DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1930, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

MOTOR, CYCLIST’S DEATH. FOLLOWS COLLISION. (By Telegraph—Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, August 10. Percival Charles Mooar, aged 18, years, who resided in Addington, died in the hospital this morning from injuries received when a motor cycle he was riding collided with a car on the Main South Road yesterday. His companion on the pillion seat, Thomas Samuels, aged 19, received head injuries, hut hits condition is not causing anxiety. LAUNCH MISSING. ’ AUCKLAND, August 10. ; 'The thirty-six foot launch, Nictoa, with two brothers aboard, Alec and Ken , McCallum, lias been reportecT missing. The launch, which was leased by the two men for a fishing excursion, | left Ivaiaua, near Clevedon at 4.30 last Thursday morning for Aucklantl,; to obtain fishing gear. The launch should have reached Auckland' the same afternoon. The boat was ex pected to call at Clevedon to get a dinghy,, but it is not known wl-et*.er it put in there. KILLED IN COLLI SION. WELLINGTON, August 10. John O’Shea, aged 20, of Rangfora, Avenue, Kawarra, was killed outright when his motor cycle‘collided with a riiotoi* bits near the Northland tunnel at 7.22 p.m. on Saturday. MAORI DROWNED. WHAKATANE, August 10 A native, William Simon,, aged 27 years, was drowned yesterday at Whakatane Heads. His dinghy, being overloaded witli mussels capsized, and be sank almost immediately, being unable to swim. His two companions swam to the shore in an exhausted condition. The body has not yet been recovered.