DOMINION NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1937, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

STRUCK DOOR HANDLE. (Per Press Association—Copyright-). WELLINGTON- June 8. » The view- that door handles of care should point towards the ground instead of to the trout or back*-: w.ag expressed by Seniior-Sergt. Wade, giving evidence at an inquest at Petone on the death of Matthew Naismith Gough, aged eight, on May 31. The driver of the ear Emily Nina Wilkinson, describing the accident, said the child was caught by the handle. She stopped the, car almost- as soon as he fell. He died all nost- i i\i met lia tel y., Cori-stabl e /'Higgins said the-left front door handle was covfued with l|k)od hack to jthe shank point, faced towards the front and was not turned inwards. It was about five | inches Jong. ■"'£ The Coroner said it was evident the hoy was not looking where lie -was go-, ing, and the accident was purely accidental. He found death due to injuries to the chest, sustained thfqtigh colliding with a car. CHILD SUFFOCATED TAIHAPI'LNTune 9. Valerie, the four-in onths-old child of Mr K. Pearson, of Ruahine, was found dead yesterday. Death was due to suffocation, apparently through a cat sleeping in the cot. At the inquest this morning, the verdict was one of accidental death. HOMED TUNNEL. CHRISTCHURCH, June 9. A denial of rumours that the Horner tunnel job is unlikely to be completed was given by the Minister of'Public Works (Hon. R. Semple) to-clay. job has gone too far for it . to% be stopped now,” said Mr Semple. ‘‘We certainly will finish the work, though i it has been suspended until the summer months.” The Minister sard that all the men who were working at the Homer tunnel had now been transferred to other jobs. ROAD FREIGHTS. WELLINGTON, June 9. Concern at the Government’s policy respecting private road motor services competing with railways, was express--ed at a meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, and it was resolved to call for a report on the question with a view to action. WAR. MEMORIAL UNVEILED. CHRISTCHURCH, June 9. With simple dignity, Christchurch’s second war memorial—a column in the Cathedral grounds—was unveiled this morning bv Colonel Nicholls, Officer Commanding the Southern Command, in the presence of. Archbishop Julius, clergy and military. SUPPORT FOR B STATIONS. AUCKLAND June 9. 9 A resolution expressing the hope that B stations will continue to operate as independent services free from State control, was unanimously adopted by the Auckland Presbytery. The resolution was based on the ground that the Church had always stood for the widest freedom of speech for minorities, and that B stations had provided a valuable service to the Church; which it hoped to develop in various directions in the future. GUARANTEED DAIRY PRICES WELLINGTON, June 9. No announcement of the guaranteed price for next season’s dairy produce •will be made for some time. The Minister for Agriculture (the Hon. W. Lee Martin) said yesterday that, although he had already announced that the differential payment for butter over cheese would be increased from Ijd to 2d, the basic price would not be announced until the committee set up for the purpose had had an opportunity of investigating the altered • costs both on the farm and in the factory. BEQUEST TO CANCER SOCIETY. PATE A, June 9. A bequest of £SOO has been made to the New Zealand Branch of the British'Empire Cancer Campaign Society, under the will of Mr G. V. Pearce. Mr Pearce was member of Parliament for Patea from 1908 to 1911. FOUND DEAD. ASHBURTON, June 10. The body of James Maxwell, aged 70, who had been missing from Taurangi Old . Men’s Home since May 22, was found I in the riverbed, dead f° r some days, apparently peacefully. Maxwell had a wife and family at Chertsev.