DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 April 1943, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

SERIOUSLY INJURED DARGAVILLE, April 7. After a collision between a led horse and a motor-car a passenger in the car, a naval rating, Len J. Serrup, was admitted to the Northern Wairoa Hospital, suffering from a fractured collarbone, and a fracture of the base of the skull. His condition is serious.

SHORT CHANGE. . WELLINGTON, April 8. Coleman Hyman, 57, tailor’s shop assistant, was fined by the Magistrate (Mr. Stout), £2 with costs, on each of two charges of theft from American servicemen. Because of complaints about short change in dollars, a police trap was laid, and Hyman, on April 2, gave 9/8 short in change, and on April 7, 4/4. AIRMAN’S "FATAL CRASH WELLINGTON, April 7.

An airman pilot under training, Leading Aircraftman John Ross Hadley, whose father js Mr C. J. Hadley, of Amberley, lost his life in an aircraft accident near a South Island station on Tuesday afternoon when his aircraft crashed during solo flying training.

L.A.C. Hadley enlisted from Greymouth, leaving here on May 21 last. At the time of his departure he was exchange clerk on the staff of the Chief Post Office, having been transferred to Greymouth from Cheviot a few months previously.

NEGLIGENCE ALLEGED NEW PLYMOUTH, April 7. The hearing of a charge of negligent driving, causing death, against Wilfred Wright, of Rahotu, a farmer, was begun in the New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court before Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., to-day. The charge arose from a level-crossing accident at Bell Block, on December 22, involving the deaths of Minnie Frances Gardner and her niece and nephew, Noeline Milne, aged nine, and Rex Neil Milne, aged six. There are four police witnesses, including the mother of the dead children, Ivy Close Milne, who was also a passenger in the car, the driver of the locomotive, Lewis Albert Cavaney, and the fireman, Norman S. H. Berge. The hearing was not concluded, and was adjourned till April 12.

KILLED ON RAILWAY NEW PLYMOUTH, April 7.

An accident during shunting operation in the Waitara railway station yard at 6.30 a.m. to-day caused the death of a guard. The guard was Samuel Victor Kiddie, aged 41, married, with two children. He. lived at Waitara. Kiddie was riding on the left side of the front cow-catcher of an engine and is believed to have been crossing over to the opposite side while the engine was in motion. He slipped and fell in front of the engine. The left wheel of the front bogie passed over his body. Kiddie was dragged for about 68 yards before the engine was stopped. He died in a few minutes. He had 20 years’ service in the Railways Department. He was transferred to Waitara from Taihape. WOMAN SHOT WELLINGTON, April 8. Having received a gunshot wound in the abdomen at the Trentham railway station, about 10 o’clock _ last night, a woman was later admitted to the public hospital at Wellington, in a serious condition. Before 1 being taken off by an ambulance she was attended by a Trenthan military doctor. LATER.

The victim of the shooting, Lily Grey, aged 39, is infant mistress at the Seatoun School, filer address is 17, Morton Terrace, where she was engaged as a voluntary helper at a Salvation Army Institute. She was about to board a train for Wellington. It was reported this afternoon that she had been operated on and her condition was fair.