LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 9 February 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Shortly after midnight on Saturday the Turakina cheese factory was burned Nothing was saved, ihe factory nroduoedi about 200 tons yearly and had about 25 suppliers. Messrs Lovell and White, Hawera, local agents for Messrs Lovell and Christmas, London, have received instructions from their principals to donate £250 to the New Zealand earthquake relief fund.

Makcri Ivcrehoma, a native woman, residing at Tawhiti, received concussion as the result of a fall from a horse on Austin Road near Hawera yesterday morning. She was admitted to the Hawera Hospital and is progressing satisfactorily. At the time the woman was chasing some horses when her own mount shied and lurew her.

Injuries to his head and hands were received by George Woods “when his motor cycle struck a stationary pushcycle in Dixon Avenue, Hawera, at about 9.30 p.m. on Saturday. Mr Woods, dazzled by an approaching car, apparently did not notice a boy holding a bicycle on the side of the street. The boy jumped clear, but Mr Woods was thrown to the ground. Mr Woods was taken to the hosiptal to have several stitches in his car, and was subsequently discharged. Mr Woods is a young man employed by Mr Leod, Manaia Road, Manaia. Both cycles were extensively damaged.