Points From The News

Northern Advocate, 24 January 1939, Page 3

Points From The News

T>ATHERS at Petone were alarmed on Saturday afternoon when a 10J'ool shark was seen cruising off the beach. The police were informed so that measures for the safety of the public could be taken, but the big fish disappeared and was not seen again. Two boys rowing a small boat not far from the beach sighted the shark only a yard or two from their frail craft. They made for the shore, but the shark did not follow them.

N° trace has been found of Raymond Patrick Lelton, aged 32, who escaped from the yard at the Central Police Station. Auckland, on Sunday afternoon. Arrested on Sunday afternoon, Letton made an unsuccessful attempt to gain his freedom by breaking away from the constable, who caught him again. On the second occasion he climbed a water pipe, running up a 20-foot wall.

body of Mr Roy Francis Mackenzie, of Christchurch, one of two men drowned in a boating accident at Buckley’s Bay, Lyttelton Harbour, on January 14, was recovered yesterday afternoon.

■yyHEN Mr W. C. Smith, a farmer of Esk Valley, entered a whare at the back of a house where his father and brother had been living, he found his brother, Ivan Sanderson Smith, aged 28, also a farmer, dead with a shotgun wound over his heart and a gun beside him. Deceased was a son of Mr C. C. Smith, chairman of the Hawke’s Bay County Council.

mHE Awatea had a record passenger list of 691 when she arrived at Wellington. The New Zealand contingent of 600 Boy Scouts to the International Jamboree at Sydney brought the number of the Awatea passengers to arrive at Auckland last week and at Wellington today, to the two largest totals ever carried across the Tasman Sea by a single vessel in regular services.