NEWS BREVITIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 259, 23 January 1928, Page 9

NEWS BREVITIES

Horahora Power. The Horahora hydro-electric works are not yet generating up to their full capacity of 10,300 kilowatts. Seven of the eight turbines axe producing 9,000 kilowatts.

Tar Pipe Bursts. —The borough foreman at Taihape, Mr. Jamieson, received painful injuries cn Friday through a pipe attached to a tarboiler bursting. Luckily he escaped injury to his eyesight.

Trained at Ruakura. —Twelve young men who came from public schools in England last year, have completed their twelve months’ training in agriculture at the Ruakura State Experimental Farm. They have been drafted to various farms to complete their training.

Unused Explosive Left in Mine. —At Meldrum. near Greymouth, two men, William Page and Antoni Bonetti, Were each fined ten shillings, with £3 13s costs, for failing to bring unused explosives out of a State mine at the end of their shift.

Boy Drowned. —Thomas John Anderson. aged nine, son of Mr. Frederick Anderson, a baker at Methven, was drowned at Rakaia Gorge, near Ashburton, yesterday afternoon. He was bathing with a party of picnickers and was caught in a snag.

Fireman Imprisoned. —Joseph Dunn, a fireman, was sentenced at the Lyttelton Court to six weeks’ imprisonment with hard labour for striking the captain of the Port Sydney, who refused to let him sign off. The bench remarked that the sentence should be a warning to others.

Motor-cycle Skids. —Yesterday a motor-cycle ridden by J. E. Horsfell, of Petone, attached to a sidechair containing his wife and chi! i. skidded near Bulls on the loose coating of metal,-'and capsized. All were more or less badly shaken, the child receiving head injuries.

Foot Crushed by Pole. —While unloading hardwood poles from the steamer Ihumata at Central Wharf this morning, James McCormick, of 22 Mountain View Road, Morningside, had his foot crushed through one of the poles slipping. He was taken to the Auckland Hospital by the St. John Ambulance.

Flounders at Wanganui. —The warm condition of the waters apparently caused a big influx of flounders at Wanganui yesterday and to-day. Big catches were made on th£ tn-'.dilate near the mouth of the river. The . mostly of good size, fell easy vic.tin c to the spe»>~s of r tishermer*. The Maoris are having a prolific time. Such a harvest has not been known for many years,