DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 28 February 1947, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS

PAPATOETOE COLLISION VERDICT AUCKLAND, Feb. 27. “I don’t propose to send you to prison or to fine you. I don’t think it would give effect to the jury’s strong recommendation to mercy.” With "these words, Mr Justice Finlay to-day ordered to come for sentence if called upon within two years a locomotive fireman, Desmond Samuel Illsley, aged 22. Following the train collision at Papatoetoe on August 24, Illsley was found guilty of causing actual bodily harm tp a passenger in such circumstances that it death had ensued he would be guilty of manslaughter. The driver of the engine in which Illsley was fireman was acquitted. His Honour said that such cases were unfortunate, but it might be that the prosecution had served the admirable purpose of inculcating that on men of the .railway service the undeviating necessity to observe signals. RAILWAY PASSENGER KILLED. p.A. TAIHAPE, Feb. 27. While attempting to alight from a still moving express on its arrival at Taihape at" nine o’clock last evening, Mrs. Florence Juanita Henry, aged about G 5, of Urua, near Paeroa, fell between the train and the platform, suffering severe injuries, including a broken pelvis and broken ankles from which she died soon after being extricated. Deceased joined the express at Palmerston for Frankton and was travelling in one of the front carriages which stopped some distance past the refreshment rooms. The express saw delayed half an hour. The inquest was adjourned till this afternoon after hearing evidence of identification. HERITAGE MOVEMENT P.A. WELLINGTON, Feb. 27, ‘‘There was a most enthusiastic appreciation of the work of the movement,” said the Governor-Gen-eral, Sir Bernard Freyberg, who as Patron of Heritage (Incorporated), opened a Dominion Conference, and the third annual meeting of the organisation at Government House today Delegates from branches all throughout Now Zealand met under the chairmanship of the President (Mr Justice Smith). He could not imagine anything worthier than the movement, and thought that the basis of the work should be broadened as much as possible, said General Freyberg.

Addressing the conference bv invitation. the Minister of Rehabilitation (Hon C. F. Skinner), said h? thought that the neak of the work of Heritage would be reached in from eight to ten years’ time. He recommended the greatest possible liaison between the Government and Heritage.