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Northern Advocate, 30 March 1937, Page 6

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TTENRY Emery ; a Maori, who was admitted to the Waikato Hospital yesterday, from Otorohanga, with a gunshot wound in the stomach, died last night. An inquest was held this afternoon. — (Press Assn.) * * * rpHE New Zealand Labour Party Conference yesterday donated £IOO to the King George V Memorial Fund for the establishment of children’s health camps.—(P.A.). m * a • M R James Roberts, secretary of the Watersiders’ Federation, today was elected president of the New Zealand Labour Party.—Press Assn. B * * • lyj'R E. J. Mackrell,'Minister of Labour for the Victorian Government, arrived by the Awatea today to investigate the unemployment relief and placement service in New Zealand. — Press Assn. , *** * * ' YOUNG man, Mr Jack Stringer, aged 28, died on Saturday at Roxburgh, from injuries suffered when a horse he was exercising fell on the Roxburgh trotting course. — (P.A.). » • • • Wednesday a fishing boat was found in the upper reaches of the Kaipara Harbour. There was no one in it. On Good Friday a search party located the body of the owner, Mr Jakov Kavalinovich, aged 58, of Helensville. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental drowning.—(Special). * * 4* • WHEN a sedan car in which were a young couple, married only a few hours previously, and two other,, occupants crashed over a 30ft bank in the Buffer Gorge near Berlins, yesterday afternoon, the bridegroom, Mr Vernon Raynor, aged about 24, who was driving, was severely cpt about the head and face and lost a great deal of blood before he could be admitted to the. Westport Hospital. His wife escaped almost without scratch. — (P.A.).

JpROM Thursday last, all motor tyres will be increased by 5 and 10 per cent. The lower increase applies to tyres with cross-section up to sJin., and the larger increase "above that dimension. —Press Assn.