DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 March 1941, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WORKER ELECTROCUTED. BLENHEIM, March 28.

Robert Leslie Thompson, 44, married, was killed by electric shock this afternoon, while engaged with a Marlborough Power Board gang in installing a new service at the end of the street in which he lived. The power was shut off the line on which the men were engaged but Thompson’s head touched a 33,000 volt high tension cable above him. Death was instantaneous.

UNIVERSITY DEGREES. ' WELLINGTON, March 28. Degrees conferred to-day by the University of New Zealand included students of Canterbury University College as follow: — Bachelor of Arts: Francis Durning, John Kellett Watson. Bachelor of Engineering: Alan George Vivian Woodward. The degree of Bachelor of Agricultural Science was conferred on Arthur John Healy, and Bertrand George Seeley, both of Massey Agricultural College.

FIRE AT FLOUR MILL. TIMARU, March 28.

A five-storey building and plant, insured for £25,000 was almost completely destroyed in a fire at the flour mill connected with the biscuit factory of J. R. Bruce, Ltd., this afternoon. While the manufacture of flour will be stopped for some months, production in the biscuit, factory is in no way affected.' The three top floors? with valuable machinery, including sifting and scalping plant and elevators, are a total loss, and lower in the building wheat-cleaning and condition plant was also destroyed. On the first floor, where the main rollers are located, some damage was done, but the plant can be repaired satisfactorily. It is hoped that most of the machinery lost can be replaced from Australia. The building was destroyed and completely rebuilt after a fire in 1922, and was sinc.e equipped as one of the most modern mills m Australia or New Zealand.