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Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7493, 18 June 1934, Page 6

During the show, members of the Palmerston North Railway, Palmerston North Ambulance and Palmerston North Nursing Divisions of the St. John Ambulance Brigade were on duty at the Winter Show to deal with accidents. The condition of Mr. H. Dunn, of Oroua Downs, who, as a sequel to tho recent tragedy at Karerc, sustained very severe head injuries, is still practically unchanged. Mr. Duuu, after being unconscious for a whole week, became semi-conscious and lie is still in this state. The New Zealand Athletic, Cycling and Axemen’s Union has decided to hold a road race from Christchurch to Dunedin and return early in September if sufficient support is offering. Tho race will be run in four stages. A subcommittee was appointed to confer with South Canterbury and Otago. The purpose of tho proposed race is to select a team of riders to represent the Dominion in the big Melbourne Centenary £IOOO race of 1100 miles in October. A remand until next Wednesday was granted by Mr. 11. J. Lawry, S.M., in a case in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington on Saturday in which a 19-year-old electrician was charged with the theft of 265 United States dollars valued at £6O 15s 7d, tho property of Roy Williams, an American negro boxer, who is in Wellington oh his way from a visit to Australia. It was stated that accused was arrested on Friday afternoon. Bail was allowed of £IOO and his name was suppressed in the meantime on accused’s own application. The report of the consulting engineer, Mr. R. Worley, of Hamilton, on the new Taihape reservoir, which cost over £2500 and collapsed irretrievably, has been released for publication. It says the site is an excellent one, but the sandstone formation is lamentably lacking in tensile strength to resist the bursting force of water when only reinforced with two inches of junito lining. The report also says the old reservoir may be made adequate for the needs of the borough for many years at an outlay of about £220. The report exonerates the borough engineer completely and says reservoir building is specialised work. Therefore, the Borough Council made a mistake in not obtaining the advice of a consult ing engineer. It also says tho council should have placed uo reliance on gratuitous opinions of visiting engineers, since such opinions not paid for arc worth professionally what they cost. The report will be presented by the t&uftfiii to & plfiis meeting to-nighL