POINTS FROM THE NEWS

Northern Advocate, 20 January 1936, Page 6

POINTS FROM THE NEWS

rnHE Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, and the Minister of Mines, the Hon. P. C. Webb, after visiting the Kokatahi and Humphreys districts on Saturday, left yesterday for South Westland, where they inspected the Okarito Harbour works. At Kokatahi the settlers requested the utilisation of the Toaroha Falls in hydro-electrical developments. Mr Semple promised to have surveys made of Westland hydro resources. , ,

rpHROWN from a horse at a friend’s farm. Mary Hogg, aged 14 years, daughter of Mr and Mrs C. Hogg, of Mangawhare, Northern Wairoa, suffered severe internal injuries on Friday. Apparently the horse reared and threw the girl to the ground. She was taken to her parents’ home, where an operation was performed. Her condition is regarded as grave.

W ffl LE riding a motor cycle on the main south road about a mile and a half south of Ross, Westland, yesterday afternoon, Mr Duncan McLean, a sawmill engineer, employed at Perry and Company’s mill at Kakpotahi, South Westland, met with a fatal accident. The body was found underneath his burning motor cycle, which was practically destroyed.

the car she was driving along the Hutt Road was hit by a taxi driven by Mr Owen Lester Jarrett, at the intersection of Beaumont Avenue, Lower Hutt, at 8.15 on Saturday last, Mrs Lilian Ellen Lowery, aged 64, of Oriental Parade, Wellington, was killed instantly, and a man sitting next to her, Mr Charles Mildenhall, of Oriental Parade, suffered a fracture of the right leg, severe head injuries, and concussion. Three passengers in the taxi escaped with only minor cuts. The cars collided almost head-on, and Mrs Lowery’s was badly smashed.

rjpHE opinion that English secondary schools are not up to the standard of those in New Zealand was expressed by Mr J. N. Peart, the new headmaster of King’s College, Auckland, in an interview on his arrival by the Remuera from London yesterday morning.

J>ONALD Furness Sinclair, aged 21, single, a labourer, of Greymouth, was killed instantly late on Saturday night, when he was crushed under a heavily-laden lorry, which capsized over a bank at a bend on the main highway between Totara Flat and Raupo. The driver of the lorry, Arthur Hepburn, of Hokitika, was seriously injured and was . sent to hospital. Three other men, Kenneth Allen, Ronald Grafton, and Ernest Shackleton, escaped serious injury. Owing to the weight of the lorry, and its load, it was several hours before the victim could be extricated.