LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 23 October 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Members of the Mt. E'gmont Alpine Club are advised that the club evening to have been held to-morrow (Friday) is postponed for one week and Dr. Huist will deliver his lecture on Friday, October 31. Mr J. W. Major, for the past five ' yeans manager ol : the Eltham “Argus,” ; has resigned to take over the station- > ery business conducted at Eltham by Mr.s M. Jardine. Among successful students in the recent examinations of Victoria XJni- • versify College is Master Dan O’Dea, :of the Hawera High School, who (passed his terms for the first section 'jot the LL.B. degree in Latin, English ! and Constitutional History. ’ An eight-year-old girl, Jean Williami son, received a. fracture of the skull , and of oiiq ,leg at about .5.30 p.m. yesterday, when she was knocked down ■ by a car being driven up Carrington ltoad, New Plymouth. The injured girl , was apparently running across - the road in company with a younger girl named Ruby Fraser when the accident happened. The younger girl was not hurt. The parents of the injured child are Mr and Mrs ,T. G. Williamson, Norman Street, near where the accident happened, and they took her to the public hospital. Her condition last evening was considered serious. Cars driven by Messrs. A. Wills and G. Pickering respectively were involved hi a collision at the junction of Union Street with High Street, Hawera. at about 8 o’clock last evening. No personal injury was sustained though sli’fht damage was occasioned the two vehicles, the front bumper of Mr. Wills’ car being bent and: a rear mudguard of the other being buckled'. Mr. Wills was ’proceeding on High Street hi the direction of King Edward Park wbije Mr. Pickering was turning out , of "Union Street to travel on lUgh Street in the same direction as the other ear. The two vehicles were locked together but on separation by the , use of jacks were able to drive thorn , the scene. The steel hoocLwork of a sedan car < belonging to Mr W. O. Glonny saved 1 the. i.nterioir and chassis of the vehicle' < from destruction when a tree fell across i it at the Pa tea golf links yesterday afternoon. Fortunately, the car was 1 not occupied 'when a heavy squall of £ wind caused the tree of about 18 inches :£ diameter and some 70 feet long to crash j to the ground. While the force of the fall was broken to some degree by r the branches and foliage which prae- J tically buried the ear, the trunk struck g the hood with considerable force, shattering three of the glass panels and ( causing a deep depression ever one c door, together with numerous dents' in r the steel portions of the hood, but for 5 the resistance icif which the damage c must, have been much! more extensive, a Several, saw cuts of the tree were re- s quired before the car could bo released. r Tt was afterwards driven away under f its own power. Two other cars stand- * ing in front, and in the rear respect- 0 ively of Mr Glonny’s ear wwe damaged by branches to a minor extent.