DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 4 December 1940, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS

THEFT FROM SHOP AUCKLAND, December 1. Thieves entered a Self Help store at Avondale early this morning, and stole between £3O and £4O worth of tobacco. FARM LANDS FOR SETTLEMENT AUCKLAND, December 3. A1246-acre block of coastal country fronting the West Coast, about 10 miles south of Dargaville, has been acquired by the Crown for purposes of closer settlement. It adjoins the southern boundary of Bassets Block acquired by the Crown for small farms about 1929. The owner was Mr W. H. Bradley, of Te Kopuru, and it is understood that the deal fell a few hundred pounds short of £lO,OOO. The intention is to cut the area into 100-acre blocks. All but about 250 acres is ploughable. £70,000 POST OFFICE HAMILTON, December 3. Hamilton’s new post office, which has just been completed at a cost of more than £70,000, was officially

opened yesterday by tne PostmasterGeneral (Hon. P. C. Webb). SCHOLARSHIP FUND. WELLINGTON, December 2. The University of New Zealand’s S’hirfcliffe /'Scholarships were made possible by the substantial trust fund endowed in 1935 by Sir George Shirteliffe. Students who have held the awards have shown that the scholarships have already fulfilled a need among the students of the Dominion, and to ensure that the full number of awards will regularly be made in future, Sir George has lately added to the original sum a further gift of £4,000. The executive committee of the Senate of the University of New Zealand at its November meeting adopted a resolution expressing high appreciation of Sir George’s further generosity. BIG CONCRETE JOB. AUCKLAND, November 3. By using a large fleet of motor vehicles, and a central concrete mixing plant, a record in the pouring of concrete was established to-day on the Internal Marketing Department’s new building at Auckland. Delivering over a ton of concrete per minute, the lorries kept a large number

of men busy mixing and spreading concrete, from seven o’clock this morning. It is expected that by secen o’clock to-night, the loving of the second floor slab of. the building involving about 700 tons, will be completed, representing what is said to be the largest quantity of concrete poured in one day in New Zealand or Australia. A five storey building is. being constructed by the £ letchei Construction Co. on the flat slab system. MOTOR CYCLIST INJURED. x TIMARU, December 2. Peter James Murray, aged 20, a son of Mr. Peter Murray of Southburn, died in the Timaru Hospital as (he result of injuries suffered in a motor-cycle accident at Pleasant Point on Saturday night. The rider of the motor-cycle, Francis E. Campbell, escaped with abrasions and shock. Murray, who was a prospective buyer of the cycle, was being taken for a trial run by Campbell, and returning from near the Public Works .camp on the Timaru-Fairlie highway, the cycle ran off the bitumen along a pipe-line and crashed into an electric light pole. Dr. D. H. Moir, wiio attended Murray, ordered his removal to hospital,

where the injured man died soon after admission. WOMEN’S RESERVE CAMP. AUCKLAND December 3. . The first camp undertaken by a women’s organisation trained for war service in New Zealand will be held on the Avondale racecourse, front December 29 to January 7, when 200 members of the Women’s National Service Corps will go under canvas.