DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 July 1945, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

MAORI CHILD KILLED PALMERSTON N., July 21. A Maori child, Murray Richardson, aged six, son of Q. P. # Richardson, farmer. Ohakea, was killed on Jnday afternoon when he fell on a motor-lorry near his home and was run over. BOOKMAKERS FINED. MASTERTON, July 19. Fines totalling £325 were imposed by Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court on bookmaking charges. William D. Darvill an d Alexander Neish were each fined £lOO, Edward Cornelius Wadham £75, and Clarence John Kenny £5O. FATAL INJURIES. NELSON, July 19. Buried by a fall of earth from the roof of a shaft in which he was working at T. K. A. Polglase’s clay works at Kaka, Jack Wilfred Barker, aged 53, later died from, his injuries. J. R. Parkins, who was also working in. the shaft at the time of the accident, escaped injury and was able to extricate Barker. CARS CONVERSION. WELLINGTON, July 20 Between June .13 and July 13 John Keith Henley, student teacher aged 19. converted 21 motor-cars in Wellington, and also stole from five of them a sleeping bag, a chain tapemeasure, a car radio, an overcoat, and a car battery, said DetectiveSergeant E. H. Compton in the Magistrate's Court to-day. Henley pleaded guilty to a total of 26 charges preferred against him, and was sentenced by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., to 12 months’ detention in a Borstal institution. The total value of the cars converted was nearly £6OOO. SHOT FnHOTEL. HASTINGS, July 19. Arising out of a disturbance in the Carlton Club Hotel, Hastings, on June 20 last, when a shot was fired in a bedroom, James Percival Bear, a confectionery manufacturer, aged 36, appeared before Mr. J. Miller, S.M., in the Hastings Magistrate’s Court today, on a charge of attempting to murder Ronaldean Alice May Waymouth. He was committed to the Supreme Court, Napier, for trial. Mrs. Waymouth, who for the last three years has been employed as a waitress at the Carlton Club Hotel, said the accused was a guest at the hotel for about six-months. She had been on very friendly terms with him foi' about 20 months. On June 16 she told the accused it would be best if they parted. On June 20, when she went to her room aftei’ work, the accused was-there. He presented a gun at her and pulled the trigger, but it did not fire. She screamed, and again the accused pulled the trigger. The gun was not loaded. He told her he was only trying to frighten her. Accused then took a cartridge out of his pocket, and put it into the gun, said the witness. As he was doing this, she grabbed the rifle. She pulled the barrel down towards the floor, and the gun discharged. While she was struggling with the accused on the •floor, Max Luttrell, a son of the licensee, forced his way into the room.