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RESCUED AFTER NIGHT IN SNOW LAUNCESTON, August 14. After being snowed-iu on iVit. Arrow smith for 15 hours, eight occupants of li service car were rescued early to-dav. The rescue party had to trudge two miles through snow three feet deep. Their car could not travel through the snow. The stranded passengers had run out :if provisions. The rescue? party left food and blankets and then returned to Queenstown to get gear for the service car. The service ear reached Queenstown at 3.30 p.m. The driver, J. Goggins said the service ear was stranded through the tyre chains breaking. Thd car was then within two miles of the top of the mountain. Two of the men w» Iked back for three miles and found a stranded lorry on which were provisions. The car carried eight passengers. DEATH FOR A PENNY. NEW YORK, August 14. Because she refused to give him a penny, Stanley Dobruk, 11, shot and killed his 14-year-old sister, Frances. The boy, who lives at Mount Clemens (Michigan), said Le put a bullet in Uie rifle and aimed it at his sister to frighten her. “Then the gun wu nt off and she fell,” lie added.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1939, Page 7
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