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Northern Advocate, 21 June 1937, Page 4

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A SINGLE woman, Miss Dorothy Helen White, aged 27 years, of 27 Peveril Street, Riccarton, who was found lying beside a motor cycle off which she had apparently fallen on the Main North Road on the Christchurch side of Norwood Station, on Saturday morning, died in the Christchurch Hospital at 9.45 o’clock on Sat - urday evening.—(P.A.).

mV** JgNGAGED oh its last flight after the air pageant yesterday, one of the Canterbury Aero Club’s machines ran out of petrol and made a forced landing in North Hagley Park, near the Christchurch Public Hospital, at about 4.30 p.m. No one was injured and the aeroplane was undamaged.'

Spartans lined up on the starting . board at the Te. Arp Baths, Wellington, on Saturday morning to compete in the annual Devon - port Cup race, conducted by -the Early Morning Winter Swimming Club. A keen southerly was blowing, and thd temperature of the water was 49 degrees. The race was over a distance of 50 yards, and was won from scratch by S. M. King.—(P.A.). . 1 . ;

rpHE new Union Company motor ship Waiana arrived at''Auckland .early yesterday morning on her maiden voyage from Glasgow, under the command of Captain A. H. Howie. She is to replace the steamer Wingatui, and her first cargo for Auckland is 500 tons of phosphate.—(Special). • ® *. • • police headquarters were the object of a hoax last night when they receivpd an urgent telephone message shortly after 8 o’clock saying that a young woman had been stabbed and lay seriously wounded in a building in Customs Street East. Police officers were immediately driven to the building, but no one in the building had heard of the supposed stabbing where a further round of inquiries were made before the hunt was abandoned. —(Special).

J>EPORTS and suggestions relating to the proposal for the establishment of a national sports council were received from southern sports bodies during the week-end by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry.—(Special). ■ • w m JNCLUDED in the will of the late Mr Allen Alfred Bowler, a pioneer settler, of the Te Aroha district who died at Te Aroha on May 24 this year, bequests amounting to £2450 are made. Hie will makes provision for £ 1000 for the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association, and after other bequests the residue is left to the Jubilee Institute for the Blind at Auckland.—(Special).

B y a majority decision, the Ponsonby Bowling Club has rescinded a motion carried at a meeting last year. It was decided, by a margin of only four votes, not to permit play on Sunday on the club’s green.—(P.A.).

f’J'HE coroner, Mr. W. L. Richards, at an inquest concerning the death in the Rotorua Public Hospital on Tuesday morning of a three-year-old child named James Dean, returned a verdict that death was due to cardiac failure following the administration of an anaesthetic, and prior to the performance of a necessary and urgent operation in an effort to save the child’s life. —(P.A.) » * » *• Roman Catholic Cathedral in Barbadoes Street, and St. Mary’s Church, in, Manchester Street, Christchurch, were both entered by thieves on Friday night and the offertory boxes were rifled. — (Press Assn.)

SHOOTING fatality occurred on Saturday morning at Rototahi station, East Coast. The victim was a 14-year-old school boy, Riwai Paenga, who took a shotgun and, in company with a cousin, aged eight years, went shooting. When he was climbing through a fence, the weapon discharged, and Riwai was shot dead. — (Press Assn.)