON FOR ASSAULT. DUNEDIN, December 9. In the Police Court, James Macken was sentenced to a month’s gaol, for assaulting an aircraftman in uniform. The police stated that an argument arose at a pie cart between the accused and an artilleryman in uniform. It was alleged that either the accused or a companion used insulting language regarding the artilleryman being in uniform. The aircraftman intervened and was struck by accused on the lips which had to be stitched. The Magistrate (Mr. Bundle) said that had it been proved the accused made' insulting remarks concerning the wearing of the uniform, he would have imposed the maximum penalty.

£1,000,000 APPEAL’S PROGRESS WELLINGTON, December 7. A third of the way has been passed towards the goal of £ 1,000,000 for the All Purposes Appeal. The Dominion organiser (Mr. J. Abel) said to-day that £367,000 had been accounted for and he was well satisfied with the progress made. He was confident that the back of the campaign would be well broken early in the New Year. The procedure being followed in England to distribute comforts and generally provide for the welfare of the men of the New Zealand fighting forces is described by Colonel the Hon. F. Waite, overseas commissioner for the National Patriotic Fund Board in a letter to the secretary of the Board (Mr. G. Flayden). Colonel Waite points out that difficulties have been increased by enemy action in inter-, rupting communication by quick' methods. As far as possible he has decentralised the distribution. A considerable amount has been spent on sports equipment. “We simply have to do this to relieve the boredom of waiting for the Hun,” he says. Two thousand pounds worth of sports equipment has also been purchased for the Middle East. His guiding rules have been to safeguard the people who gave the money and see that the New Zealand men had beneIftted from the expenditure.