Last Look Round

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 690, 15 June 1929, Page 13

Last Look Round

Over 1.000 Unemployed Figures supplied by the Fa hour De- j parnnent this morning show a total of j 1,078 men out of work. Of this num- J her 900 are classed as lit for heavy work and 178 for light work. Luring | the past week 65 men were placed in ; employment. Bequest for Charity Under the will of the late Mrs. Sarah i Ann Ensom. of Christchurch. £SOO has been bequeathed to the New Zealand Labour Party and £I.OOO to the Christchurch "Workers’ Educational , Association, as well as other bequests, ! totalling £9OO, for various charities. — j P.A. Railway Ganger Killed A railway ganger. Ambrose Gregory, aged 54. was run down and killed by a goods trains from Palmerston North about S a.m. on the railway bridge over the llutt Road. lie. was not seen by the driver, and it is thought lie was kneeling down gauging the track and did not se< • ■ coming.—P.A. » Killed By Motor At the inquest into the death of John Claydon, an elderly man, who was killed by a motor in Manchester Street, Christchurch, the coroner, Air. E. C. Levvey, S.M., added a rider to the formal verdict, stressing the necos- I sity in the interests of public safety : for the regular inspection of motor- ; cars using the highways. Evidence , had been given by a detective that ! the brakes of the car were defective, i -