DOMINION NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1937, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

ENTHUSIASTIC' YOUTH

(Per Press Association —Copyright).

AUCKLAND, August 11

,Of slight build and with an infectious) s,mih\. Dick Hettig, aged .14 years, the sop of a deceased New Zealand J soldier, who married the halfcaste !daughter of a German settler, arrived, to-dav by tlie Matua from Nnkfialpifa, .Tonga. He leaves tomorrow for .WarkWorth, where employment lias been found for him, on a farm by Mr, iN. G., Gribble, cf the Youth Employment Branch of the’ Labour Department.

The boy /wrote to Mr Gribble, on reading in a ...Yew Zealand newspaper that beys were wanted for farm, work. ( > Mr Gribble said that residents of Nukualofa subscribed a sum of money’ towards, the boy’s, outfit, arid tlie captain of the Matua handed him £l2 15s. : ' There will be little or nothing taken ftp in his 'wages to Reimburse, the Committee.

FIRE DAMAGES LIME WORKS

WANGANUI, August 12

A fire was discovered at the Waitotarailime works at 1 o’clock this morn-, ing. Ample water was available, hut no pumping aparatus. Tlie Wanganui brigade sent out two Inen with r an engine and saved portion of the works. '

A new plant was recently ordered but has hot arrived yet. The works are to reopen shortly.

RIDER INJURED

CHRISTCHURCH, August 13

Falling,in tile first race at Riccarton yesterday, one of the riders, Michael Bayley, of Timafu, was rendered unconscious. He was attended by Dr F. L. Scott, and taken to the hospital.

ELDERLY MAN INJURED

tJHRISTCHURCH, August 13

Knocked from his bicycle by a motor-car overtaking him on Papanui, road, an elderly man, Mr C. F. Drury, caretaker of the Methodist Church, Durham street, suffered head injuries last evening arid was admitted to the hospital.

A GENEROUS GIFT

j ] Vx ■'/" NELSON, August. 12. During*the ReV. B. Gina’ s mission At'' jbhfe' Iv’f ethodifit’ 6hurch it was announced, /that Mr Samuel Gorman, of (Nelson had given donations amounting to £SOOO towards the sending of a doctor tp the SoTofirPn Islands Mission.