TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22258, 10 May 1934, Page 11

TELEGRAMS

(Peg United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Mly 0. Knocked down by a motor truck- at Lower Hutt on May 2, 1933, Arthur Harrison, a clerk, brought an action in tin* Supreme Court to-day to recover £IOBO 4s damages from William Copping and Purvis Robert Sisson, the owner and driver respectively of the vehicle. He was awarded £62 10s special and £l5O general damages. Mr Justice Reed said that it seemed to him that the only explanation of the accident was that the driver of the truck must have cut the corner. The anuual report of the chief librarian (Mr J. Nome) to the City Council sets out record figures in each department and branch of library work in the city. Well over 500.000 books were issued to subscribers during the 12 months ended March 31 without taking into account many thousands of readers who have visited the reference and reading rooms each monih. REEFTON, May 9. , The Conciliation Council which has been set up in connection with the Blackwater- and Alexander Mines strike sat all day yesterday. This morning the representatives of the Blackwater management made an offer to submit an increased schedule provided the Miners’ Union allowed a secret ballot on the schedule submitted. They declined to disclose the schedule until the union had replied. The council is still sitting. CHRISTCHURCH. May 9. A human skull, with a portion fractured, was found in the Stunner estuary. It has been handed over to the police, who are investigating. It had been lying in the mud and was very discoloured. It may be that of someone who disappeared fairly recently. On the other hand, one authority inclined to the belief that it belonged to a Maori female.