DEATH FROM BURNS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24557, 13 April 1943, Page 2

DEATH FROM BURNS

CLOTHES CAUGHT FIRE LITTLE MAORI GIRL (0.C.) OPOTIKI, Monday The death occurred at the Opotiki Hospital shortly after admission of a Maori girl. She was Hiria Pukepuke, aged six. Death resulted from extensive burns to tin; upper part of the body, arms and head. The girl, with other children, was in front of an open lire when fat was spilled on the flames. The girl's clothes caught fire and she ran outside looking for help. She became a human torch. Finally other children threw water over the girl, who by this time was severely burned. The tragedy occurred at Terere Pa, which is about a mile from Opotiki. There were no adults in the house at the time of the accident. CAPSIZED JEEP WHANGAREI ACCIDENT OFFICER DIES OF INJURIES (0.C.) WII.ANGABET, Monday One of the two airmen injured when a jeep capsized near the Whangarei borough boundary on Saturday afternoon, died in the, Whangarei District Hospital this morning. He was . Flying-Officer Henry St. Aubyn Murray, aged 55, widower. His next-of-kin is Flying-Officer A. St. J. Murray, 11.N.Z.A.F.

At an inquest, opened this afternoon, Dr. K. McN'amara said FlyingOfficer Murray when admitted, was seriously ill with shock, fractured ribs, laceration of the lungs, and a broken left collarbone and a broken arm. He rallied but finally collapsed at four o'clock this morning. Evidence was given by FlightLieutenant Gates that deceased left on Saturday afternoon in a jeep driven by Flight-Lieutenant Rowcliffe on a visit to an army unit. PLUNGE OVER BANK CAR PASSENGERS INJURED (0.C.) HAMILTON, Monday When the car in which they were travelling failed to negotiate a bend on the Otorohanga main road three Frankton residents, Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Chung and their daughter, were involved in a motor accident on Saturday. Two car loads of Chinese residents were proceeding to the Waitomo Caves when one of the cars missed the bend near a new overhead bridge and plunged over a bank, somersaulting several times. Mrs. Chung received an injury to the back and Miss Kathleen Chung received concussion and abrasions. Mr. Chung received minor bruises. Mrs. Chung and Miss Chung were removed to the Waikato Hospital.

LIQUOR TRADE INVESTIGATION URGED The policy of the National Party to have a Royal Commission, presided over by a Judge, set up to investigate the licensing laws and the conduct of the liquor trade was announced by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr.' S. G. Holland, in his address in the Town Hall last night. He said the recommendations would be submitted to the people for their endorsement. Mr. Holland said he was confident that all sections of the community would agree that nothing was more necessary than overhaul and reform of the licensing laws. They were completely out of date and unsuited to present-day conditions, and many evils and anomalies demanded correction. He was determined to face that responsibility fairly and squarely. TRADES HALL POWER "DOMINATION MUST CEASE" "Domination of Parliament by the Trades Hall must cease," said the Leader of the Opposition, Mr S. G. Holland, last night, in citing the recent case of the suspension of the Controller of the Commercial Broadcasting Service, Mr. C. G. Scrimgeour, as an example of Government policy being reversed at the dictation of outside influences. Whether the methods adopted in getting rid of Mr. Scrimgeour were right or wrong—and he did not agree with them—it: did not improve the position when the Prime Minister and his colleagues had to back down as soon as the big trade unions exerted pressure.

SATISFIED SETTLERS WAIKATO LAND SCHEME Keen satisfaction with the results of the Waikato Land Settlement Society was expressed by its founder, Mr. D. V. Bryant, at yesterday's meeting of the Auckland Rotary Club. Mr. Bryant recalled that at the time the project was mooted a depression existed, yet when he and those associated with him sought a fund of £20,000 to operate a land scheme for the benefit of unemployed who wished to go on the land and work for a farm of their own, £27,000 was subscribed. A block of 8000 acres was purchased and there were now 30 farmers definitely settled on their own holdings._ In spite of initial difficulties, including the eczema epidemic, all these settlers had made good. Not one- had any desire to sell his section or to go back to the wage-earning class "The experiment," said Mr. Bryant, "showed that these unemployed were just as good as the rest of us once they had'a chance." SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS (0.C.) WHANG AREI, Monday Sympathy with the Hikurangi and Kamo Miners' Medical Association in its desire to retain a doctor for the district. was expressed by members of the Whangarei Hospital Board to-day. The chairman said county residents were also without a doctor, and it was disturbing that people were being ordered to hospital without previous medical attendance. The board pledged itself not to take any action detrimental to efforts being made to obtain a doctor for Hikurangi*