DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 September 1944, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS

FATAL INJURIES.

AUCKLAND, September 23. Fatal injuries were received by a member of the R.N.Z.A.F., Robert Barcham Chandler, aged 39, an aircraft hand, -whose wife lives in Wanganui, this morning. He was working a mechanical hoist at the Parnell depot when a two-ton case fell from the stack and he was crushed beneath it, suffering head injuries. He died shortly after admission to hospital.

TRUCK DRIVER KILLED. HASTINGS, September 25. When a light truck went over a bank near the Pukehou railway station on' Saturday night, Hanita Timo Renata, aged 28, Te Hauke, who recently returned from overseas service, was killed instantly. The driver, deceased’s brother, Dick Renata, sustained cuts and abrasions.

GAMING CONVICTIONS AUCKLAND, September 25

Arising out of police visits to two city premises on Saturday, a woman aged 27 and a man aged 69, appeared voluntarily at the Police Court, today, charged with using the premises as a common gaming house. Pleaded guilty each was fined £5O. A spinster, Florence Stewart, was stated by Detective-Sergeant Trethewey to have been using the premises as a gaming house since October last. A search disclosed two unlisted telephones. During half an hour thirty bets totalling £4B were taken, and the records showed the total for the day was 163, the bets totalling £159. The books disclosed that on some days as much as £6BO was taken in bets. Police evidence against the male accused, Bernard Emanuel Hart, was that he had been using the premises as a gaming house for some time. Records inspected by the police showed that on Saturday Hart took 368 bets totalling £294. He had two unlisted telephones.