DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 May 1944, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS

BULLER MINER INJURED WESTPORT, May 13. Charles Barnes, aged 43, a widower. with five children, was seriously injured as the result of a fall of coal in the Millerton mine yesterday. His injuries consist of lacerations to the head and a crushed right shoulder. FIRE OUTBREAKS. CHRISTCHURCH, May 13. Approximately seven tons of rubber were damaged in a fire at the rubber reclamation works at Woolston, this afternoon. The Central Fire Brigade was called out, and the outbreak was quickly brought under control. THAMES, May 13. The Fire Brigade was called last night to extinguish a fire in a police ■ cell. An Allied soldier, held on de-‘ tention, was rescued in a semi-asphy-xiated condition, reviving after medical attention. cyclisFinjured. CHRISTCHURCH, May 14. Gunner Ethel Isabel Bromby, aged 24 years, a membei' of the W.A.A.C., suffered a fracture of the base of the skull and severe facial injuries about 12.15 a.m. to-day, when a bicycle which she was riding got out of control down the hill in Dublin Street, Lyttelton, and smashed into the stone wall above the tunnel. Gunner Bromby’s home address is given as Otama, Southland. This evening her condition was reported to be satisfactory. TWO MOTORISTS KILLED. AUCKLAND, May 14. _ Two men were killed in an accident between Ngaruawahia and Glen Massey last night. The victims were: — . Charles Edward Horneman, aged 63, of Puru, Thames, and C. E. Goldsmith, aged about 60, ot 53 Wyndrum Avenue, Lower Hutt. The two men were travelling in a car towards Glen Massey. When taking a turn on the top of a hill near Glen Massey the car fell over an embankment about 80ft. The accident was not discovered until this morning, when both occupants of the car were dead.

TRIPLETS BORN. AUCKLAND, May 14. Triplet sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Keen, of Grey Lynn. , . , . The first baby, which was born on Saturday night, weighed only 21b 7oz, while the others, which were born this afternoon, both weighed 41b. The smallest baby has been removed to the Karitane Hospital, and the other two boys are with their mother in another hospital. They are the first children in the family. Mrs. Keen is 21 years old and her husband a year older. PRISON FOR THEFT. CHRISTCHURCH, May 15. Eighteen months’ hard labour was the sentence imposed on Angus Cameron Macfarlane, 44, civil servant, by Mr. Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court, this morning, on six charges of theft of Government money amounting to £327. His Honor said it was clear that Macfarlane and a former head of the Industries and Commerce Department in Christchurch (C. S. Sapsford) had developed a conspiracy to defraud the Government. Both were men of mature years, and he was unable to take the view that one was more implicated than the other.