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Kaikoura Star, Volume LIV, Issue 50, 28 June 1934, Page 2

Air Jack Suckling, a well-known cycle manufacturer in Christchurch, received severe head injuries when a bi-

cycle he was riding collided with a motor-car at the corner of Armagh and Barbadoes streets on Tuesday, and he died a little more than half an hour later in the Public Hospital.

A total of £l2OO more in fees has been collected by the North Canterbury Hospital Board in the three months of the present financial year than in the same three months last year. The secretary (Mr W. 8. Wharton) stated that from year to year an average of between 70 and 75 per cent, of all fees is written off.

The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail says that Gaston Richard, 53, the human cannonball, who has delighted circus patrons throughout the world, was killed when he emerged from retirement to appear at a fete in aid of crippled children. He was rammed down the muzzle of the cannon, but the charge was too weak, and he fell short, of the net prepared for his reception and broke his neck.

A sequel to the Ruawaro murder trial occurred in the Supreme Court, when, on the motion of Mr Munro, letters of administration ad bona colli gen da were granted by Mr Justice Herdman in the estate of Samuel Pender Lakey to Mr Oliphant, solicitor, of Auckland. The procedure, which is devised for the purpose of collecting the goods of the deceased person and disposing of them to the best advantage of his estate, means that Mr Oliphant, who is acting for the relatives of Lakey and Christabel Lakey in England, can immediately take any necessary step for the disposal of Lakey’s farm and stock at Ruawaro. The action represents a most unusual procedure, and from all aspects of the case it is believed to be unique in New Zealand.

Outdoor sports enthusiasts will find much to interest them in this week’s “New Zealand Free Lance.” F. T. Badcock, the noted Otago cricket coach, writes a page in review of the Australia—England tests in this week’s number. Norman A. McKenzie deals with the prospective Rugby tests between New Zealand and Australia. Girl basketball er s will find a good deal to interest them in the proposal, emanating from Canada, that the world champion Edmonton 11 Grads” team should visit the Dominion. There is a strong theatrical section, and social news from one

end of the country to the other. The picture section depicts floods in the north, the Wellington-Taranaki football match, skating on Red I*ake near .Christchurch, debutantes at Christchurch and Dunedin .and many other items from the week’s news