SWIFT DEATH.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1924, Page 4

SWIFT DEATH.

CAUGHT IN SHAFTING. FATALITY AT EDTHAM. MARRIED MAN KILLED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Eltham, Sept. 19. Soon after commencing work this morning WSHiam Henry Hart, aged 34, a married man with three children, employed as a mechanic in the Egmont Box Factory, Eltham, met his death under tragic circumstances. The main shaft driving the various machines at the factory passes through a tunnel about seven feet high and seven feet wide. Deceased, accompanied by Mr. W. C. Rigg, overseer, and Mr. Allen Taylor, another mechanic, went down this tunnel to make some adjustments to a new fan. Apparently, deceased’s apron, which was of strong sack material, caught on the shaft, which at the time was travelling at the rate of 200 revolutions per minute. Rigg, who was standing alongside, made a grab at Hart, but deceased was swung round the shaft, and killed instantly w’hen his head came in contact with the concrete floor. Rigg being sent spinning across the tunnel. The inquest will be held to-morrow at 10.30 a.m. in Eltham, when the inspector of machinery (Mr. McGregor) at present in Wanganui, will be called. The coroner (Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M.) will preside. Deceased had resided in Eltham for ‘seven years, during which time he had been in the employ of the Box Company as a mechanic. -He was a returned soldier and formerly came from Wanganui. He leaves a widow, a hoy aged six, and two daughters aged four years and two years. He was a member of the Eltham Fire Brigade and of the Druids Lodge.

New Zealand is being well advertised a < far as its meat is concerned, according to Mr. A. E. Harding, a member of the Meat Board. He stated at the Auckland Farmers Union meeting that a.i extensive campaign to bring the superior qualities before overseas const mers was being conducted. An arrangement had been made by the board foi fat lambs to be sent Home cheaply as a propaganda move. 'Shops in EngYears have intervened since the mysterious disappearance of Pelorus Jack, the famous pilot fish of the French Pass. A Pelorus correspondent advances a new theory accounting for the fate of the fish. He states that he has been informed by Mrs. John Hippolite, of D’Urville Island, that a school of white fish, identical with Pelorus Jack, came ashore on the island and that the Marine Board, Nelson, was informed of the occurrence at the time. It is certainly noteworthy that the disappearance of Pelorus Jack should have coincided with the destruction of a shoal of white fish of the same species. It is accepted as a fact everywhere that labour is more expensive now than several years ago and has less efficiency. This was emphasised at the annual meeting of the Wanganui Meat Freezing Company, when the question was asked whether it was necessary to have ten men loading into the lighter. The questioner expressed the opinion that the men looked like a lot of convalescents on the job. The chairman, Mr. E. A. Campbell, replied that it was the union system of loading and could not be altered. They took their own time to do the job. He had told them the same at the last annual meeting. As a comparison he said that in former days the company had four men to load the lighter and they worked 1} hours. Now it took six men three hours to load it.

A question was asked in the House of Representatives by Mr. L. Mcllvride (Napier) as to the possibility of enabling nurses to have the word “nurse” appearing in front of their names in the telephone directory without paying the special business rate. The Postmaster-General, the Hon. J. G. Coates, said he sympathised with the nurses, but the matter presented difficulties in that it was hard to determine what profession should be entitled to more favourable terms than another. Where a profession was constituted the practitioners came under the heading of business as regards telephone rates. It might be advisable for the nurses, where possible, to join party telephone wires at a considerably reduced rate. However, he would give the matter consideration. “We are looking for trouble in expecting an international exhibition to help the Dominion,” declared Mr. L. R. Partridge, chairman of the Wellington Industrial Association, when the forthcoming Dunedin Exhibition was under discussion. He went on to say that an international exhibition meant the using of the funds of the Dominion for a purpose detrimental to the manufacturers of the Country. The Government had no right to encourage the foreign exploitation of the New Zealand markets. Foreign exhibits would not be there for the benefit of the exhibition, but to open up markets for themselves, and this would be detrimental to th e manufacturers of New Zealand. He failed to recollect the time when an international exhibition had produced good results for the community, but he knew of instances when harm had been done. Coincident to the action of the New Zealand Government placing an embargo on fruit and vegetables from California entering the Dominion owing to the prevalence of foot-and-mouth disease in the Golden State, some idea of the extraordinary ravages of the disease may be gathered by a recent statement issued by Dr. J. R. Mohler, chief of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture, who reported in the city of Oakland, California, that the foot-ai.d-mouth disease in California had cost approximately 5,000,000 dollars, and had necessitated the slaughter of 102,000 head of live stock.

Commissioner and Mrs. Hoggard, the territorial leaders of the Salvation Army, assisted by Major McCauley and Ensign Mrs. Coffin, will conduct a aeries of special meetings this Sunday in the •Salvation Army Hall. The Commissioner will give his thrilling and popular lecture at 3 p.m. on Eight Years in Korea, the Land of the Morning Calm. His Worship the Mayor will preside. Those who desire a happy and profitable hour should not fail to hear Commissioner and Mrs. Hoggard on this special occasion.

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