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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16376, 25 June 1927, Page 15

HERE AND THERE

(Press Association Messages)

Horace Alabaster, a milk vendor, was seriously injured this morning through his car'going over a 70 to 80 feet, ftnnlc on Durie Hill, Wanganui. The ear if a complete wreck. Alabaster's son, who was driving with him at the time, was thrown out hallway down the bank and escaped injuries. An event m which much public interest was manifested took place- in Whangarei to-day, when the handsome new offices of the .Northern Advocate were opened and the tHggest Cossar tint-bed rotary printing machine in Australia or New Zealand was officially started by the. Mayor. Many congratulatory messages attesting to this evidence of the growing importance of the North were received. As tlie result of a collision between his motor-cycle and a motor-car, Thomas Horace Ellis is in hospital in Auckland in a serious condition. • The steamer Wanaka was towed out of Auckland harbor by a tug this morning, to be sunk outside the hundredfathom limit. \

The eighth annual conference of the Bank Officers' Guild' was held in Wellington'this week. The membership was reported to have now reached 2400. The following officers were elected: President, Air. Biunton (Wellington); vicepresidents, Messrs. Bl'OWil (Auckland), Dixon (Wellington). Wrighton (Christchurch), and Jack (Dunedin); executive committee, Bank of New Zealand, Messrs. V. Edwards. H. Edwards and Hawkins; National Bank of New Zealand, Messrs. Matthewsoii and Laing; Panic of Australia, Mr. Wyatt; Union Bank of Australia, Mr. Loney; Bank of New South Wales, Mr. Steele; Commercial Bank of Australia, Mr. Hulston; auditor, Mr Fret hey; life members. Messrs Henderson and King (Bank of New Zealand), and Baxter (Union Bank of Australia); general treasurer, Mr. Thorpe; general secretary, Mr. Mourant.

The body of a fully-dressed middleaged man,' John Edward Sunning, of Green Lane, was found on the waterfront at Dcvonport, Auckland, this morning.