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Northern Advocate, 23 March 1937, Page 10

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gO far there has been no sign of the two young Maoris and a young European woman* who, at different times between Friday afternoon and midnight on Saturday, escaped from the Auckland Mental Hospital. Parties of police have scoured the countryside in cars, and all police stations are keeping watch, but there is no trace of the missing patients. It is considered highly unlikely that any one of the three is dangerous, or would harm anyone.— (Special.) W mLE cycling along the main North Road, near Oamaru, on Saturday night, Mr George Bilton, : married, aged 40 years, of Richmond, was knocked down by a car driven by Mr Adam Ebenezer Lindsay, of Oamaru. He suffered injuries from which he died. Another. cyclist, Mr Andrew Bain, was carried a chain further on. He received injuries, but was able to go home. — (Press Assn.) « * * * ,-\V ARM favourites for this- year’s Davis Cup contest, members of the Australian team, J. H. Crawford (captain), A. K. Quist, V. B. McGrath and the 18-year-old John Bromwich, with C. E. Sproule as manager, arrived in Auckland by the Niagara from Sydney yesterday. In the afternoon they played brilliant exhibition matches. —(Special). ♦ * # ♦ A FATAL accident occurred yesterday at Otahuhu, when a milk van, driven by Mr Hugh Tollemache Anderson, aged 40, of Seddon Terrace, Otahuhu, capsized. Mr Anderson suffered a fractured skull and serious head injuries from which- he died later at the Auckland Hospital.— (Special.) • • • • A DECISION to ask the Mayor of Hamilton to convene a public meeting to consider sending a Red Cross unit to Spain was made at a meeting of Hamilton Labour Represenation Committee, at which 26 gates, representing the Labour Party and trade unions, attended. An address was given by Mr C. J. Barrell, M.P. • as * • ■p'OURTEEN. days’ hard labour and suspension of his license for one year was the sentence imposed on Harold Ralfe, 41, for being intoxicated in charge of a motor car, says a Napier message. The magistrate remarked that there were too many cases of that class in the district. —P.A. « * • * fT'WO young men, Norman Cameron and Thomas William Fountain, who stowed away on the Niagara on the trip from Sydney to Auckland, ap-

peared before Mr W. R. McKean, S.M., at the Auckland Police Court this morning. They pleaded guilty and •were each sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment.—P.A.