DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 August 1925, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS.

FOUND DEAD IN MOTOR-CAR. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, August 5. The body of Roy M. Furness, of the firm of C. H. Furness and C’0..,. was found in his motor-ear on the Domain drive about 7 o’clock this morning. A bottle containing poison was lying on the floor of the car. Deceased was 30 years of age, and had just returned from a health trip to the Great Barrier Island. He feared h e was suffering from an incurable malady, and was in a state of nervous prostration. 4 BUTTER-FAT PAY-OUT. HAMILTON, August 5. At the end of August the Mew Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company will distribute among its suppliers £500,000 as a bonus for payment for the past season’s supply. It is claimed that this, with certain subsidies, will give suppliers to the company a better total payment for butter-fat than any other company in the provinces. WATERFRONT DISPUTE. OHRISTCIHUROH, Aug. 5. The deadlock continues at Lyttelton over the unloading of phosphates and guano from the steamers Pearimoor ; and Pen me rv all. COLLISION IN AUCKLAND HARBOUR, AUCKLAND,' Aug. 5. During a, dense fog the ferry steamer Albatross collided with and wank the scow Scott. Two men were aboard the scow and these were picked up by the steamer. JUMPED OFF BRIDGE. AUCKLAND, Aug. 5. W. A. McCormick, a married man with a family, who has been a Harbour Board employee for forty years, committed suicide this morning oy jumping from the Grafton. Road bridge. HLs neck was broken. He was on leave of absence for health reasons. V ANOTHER! WIRELESS ACHIKVE- * MEINT. GISBORNE, Aug. 5. Mr. the radio amateur, 2AC, established the first recorded twoway radio communication! between New Zealand and Holland on Sunday, conversing with O'BA, Rotterdam. ’