DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 5 January 1940, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS

MOTOR HIT BY TRAIN. AUCKLAND, January 4. A man was killed and a woman wax seriously injured when a small motor car was struck by a local, tram on a level crossing on the Pukekohe-Pae-rata road at 10.20 o’clock, this morning. The man was Join) . Boyd Mai- ' shall, of -Graham’s .Beachr; Waiuku; aged about" 60. .The idccitity of the woman is not yet known. ' ; It is stated that...neither..tt^eY train nor the car' was travelling, at; a fast pace. The. smaller vehicle, was. Carr ried a distance of 100 yards, and was. reduced’to? a-twisted’ mass" of wreckage. ■ The woman was/-thrown some distance from the pbirit of "impact, while Marshall, who was driving, was taken from the wreckage of the cux ten minutes later. The injured woman was taken by ambulance to the Auckland Hospital. DRY YEAR. TIMARU, January 4. Not since 1915 has Timaru experienced such a dry year as it did m 1939, when the rainfall recorded was 13.54 inches; in 1915 the rainfall was <= 12.36 inches. ESCAPEE SENTENCED. TRIED TO JOIN ARMY. • AUCKLAND, January 4. Pleas of guilty and an appeal for leniency were made by Raymond Patrick Letton, 33, plastsrer ,when charged at the Police Court, with being an incorrigible rogue in that he escapll from a place of lawful confinement before the expiration of the term ror which he was committed. The police said that Letton was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment, in the Supreme Court, last March, and on‘the night of November 4 he escaped from a cell at Rangipo prison camp, Tokaanu, after cutting out a window. He was recaptured by a constable at Kingsland’ on December 24.. ■ This was the second time , that . Letton had escaped from custody. Letton told the Magistrate (Mr McKean) that he tried to join the army and make a fresh start. - ' “It is probably just as well you didn’t join the army,” said' Mr. McKean. “However, I am taking 'into account what you told me. On this charge, you will be. sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, to be served at the expiry of the term, you are now serving.” . - -■. -- ..