DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 July 1942, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS

RAILWAY TRAGEDY. WELLINGTON. July 17. A Maori aged 40, Kara William Roach, of Pukerua Bay, lost his balance when getting off a train at Wellington station this morning, and fell between the platform and carriages. He was dragged for 100 feet and dismembered, death being instantaneous.

CENSORSHIP BREACHES. WELLINGTON. July 17.

Zena Allison Maida Dickey, of Wellington, and Mary Ellen Beckett; of Paekakariki, for a breach of censorship by including in letters to be sent overseas information that might be useful to the enemy, were each fined £5. The Magistrate (Mr. Stoiu) remi i ked that there was no reason to doubt, the loyalty of either.

CHILD KILLED AUCKLAND, July 16. Run over by a cream lorry in which he had been riding to school on the Great North road at Taupaki, a six-year-old boy received injuries from which he died within a quarter of an hour. The child was Frederick Leonard Fox, of Taupaki. He had been riding in the back of the lorry. The driver had occasion to reverse tor a short distance and when he stopped he discovered that one wheel had passed over the child. MAN CONVICTED DUNEDIN. July 16. In the Supreme Court to-day before Mr. Justice Kennedy. Henry Arthur Hirt. aged 48, a Swiss, was found guilty of having unlawfully used an instrument with intent to procure a miscarriage. Flirt was remanded lor sentence on Tuesday next, bail beinggranted in his own recognisance of £lOOO and two sureties of £lOOO each. . 1 During the trial a point was raised by the defence as to the admissibility of the evidence of the woman concerned, on the ground that counsel had had an inadequate opportunity to cross-examine her. His Honor intimated that any application to him to state a case on this point to the Court of Appeal should be made not later than Monday. MINISTER’S BODY RECOVERED WELLINGTON, July 15. The body of the Rev. Gdilym Elwyn Williams, who was drowned last Monday afternoon when his car was trapped by flood waters sweeping across the Main Wairarapa Highway near Hamua, has been recovered. His two-door car was found to have been carried two chains off the road by the water.

Mr. Williams, who was aged fortynine years, leaves a wife and an infant daughter, aged seven weeks. He was priest-in-charge of Ohura, in the Waikato Diocese, from 1937 until just recently, when he was appointed vicar at Eketahuna. He studied at the London College of Divinity and St. Chad’s College, Regina, Saskatchewan, where he was ordained.

NEW MINISTERS’ DUTIES

WELLINGTON, July

The duties of the new Ministers dealing with manpower appointed to tne War Administration are outlined in the National Service Ministers Emergency Regulations gazetted tonight. They outline the portfolios of Mr. McLagan, Minister of Industrial Manpower; Mr. W. A. Bodkin, Minister of Civil Defence; Mr. Broadfoot, Minister of National Service, in much the same manner as did the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) when he announced the War Administration Ministry on June 30. One interesting feature, however, is the fact that the administration of certain regulations will come within the province of the Minister of Justice, including those relating to the special tribunals dealing with conscientious objectors whose appeals have been allowed and detention and detention camps for defaulters.