DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 December 1925, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS.

A BOY DROWNED

(by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) THAMES, Dec. 9.

John Stewart Rial ley, aged seven years, was drowned by falling off a pontoon on the foreshore last evening between six and seven o’clock. The body was found after midnight. The boy was playing with a companion the same age, who saw him fall in, but went home to bed without saying anything about the occurrence.

TRAM CONDUCTOR INJURED

CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 9. Walter Teague, a tram conductor, sustained a fracture to his right thigh through being crushed between a tram and a trailer yesterday. Teague is twenty-three years of age and is, a married man.

RIVER PROTECTION SCHEME

CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 9

The Waimakiriri River Trust decided this morning to submit to the ratepayers a comprehensive scheme at a cost of £IBO,OOO for th e control of the Waimakiriri river, in order to give total immunity from floods. The schefne includes a diversion of the river atCoutt’s Island.

RAILWAY CLERK SERIOUSLY INJURED. WANGANUI, Dec. 9. A young man named James D. Hay, a. clerk in' the traffic office of'the Railway Depai'tment at Wanganui, had his left leg and right heel badly crushed last night through being run over by a wagon which was being shunted at Aramoho. He was riding a cycle towards the platform when it skidded, and he fell on the path in front of an oncoming wagon. He was removed to the hospital,* where his left leg was amputated at- the thigh. His condition is serious.