DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 December 1925, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS.

A BODY IDENTIFIED. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ' < AUCKLAND, Dec. 1/. The body which was found in the harbour early in November and was previously identified as that or John Gallagher, who afterwards proved to be alive, has now been ascertained to be that of James Hugh Murray, aged 50, a single man and a returned sob dier, who had worked at Whangarei and on scows in port. LINESMAN INJURED. NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec. 17.. A young married' man named E. Welsh, employed by the Telegraph Department, received severe injuries to his spine this morning. While working oh a lino he fell from a ladder. He was sent to the hospital for treatment. HEAVY CLAIM FOR DAMAGES, CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 17. An order against the publication of evidence was • made in the Supreme. Court this morning when Eva Rolton, a single woman, claimed from William Millner, a contractor of Sockburn, £SOO for alleged indecent assault, and £IOOO on a second charge of aggravated assault. The case is proceeding. FINED FOR RECKLESS DRIVING. MASTER-TON, Dec. 17. Arthur Lester Morgan was charged at the Magistrates’ Court with being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor-car, and that he drove the car recklessly. The information of drunkenness was dismissed, and the accused was fined £lO for reckless driving. His driver’s license was endorsed, and Morgan was prohibited from driving for three months. TIMBER INDUSTRY SLACK. TAIHAPE, Dec. 17. A large and representative meeting of*North Island sawmillers was held here yesterday to discuss conditions relating to the* industry. It was stated after the meeting hv a prominent sawmiller that, owing to the general slackness of the timber, trade, the mills would he closed down on December. 19, probably for a month, and if conditions did not improve in the meantime the question of working short time in the new vear would have to be considered.