DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 June 1943, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS

CHOKED BY FOOD WANGANUI, June 13

James Trevarthen Thomas, aged 64, employed at Kiel Warra Station, Hunterville, died to-day when he was choked into unconsciousness by a piece of steak in his throat when having lunch. The steak was removed by the licensee of an hotel, but Thomas was dead when a doctor arrived.

Thomas, who was formerly a jockey in the Thames district, is understood to have brothers at Auckland and Thames.

ALL BLACK’S FATAL FALL. WELLINGTON, June 15. Captain Cyril Stennard Pepper, M.C., aged 31, was found fatally injured below a block of flats in Salamanca Road, Wellington, early on Ihe morning of May 30. At the inquest evidence was given that since his return from the Middle East, where he suffered a head injury, Popper’s vision had been affected and he walked in his sleep. Comment that he was satisfied from statements of witnesses that death was accidental, and that any suggestion of suicide was completely ruled out, was made bv the Coroner (Mr. Mellish).

FAILING TO ENROL AUCKLAND, June 14. A sentence of three months’ imprisonment was passed by the Magistrate (Mr Luxford) to-day on a reservist, James Andrew Harrison, 27, farm hand, who he said had dodged enrolling in the National Reserve for nearly three years. The charge was one of failing to make application for enrolment, to which. Harrison pleaded guilty. “You got away with it for a long time,” said the Magistrate. “I don’t think there are many in New Zealand like you. Now you will have to pay the penalty.”

WATERSIDER STABBED. WELLINGTON, June 14. H. E. Mahoney, of Petone, a waterside worker is reported to have been stabbed by visiting servicemen outside his home on Saturday night. It is stated that two servicemen called to visit two girls who board there and when they were told the girls did not wish to see them, refused to go away. A struggle developed, and one man, it is reported, slashed Mahoney with a knife, inflicting a severe incised wound in the left side of the body. Neighbours then appeared and the two men ran away. Mahoney was admitted to the v. n qpital. His condition is reported + o be satisfactory.