DOMINION NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14702, 1 June 1920, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Press Associations); - WELLINGTON, May *3l William Combs wis killed: ■ and; JohnTillev mtured through a •collißio'li-with a motor lorry 111 Jcrvois Quay. ■ Combs, who- received injuries to hia head - and shoulders and who died m : hospital late-to-night; was a married man. and resident of Ongaonga. Hawkc's Bay. Tilley's condition is not considered serious There has been decline,entile of cases of infectious diseases reported. m Wellington HealthDistrict during the past week. The pcrsition' has improved to such an extent that the health authorities have decided to.jjJlow the. schools -to re-open to-'morrow, .after the.: term holidays. A jtuimber of ;clncken-pox cases are report-ed:.-from;: various parts of the district, but the outbreak is not serious.. ..This•disease has been made notifiable on aev count of- the outbreak of . small-pox- - in?, Invercargiil CHRISTCHURCH May 31 ■Before the Prince, left. New Zealand i •he :\vrote a message specially 'for the i children of the Dominion. The message nvas distributed to the headmasters of schools with instructions that it should be read to the children when Ithev reassembled. This instruction was I carried out to-day in the Christcliurch I schools.