DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 3 December 1925, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

FREE TRIPS TO DUNEDIN. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION .) WELLINGTON, Dec. 3. Air Andrew Fletcher is so impressed by the Dunedin Exhibition that he has given 12 pupils and one teacher of the Miramar School a free trip to Dunedin. RIDER SERIOUSLY INJURED. THAMES, Dec. 3. Yesterday afternoon Frederick Epps, aged 45, was riding on a country road when a motor car, apparently out of control, smashed into him. Epps ivas admitted to hospital, suffering from a broken pelvis and other injuries. His condition is serious. CHAIR OF CHILD WELFARE. DUNEDIN, Dec 3. Seeking to bring about a chair of child welfare, the Plunket Society decided this morning to confer with the Otago University Council and to go into the matter of the establishment of a chair connected with the medical school. A remit 'was carried to the effect that the Government be asked to place Plunket Societies upon the same footing as friendly societies regarding exemption of stamp duty on receipts and cheques. A MAORI DIOCESE. WELLINGTON, Dec. 3. The General Syned of the Anglican Church is now 'sitting in Wellington. It has practically accomplished the work for which it was specially convened, and a bishop of the Maori race is omv .assured. A synodical organisation has been created. The headquarters of the new Maori diocese is to be at Te Aute.

MOTORISTS IN TROUBLE

CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 3

Pleading guilty to charges of driving a motor ear while intoxicated, of driving recklessly, and converting a car to bio own use without right, and failing to report an accident, Lawrence Albert Manning, a mechanic, aged 29, was committed for sentence this morning. His companion, Dbnald Townsend, aged 31, was fined £2O for drunkness. The police gave evidence -that the car knocked over a boy cyclist and carried him about a, hundred yards. It later collided with a lorrv.