Points From The News

Northern Advocate, 8 January 1938, Page 5

Points From The News

rm-iE body of Mr Joseph Adam Mosley, who was thrown from the engine of a train yesterday into Coal Creek, was recovered to-day as a result of dragging, says a Greymouth message. s': WORK on the first group of six * * dwellings to be erected under the Government housing scheme in Cambridge commenced on Thursday. Eventually 20 State houses will be erected in Cambridge.—Special. \ S in previous years, the annual 4 sheep trek from Poverty Day and East Coast districts to the Waikato has begun, with several thousand sheep ready to make the journey. If is stated that 250,000 breeding ewes will have been sen! by the end of March Special-

/ ATHER new channels of trade have F been opened up with the inauguration of shipping services to the Dominion from Singapore, Japan and the Dutch East Indies. Several ships arriving in Auckland from the East now bring cargoes transhipped from South Africa, South America and the Continent, mainly by means of linking services provided by Japanese and Dutch lines.—Special.

/CONSTRUCTION work on the East - Coast railway between Waikokopu and Gisborne will resume on Monday, when about 800 men will return to their work after the Christmas and New Year holidays.—Special.

VTO trace lias been found of Robert Tavendale. a boy who has been missing from his home at Kaiapoi since. Tuesday. Dragging was tried vosterday without result, and search parties also tried netting the deeper holes of the Cam River, in which it is thought the boy may have fallen.— (P.A.)

A POSITIVE case of scarlet fever is 4 reported from the children’s health camp at the Waimate High School, according to Dr. A. Gentry Pitts. The victim is a small girl, who developed a suspicious rash and was isolated after arriving at the camp.—(Special.) ■* 4 $ A UCKLAND wharves will again be ■ ‘ busy during the week-end. Seven deep-sea ships are due between to-day and Monday, and it is anticipated that 13 large ships, among which will be the liners Aorangi, Mataroa, Rangitane. Rotorua and Wanganella, will be berthed on Monday. By Monday there will also be a German steamer, an American liner, and two Japanese motor ships.—Special.

REVERE turns to the arms, legs and v ' face were received by Mr Chas. Orlando Roseoe, married, aged 47, as a result of a drum of methylated spirits exploding in his grocery shop in Waiuku on Thursday. He was brought to the Auckland Hospital to undergo an operation, and his condition last night was reported to be serious.—Special.

* A N unavailing search was made ' again yesterday for the body of the boy who was swept from the rocks and drowned at the boat harbour at Sumner on Thursday afternoon, and for his sister, who has not been seen since a few seconds before the tragedy. The children were Ronald Joseph Thomas, aged 12, and Irma Thomas, aged 11.—IP. A.)

/'jjN a charge of theft at Pongaroa of £lO4 0/9, the property of the Pukotoi Football Sub-Union, Thomas Leclis Alexander, aged 29. was arrostcci in Masterton yesterday. The accused appeared later at the Masterlon Police Court, and was remanded to appear at Palmerston North on January 10.—(P.A.)