LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16704, 23 July 1928, Page 12

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

(P.A. Messages.) While playing in a second-grade Rugby football match, Taieri v. Port Chalmers, in Duuedin on Saturday, Hugh Paterson, 22, fractured his right leg and was removed to hospital. The work in Feilding of the Government Commission in hearing evidence in connection with the luting of farm lands in boroughs, concluded on Saturday. The chairman indicated that the commission would adjourn to Wellington, where the sittings would be resumed on Tuesday. Interested persons from any part of the Dominion may attend. Evidence would be welcomed by the commission.

At tho inquest on George Appleyard, 47, a farmer, who was struck on Saturday week by an express train while driving a farm wagon over a level crossing near Hawera station, the jury returned a verdict in accordance witti the medical evidence—that death had resulted from a fractured skull. No blame was held to be attachable to the engine-driver. A rider to the verdict described the crossing as dangerous and recommended the installation of the automatic alarm system. Just before 1 a.m. on Sunday the fire brigade was called to attend to a blaze in a two-floored seven-roomed building in the grounds of St. Patrick's College, Cambridge Terrace, Wellington. The building was used as a science laboratory) a gymnasium, and a recreation hall. The science room on the ground floor and its contents were severely damaged by fire and water, and the rest of the building and contents were damaged by heat and smoke. No insurances are available.

Three boys, aged 134, W> ll!1( ' 16 entered into a series of escapades which brought them before the Children's Court in Christehurch. The charges were breaking and entering; and theft, involving £2l. The two elder boys were committed to the care of the State and ordered to refund £2 8s 6d each as soon as passible after release on license. The youngest boy was placed under the supervision of the Child Welfare Officer for two years. Failure to control her son led to a mother being robbed of a considerable portion of a sum of money left\ her by her mother. The amount stolen has not been disclosed, but evidence heard in the court on Saturday was that the boy had taken all but £35. The boy, who did not attend court as he had promised, was committed to the care of the State and a warrant was is sued for his apprehension.