DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 January 1925, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

RAIN AT HARVEST TIME. ’ (IIY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 12. Steady pain has been falling most of the day. The fall lias come a-t a very inconvenient time, as harvesting is in full swing, and the crops in stock are. iikely to suffer damage. DEATH WHILE TRAVELLING. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 12. This morning just before the train from Rangiora to- Christchurch reached the Kaiapoi station F l . Sheppard Green, of Shirley, suddenly collapsed and died. He was sitting in a first-class smoking compartment, and the passengers noticed him collapse. When the train reached Kaiapoi Mr. Green was taken off and a doctor summoned, but he could do nothing. Deceased carried on the profession of accountant and) auditor. He was al prominent Methodist Church worker. WOMEN ATHLETES NOT FAVOURED. WELLINGTON, Jan. 12. The vexed question of women’s athletics was again before the council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association to-night, when a motion that a 100 yards women’s race be put on the New Zealand championship programme but not to count for championship points was rejected. Mr. Taylor (Otago) then moved that for consistency’s sake the council should bar women’s events being held by any of the centres or clubs affiliated to the council, but the chairman required notice of motion.

IMPRISONMENT FOR, THEFT. TIMARU, Jan. 12. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, Albert Fitzsimmons, an employee of the Farmers’ Co-operative Association, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for a series of thefts from the association’ premises. MAN FOUND DEAD. GISBORNE, Jan. 13. Oswald Knight McDermott, a married man, employed on a farm at Ngatapa, was found dead. His throat had been cut by a razor.

CHILD FATALLY SCALDED. GISBORNE, Jan. 13. At Ruatorea, a, child named Henry Ready fell into a tin of boiling water whilst his mother was hanging out the clothes. He received injuries which resulted in his death. YOUNG CHILD DROWNED. MARTON, Jan. 13. Mervyn Bailey, aged two years, a son of John Bailey, a labourer on Reddon’s farm at Upper Tutaenui, was missing yesterday, and his body was later found in an adjacent stream, which had risen thirty inches in an hour through a cloudburst. FIRE AT~MARTON ■ MARTON, Jan. 13. A. fire at 2 o’clock this morning gutted the northern portion of a twostorey modern building occupied by Lloyds, Limited, a drapery firm in Broadway. The fire had a strong hold. At one time the Presbyterian and English churches were threatened, but were saved. The fire is still smouldering. The damage is estimated at £IB,OOO. The insurance were £lO,000 on the stock in the Sun office. That on the building and fittings was unavailable.