HERE AND THERE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16865, 31 January 1929, Page 11

HERE AND THERE

(P.A, Messages.) Tlie executive of the South Island Dairy Association, meeting in Dunedin to-day, carried the following motion: “This executive is strongly of the opinion that the amending regulations of the Dairy Industry Act made in December last, insofar as they relate to the manufacture of cheese, should not have been passed until the industry had been consulted, and that tlie Minister bo asked to defer their enforcement, at any rate in the South Island, until after the annual conference in June.” Thomas O’Donnell, 35, Avho was seriously injured in a motor accident on the evening of January 23, died in the Palmerston North Hospital this morning. A ear driven by deceased’s brother met another on the roadway near Shannon and a collision occurred. O’Donnell’s car falling down a bank 30ft. Deceased Avas the only one of the four | occupants to be injured. ' A verdict of accidental droAvning was returned at the inquest- in Napier today on the two hoys, Douglas and MacFarlane, who lost their lives in the Inner Harbor on Thursday last. The Coroner said it was summertime’s toll of young life. The evidence sleeved that a 'severe gale sprang up after a thunderstorm while the- boys were sailing. The suggestion of .death from strychnine poisoning in the case of Laura Freda LeAvis, reported at Auckland yesterday, has been entirely disproved by the results of a post-mortem examination. Dr. Gilnjour, hospital pathologist, says it was impossible to diagnose cerebral haemorrhage, Avliich Avas actually the cause of death. He had known of only two similar cases.

In Wellington to-day, Roy Gilo Cudby, 2b, a thief with a bad record, was given three years’ reformative detention for theft from a sailor and ordered to come up for sentence on eight other charges if called on within three years. He had been visiting ships at night and going through the clothing of the crew. The amount involved "was £63 10s. Patrick Francis Cooney, 41, a farming contractor, who was injured on Tuesday through a collision Avith a car .while motor cycling near Charltin, died in the Gove Hospital last- night. He leaves a Avidow and several children, aged lrom US’years to a few months. The evidence at the inquest to-day completely’ exonerated Erskine Br.wmar, the driver of the car. and the Coroner returned a verdict- of accidental death. The body of a female child, evidently stillborn, in an advanced state of decomposition, Avas found to-day in the tidal Avater by tlie Exhibition grounds in Dunedin. ______