LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 27 October 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A Hamilton telegram states that George Gilbert Truman, aged 15 years, accidentally shot himself through, the left lung when he was out shooting at Matamatn. nn Saturday afternoon. Hois not- expected to lire.

James ifilev, a, bricklayer, aged. 58, whose honie wqs in JJuncdin, was i ound -d'eacli aniq^g 1 the rocks on the .second) beach -at St. Glair yesterda y morning. He had been in. the water, but. it is not yet known how he met his death. lie was m married man without, a family.

As a result of falling from the wharf ait L'evonport, Auckland, a bov aged 10, Henry (’handler, whose parents reside at Dcvonport, was drowned. With Ms brother aged nine, 1 henry was gathering mussels when, he* .slipperli and fell into the water, being dead when .rescued. The boy was picked up by a dinghy which went to his, assistance.

A \vom;m who wa.s struck by ;i traniear in Queen Street, Auckland, on Thursday evening, Airs Elizabeth Jane Martin, aged 63, died in hospital on Saturday night. Airs Alartin was knocked down heavily, received severe head injuries and was rendered unconscious.

No less than 27 horses left this morning by the S o’clock train for VVaverlev. The scene at, the station, where Mr. John Cahill was in charge, was a busy one, hut all were dispatched with the utmost expedition. Twelve were expected by the- mail train from North Taranaki anti the balance of the competing horses from the Wanganui and Wellington areas.

In l swerving to avoid two young men on a motor cycle at GoniviUe on Saturday- evening a ear driven, by the Mayor of Wanganui, Mr W. -T. Rogers, just missed) a telegraph pole and crashed into ui -shop. Airs Rogers' sustained a cut. on the temple which had to be stitched. The Mayor and l his three children escaped injury.

Revealing many masterpieces of motor-engineering the British industries exhibition was officially opened in Wellington by the Mayor, Mr G.' A. Troup, oil Saturday evening. Although the official ceremony took place at night, the exhibition was opened to the public in the afternoon, when many people availed themselves of the ■opportunity to inspect the many triumphs of* British workmansliq> that were on view. “The Golden Arrow',” the central attraction of the show, was the object of everyone’s attention. A demonstration of how to use a pea-ride and the subsequent accidental discharge of the gun resulted in severe injuries yesterday morning for Mrs Vera Cunningham, 35 Bridge Street, Lower Hutt. She received a bullet wound in her face. Mrs Cunningham’s husband, it is stated, was showing his wife how the rifle, which was sawn off, might be used as a revolver. He was unaware that a cartridge was in the barrel and found to his dismay when the gun w’ent off that Mrs Cunningham had been struck. The bullet entered Mrs Cunningham’s face on the left side of her nose and buried itself in her right cheek. She was admitted to hospital and is progressing satisfactorily.

It is not every day' that men may walk into the sea and pick up fish with their bare hands ad lib. Yet that is what actually occurred on the shore opposite McKee’s Bush, Tasman Bluffs. A school of about 100 porpoises was observed disporting themselves close inshore. Half-a-dozen men happened to be working in the bush opposite the spot at the time and downed tools to watch the sight. On approaching the shore they were amazed to find the nearby' water lashed almost to foam, this being caused by the frantic movements of thousands of kahawai, which were being headed shorewards by the skilled generalship of four porpoises after the manner of sheep dogs at work. The fish, which averaged 41b in weight, looked almost like a compact, mass. The men, in the excitement of the moment, dashed in amongst the fish, clothes and all, and within a couple of minutes secured a good basket, grabbing the slithery fish with their bare hands- and hurling them on to the beach. Incredible as it may' seem, one man w r ho lost his balance and received a ducking, avers that he was forced down by the pressure of tons of fish around him.

The trifling and neglectful treatment by' the. Government of the representations by the Wairarapa Progress League on the Rimutaka deviation was the subject of strong protests at a meeting of the league at Masterton yesterday. Pointed exception w r aa taken also to the failure of the Government to give even the courtesy' of a reply' to subsequent correspondence on the subject addressed to it by the league. A recent deputation was promised that the question of the deviation would be referred to the Railways Commission, and the commission later notified that evidence would be heard. The commission reported, however, without hearing evidence regarding the deviation, and the league has since received no reply' to its communications on the subject to the act-ihg-Prime Minister. The league yesterday' decided unanimously' to urge the acting-Prime Minister, as promised previously', to refer the matter of proceeding with the Rimutaka deviation to the Railway' Commission W'hieh previously sat, reconstituting the commission for that purpose.