DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 April 1943, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

FATAL BURNS

OPOTIKI, April 12. A tragedy occurred at Terere Pah, Opotiki, when a Maori girl, Hiria Pukepuke, aged six, received fatal burns. Her clothes caught fire when she got too close to a fire. No adults were about at the time. She ran outside in search of someone to extinguish the flames. Eventually another child threw water over her. She was admitted to Opotiki Hospital and death occurred shortly afterwards.

TIRED OF CAMP AUCKLAND, April 2. Because he was tired of camp and wanted to go overseas, Private William Gourley Riccalton, 21, said at a court-martial at an Auckland camp this morning he absented himself without leave, and escaped from custody. He pleaded guilty to a series of charges. Accused, a miner by occupation, said he was just fed up with camp life. The sentence will be promulgated. WOMAN IMPRISONED. WELLINGTON, April 12. The denial of Sarah Anne Vangioni, 64, proprietress of the Balmoral Private Hotel, that she knew of any incidents of immorality in the hotel, was not accepted by the Magistrate (Mr. Stilweh) in his reserved judgment at the Magistrate’s Court, today, and he convicted her of permitting the hotel to be used as a house of Ulfarne. She was fined £lOO and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.

Mi - . Stilwell said he was satisfied rhe knew in general of what was going on under her roof, and though Du made some pretence of disapproval, the whole circumstances pointed irresistibly to the conclusion that she connived at it. He was satisfied that the house had developed into a house of illfame. BELIEVED DROWNED. INVERCARGILL, April 11. A girl and two youths are believed to have been drowned at the mouth of the Oreti River when a sailing boat of the Takapuna class capsized this afternoon. They are Marion Dorothy Bull, aged 17, Bernard Whiting, aged 16, and Richard Thomas, aged 17. A fourth occupant of the boat, Eileen Homer, aged 17 years, was also believed to be drowned, but shortly after 8 p.m. she arrived home .in an exhausted condition, still wearing a lifebelt. The party had been in the boat all day and were returning home up the estuary when the accident occurred. After the boat capsized the occupants were seen clinging to it. John Rask rowed out to it but when he reached the boat there was no sign of any of the occupants.

PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT WELLINGTON, April 10.

“The People’s Movement flatters itself when it says it mobilised public opinion and forced the formation of the War Administration,” said Mr. Holland, Leader of the Opposition, replying to criticism directed against him’ by the movement. He said a recent statement represented the opinions of one or two individuals. These persons were among the People’s Movement representatives, who conducted negotiations with the National Party to join forces with it. A small coterie did not abide by the agreement to combine and misappropriated the name of People’s Movement. Now they talked about unity and sincerity. Mr. Holland said their latest statement was full of mischievous inventions. They had even gone to the length of alleging that one of his colleagues voted in a certain manner when he was not even present at the meeting. Mr. E. R. Toop, who was President of the People’s Movement when it decided to link up with the National Party, had several times disowned those now using the name.