DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 7 October 1941, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS

R.A. TAUMARUNUI, October 6. Joffree James John McLelland, 24, single, employed on the public works, Arapuni line extension to Manawatu, broke his neck on Sunday, while pig hunting in the Kaitieke district. While chasing a nig, decqased tripped and dived headlong between two trees growing close together. His parents reside at Rotorua. BLENHEIM, October 6. Vic Cautaux (10.5) retained the welter-weight title on Saturday night, when he knocked out Jack Davis (10.54), in the eleventh round of a scheduled fifteen rounds bout, in a fast fight. Caltaux revealed definite superiority. His aggressiveness and better ringcraft steadily wore the challenger down. AUCKLAND. October (>. Travelling to India to' establish a new dockyard, Mr G. Cruickshank. recently appointed shipbuilding manager of the Scindia Steam Navigation Company of Bombay, is visiting Auckland. Fresh from practical work in a huge shipbuilding yard in Scotland, Mr Cruickshank spent three months in the United States, where he visited the main shipbuilding centres. He expressed profound admiration of the miraculous progress that had been made in shipbuilding. The speed of output would, he said, be further accelerated as the war progressed. The Anzac Clipper, which left Honolulu at 4.35 this morning, for Canton Island, is due at Auckland on Wednesday. Among the passengers is J. Te Van, an official of the New York Zoo, to obtain a kiwi from New Zealand, a koala bear and duckbilled platypus from Australia, and a giant pander from China, the gift from Chiang Kai-shek, in gratitude for American help to China.