DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 January 1941, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[per press association.] . KILLED BY BULL. OAMARU, January 17. John Edmondston, 59, farmer, Moeraki, was gored by a bull, on Sunday last, when attaching a chain to it. He suffered injury necessitating 22 stitches in the thigh. The injured man died yesterday. MAN IMPRISONED DUNEDIN, January 17. . Alexander McLaren, 20, was sentenced at the Supreme Court to six months’ reformative detention in Borstal, on a charge'of incest, at Shag Point. SHIP’S STEWARD FINED WELLINGTON, January 17. ' For going aboard an overseas ship without a permit, David John Blackie Griffiths, a steward from anpther overseas ship, was fined £2. STUDENTS IN CAMP. AUCKLAND, January 16. All University colleges have arranged that students attending Territorial military camps will suffer no disability, said the Vice-Chancellor (Sir Thomas Hunter) at a meeting of the Senate to-day. The military authorities, he said, had met the Senate generously, making it possible for affected students to go to camp during vacations. Some colleges were opening later, and others were giving special tuition to students whose attendance was delayed by military duties. Colonel G. J. Smith (Christchurch) : It is a pity they do not all open later. Sir Thomas: We cannot interfere with individual arrangements of colleges. lam assured that colleges are meeting the situation as well as possible.