DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 December 1925, Page 11

DOMINION NEWS.

WANGANUI MEAT COMPANY

(by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) . a WANG ANUI, Dec. 23. After last season’s losses, it is understood that the Wanganui Meat Freezing Company, which has been established for 36 year's, is unable to buy fat stock this season. At the company’s annual meeting last week a committee was set up, to confer with the directors with a view to- (assisting th© company over its difficulties. In the meantime the company is freezing on behalf of clients, and also carrying on its butter and cheese storage, works, the abattoir, and retail shops. It is not yet known what will be the outcome of the committee’s deliberations, but there is 'a strong feeling among settler® that the company must be kept going. A LUCKY MOTOR. C YCLIST. WHANGAREI, Deo. 23. An amazing escape from injury occurred last evening, when T. R. Ghrisie, a married man, aged 30, while riding a motor-cycle crashed into a railway engine at Kamo Road crossing. He was flung from liis machine on to the cow catcher of the engine head downwards, ancl remained balanced in that position for thirty yards, until the train pulled up. His cycle was badly smashed, but Christie got off seath less. AN UNEXPECTED TRIP. WELLINGTON, Dee. 23. A hospital patient was .taken aboard the Wahin© this morning for passage to Lyttelton. The steamer was filled with passengers for the daylight trip, and sailed with such punctuality that the ambulance driver and an assistant who were seeing to th© patient’s comfort, were carried away. Another driver had to be sent to return tlio ambulance to the hospital. SOLDIER SETTLER KILLED. . BLENHEIM, Dec. 23. Frederick Langelot Donkin, aged 43, a married man, was killed yesterday through a motor lorry running back over the edge of a road at Elevation, near Picton. The vehicle fell 20 feet into a gully. The driver was pinned underneath, and liis plight was not discovered for several hours. When found he was quite dead. The deceased was a major in the Royal Field Artillery, and served in the South African and Great War. He was a soldier settler at Erina. His wife and a’ son, aged 11, are in England. A SYDNEY CASE. WELLINGTON, Dec. 23. William Henry Curtis, alias George H. Lacey, a musician, aged 43, who was arrested aboard 'the Makura on December 7, was charged a,t the Magistrate’® Court to-day with wounding Annie Louisa Tim,son, ah Sydney on November 30, with intent to murder her.

The police stated that when taken to the detective office the accused produced a bloodsfaned shirt, which he said he was wearing at the time of the assault. He also .produced a bloodstained handkerchief, with which lie had wiped his hands. Detective Sergeant Matthews, of the Sydney Police Force applied for an extradition warrant. The application Was granted and the accused will return to Sydney with Detective Sergeant Matthews' by the Maunganui tomorrow.

SHIP’S PDIMSOL MARK SUBMERGED. WELLINGTON, Dec. 23. Captain Ringer van. der Hagan, master of the oil-tanker Agwipond, was charged before Mr Page, S.M., with bringing a. ship into port with the plimsol mark submerged. Mr Prenderyille, for the Marin e , Department, said there had been several prosecutions on similar charges, and steps were being taken to have the maximum penalty increased to £IOOO. The mark this time was It- inches under the wat.er. In March the same defendant was fined £25 for having the m.nrk submerged 141 inches. The defendant attributed the offence to a difference in the specific gravity of oil from that carried on the previous trip', when the mark had been ~l°ar. |le had done his best not t r break the law. He was fined £25.