DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 24 August 1934, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS

(Per Press Association.) NAPIER, August 23. A 72-year-old Mauri. Wil Paumana, received fatal injuries in a motor accident at Tangoio when a rar skidded on a wet surface and capsized over a bank. X API HR. August 23. At the inquest into the death of William Alfred Knapp, retired tele graphist, a verdict was returned that deceased died as the result of swallowing an anliseptib self-adniinis-MrJical evidence .-howed that the liquid entered lhe air passages which immediately swelled, thus' blocking breathing and causing a mink dea f h. IX V ER(' A RGILL. August 23. As the result of his'car crashing into a tidegraph pole at Racecourse corne' - this morning, when he was proceeding | wards Invercargill. Arthur Broad suffered a complete fracture <>f the lower jaw. cuts, abrasions and shock, and a passenger in the car. Basil J Smith, jnr.. professional to th,. Invercargill Golf Club, sustained a broken nose, a gash al ’lhe base of the nose, cuts and abrasions. It appears that tin* car swerved on to the wrong side of lhe cad am*, struck lhe pole, being turned complete!’- round by the force of lhe impact. TILE FERM ITAGIL Augusl 23. The i ,‘( .-c,lub and open ski chainpionshp meeting was continued u.t Mount (’i.'ok to-day. Snow has been .aLiiio steadilv . sim - e lasi night, and ■Ji.oughou'i the dav several inches o. f.e'sh snow on the Ball Glacier made ■ondilions excellent, for ski ing. ReWomen’s downhill n'uvice; Miss X. Kino- ((’hristchiiii-h Ski Club) I; Miss B. Xorris ((’h rist chu ."ch Ski Club) 2; .Miss .1. Sutherland (Aorungi Ski Club) 3. Men’s downhi.l novice: ,1. Elworthy I iSouthlanl Ski Club) I: A. Sutherland I ‘ Aorang: Ski Club) 2; A. OlTwood (Ta.sman Ski Club) 3. Wonp’n ’> d'.iiwnhill. beginners; Mrs A. Dawson (Christchurch Ski Clulii I; Miss L. Ellis (Aorangi Ski (‘lni') 2: Miss L. Reddick (Aorangi Ski Men’s downhill, begi n m-’r> ; .I.Sutheiand (A.S.C.) I; J. Haptic iA.S.('_> 2; A. OlTwood (A.S.C.) Men’s cross-counti‘v open championship: X. McGregor (S.S.C. > 1 gtlm n L'sec; M. (’■ooper (A.S.C. > 2. L’lniin 5> sec; F. Drewitt (’I’.S.C. 3. 26iuin 2~> Women’s throe mile cros.s-countrv •humpionshi p; Miss X. King (<’.S.'C. I. 1 ’min 3sec: Miss A. Dawson (C.S.C.) 2. Dimin Miss D. Mackie ( A S.() 3. 17niin Ssoc. The resull of the i 1)t er-c’ n b compel it ion |o da I e for Ihe '.non's and women’s downhill and c n conn Iry laces is as i : ollo;ws: Tasman lOpi Aorangi Spts. Southland Gpls. The iiilerilub final events I’m - the 1 competition w ill be decnlud to morrow'.