Points From The News

Northern Advocate, 30 March 1938, Page 3

Points From The News

J NFORMATIGN has been received by the Gisborne Harbour Board that two nominees have been appointed as Government representatives to j the harbour board. They are Mr Wilj liam Clark, a farmer, and Mr Richard j Murray, late of the Police Force, both I connected with the Labour movement, j They replace Mr George Smith and jMr J. B; Broadhurst. both of whom j have had lengthy service for the I board. —(Special). ] * * t! * j r pHE appointment of Mr R. E. Cairns. of Lyttelton, as the Government representative cn the Lyttelton Harbour Board is announced. Mr Cairns replaces Mr W. T. Lester, whose term expires next month. Mr Cairns is a waterside worker, and is a member of the Lyttelton Borough Council. He is secretary-treasurer' of the Lyttelton branch of the New Zealand Labour Party.—(P.A.). i # :{J * 1 JJE was a menace to the public. Ho should not have been in charge of a petrol lorry.” said Mr J. K. Miller, S.M.. in the Hastings Police Court yesterday, when fining Thomas Henry Abrams, lorry driver, of Wellington. £2O and costs, for being intoxicated in charge of a petrol lorry. Accused’s license was suspended for ‘ one year.— (P.A.). j

THE condition of the patients in the Wanganui Hospital as the result cf Saturday’s railway disaster shows an improvement, except in the case of the fireman, Mr K. Miller, who is still in a critical condition.— (P.A.). * # * THE general funds of the Labour Party may shortly benefit by a donation of £IOOO from the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Employees’ Association. The question of making the gift will be decided by ballot among members of the association, of whom there are about 10,000 throughout the Dominion. — (P.A. >. tf * * *l* WHEN his horse look fright, throwing him heavily. Abraham Haira, 13-year-old schoolboy of Horo Horo, was killed instantly on the Atiamuri Road, nine miles from Rotorua. The accident was witnessed by a passing motorist who summoned the police and the ambulance, but it was found that the boy’s neck had been broken. — (P.A.).

i GIFT of £3OOO has been made by | an Auckland resident to "the Presbyterian Church Thanksgiving Centenary Fund. The contribution is in instalments of £ 1000 a year for three years.—(Special). fjpHE health camp at Rangiora. which opened on November 29. ended yesterday. More than 220 children from all parts of Canterbury and the West Coast have passed through the camp this surrlmer. Carefully-kept statistics show that each child gained from 21bs to Clbs in weight, and several instances were noted of children gaining from a quarter of an inch to one inch in height.—(P.A.). t'.i 5? O ■jl/FR Richard Hughes, a married man aged about 64, was found hanging in an out-building at his residence in Timaru yesterday.—(P.A.). MAORI, Mr John Moses Davis, aged 27. died in hospital as a result of severe injuries received in a collision between a motor car and his motor cycle on the WhakataneTauranga highway near Pikowai last Friday.—(P.A.).