DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 October 1945, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

> CHILD DROWNED CHRISTCHURCH, October 24. Mervyn John Lilley, aged i/Jur years and seven months, was found dead with his head in a copper full of water at his home, 15 Dennitt Street, North New Brighton, about 11.40 o’clock to-day. BACON FACTORY FIRE NEW PLYMOUTH, October 24. . Prompt action by the. Eltham Fire Brigade prevented serious loss by fire to the bacon factory, of J. C. Hutton, New Zealand, Ltd., at Eltham to-day. The fire started in a smoke house attached to the bacon-curing department, and although structural damage to the room and roof resulted, the flames were prevented from (Spreading to the main store room. prisonerFsentenced. DUNEDIN, October 25. In the Supreme Court Judge Kennedy sentenced to two years reformative detention Robert John Hendry, aged 31 years, a lorry driver, on charges of breaking and entering and of assault causing bodily harnT to a police constable at Gore, (the latter being struck with an iron bar. . , .. John Augustine Kenneally, on a charge of assaulting his wife, causing bodily harm, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour.

FATAL COLLISION GISBORNE, October 25. A collision between cars in Tolaga Bay township late yesterday resulted in the death of one man and injuries to a second. The . victims were:—Killed: Cyril William (Pat.) Leahy, aged 45 years, married, with two children, a development officer attached to we Gisborne Office of the Native Department. Injured: Alexander Forbes Taylor, aged 30 years a surveyor, married, with two children. He received severe injuries to the face m the vicinity of the eyes. . The cars collided in the centie ol an intersection and Leahy was flung out, landing on his head on the road and died within a few minutes, ine occupants of the other car, driven by Henry Augustus Roberts, a wooiclasser, of Tolaga Bay, his wife and two children, escaped uninjured.