DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 March 1925, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

CHILD ACCIDENTALLY STRANGLED. Car telegraph—press association. EEILDING, March 17. A child named McMurran, aged 8, met its death through strangling at its .parents’ home at Kiwitea on Sunday, It Was ’ swinging in a roller towel in the bath-room when it gbt caught. A ’ younger , brother called to its mother, \ bu't, the child was dead when the mother ’.arrived. At the inquest a verdict of , accidental death was returned, i r. . _ DUNEDIN EXHIBITION. 1 '■ , AUCKLAND; March 17. “ The local exhibition committee hits ' resolved , that Auckland, will be” represented at; the Dunedin Exhibition. It ! Jias ,',cle.fi|ded ,to qsk local bodies to apr'point delegates, to a conference to be held on the matter. GERMAN CONSUL-GENERAL. t I ~ ' ■ - >V AUCKLAND, March 17. 11 Herr S. Busing, the German Consul- ' General for Australia and New Zealand ' and Islands, arrived by the Aorangi t-o----jtlay on an official visit. He came- to the ‘"-Dominion seeking general information. 7 In .iin interview, he said: “Somev’people in Australia are friendly to us, ;;nd some are not. It will need some -jiihe to overcome sentiment.” He .leaves in a few days for Wellington, r tujd later will go to the Islands. 2 HOUSING AND LOTTERIES. >u OHIRISTCiHUHOH, March 17, The Council of the- .Christian •Churches passed, a- motion, expressing -the belief that the provision of homes k-t basic price® for the poorer paid avbfkens is essential -to social, wellihein.g and • that the destruction pf chouses which had ceased to be suit--•‘able should -lie insisted upon. The ‘(Hhiincil also pats-sed a resolution that ■ft-'the Dunedin method of providing iptaying grounds- by public lottery is peing imitated lit sevjirto-1 cities, of ‘which Christchurch is one. It is a qSScredited method and detrimental to dpublio interest and injurious to morals-.” qd CHARGE AGAINST A MARRIED ;ret WOMAN. GISBORNE, March 17. hr-At- Waipiro Bay, Thelma . Motile, a iparriecl woman, was committed for ipjal on a charge of tnurderihg her input child at Ruatofu on February 24. Tlie accused reserved her defence. At the iiiquest the jury found that ,]ie death of the infant was; due to faemorrage. caused ‘by the improper emitting of the navel cord.