Dominion News

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 December 1950, Page 2

Dominion News

Motor-Cyclist Killed A motor-cyclist was killed on the Tirau-Cambridge main highway at 4.40 p.m. yesterday. He was Colin Lloyd Russell, aged 19, an employee of the Waitemata Power Board, of Warkworth. Russell was riding north when he failed to take a bend in the road near Karapiro. The motor-cycle crossed the road and collided with a car travelling in the opposite direction. —(P.A.)

Men Missing At Lake Tekapo No trace has yet been found of James William Cannan and Daniel Joseph Nolan, of Tekapo, who are believed to have been drowned in Lake Tekapo last Saturday. Bad weather limited the search yesterday to the shores of the lake, and the search will be continued for the next , few days. Both men are married. The outboard motor-boat in which they were last seen in the centre of Lake Tekapo was found overturned on the shore of the lake on Sunday.—(P.A.).

Arson Suspected A two-storey 12-roomed wooden house at Rata street, New Lynn, was destroyed by fire about 2 a.m. yesterday. The fire had a strong holdwhen the brigade arrived, and it was too late to save the building. Arson is suspected and detectives are investigating. The house, which was unoccupied, was owned by Mr A. Kingsbeer, of Hauraki street, Birkenhead. The outbreak was first reported by a police patrol car, when the driver noticed a red glare in the western sky.—(P.A.) Rail Fares Refunded

Well over £5OOO has been already refunded in Auckland to holders of .railway and road service • tickets, whose holiday plans were ruined by the railwaymen’s strike. This is considered to be only part of the claim which the disruption of services,. so far, would warrant before the strike involved the whole country. Many holiday-makers managed to get to Frankton Junction to catch a train, and these people, with the unused Auckland-Frankton portion of their ticket, are nearly all still away.— (P.A.)

Fishing Launch Damaged Lashed by seas that at times ran as high as 15 to 20 feet, the £B,OOO, 35ton Sirius, owned by Mr W. H. Brown of Christchurch, and captained by Mr A. Robinson, Young Street, New Plymouth, lost a considerable amount of fishing gear, sustained damage to the ship gear and finally lost her moorings during the course of a fight today to return from the .fishing grounds off Mokau to the port of New Plymouth. News that the Sirius was taking a pounding spread quickly at New Plymouth, and when she finally rounded the breakwater at about 3 p.m., then some five hours behind her scheduled, arrival time, a crowd estimated at about 200 was there to watch her. —(P.A.)