HAWERA GIRL INJURED

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1930, Page 12

HAWERA GIRL INJURED

RIFLE BULLET ENTERS ARM.

RICOCHET IN TARGET PRACTICE. A Hawera girl imagined on Tuesday evening that she had been murderously assaulted. The matter was cleared.yes--terday by the police, who. found that shots, one of which struck the girl,; were not aimed at her. The girl was walking, down Regent Street towards South Road on the lefthand side ’of the road when she heard a slight report and felt a pain in her right arm. The meaning of the incident had not been grasped by her before there was another report. This time a missile whistled past her head. She did not wait to ascertain who was responsible; but hurried to the house where she was employed. Medical aid was sought and a .22-in. calibre bullet, -was removed from the girl’s arm. , The police took a serious view of the occurrence. The-bullet had entered the right arm, so it, had . been fired apparently from the opposite side of the road, which might be taken to indicate intent. The girl was not able to throw any light upon the matter. A recent arrival in Hawera, she had, so far as she knew, no enemies noi’ anyone who could wish to injure her. Inquiries by the police yesterday, however, revealed that a yopng man had been practising in a yard with a .22 repeating rifle. Two of the pellets ricocheted off a wall into the. street at the time the girl was passing.. Actually they were fired on the side of the road she was using,-the deflection from the wall causing the bullet to enter the right arm. It is; understood further action will be taken.

DEATH FROM INJURIES. WHANGAREJ MOTOR COLLISION'. " By Telegrnph.—Pjeßß Association. ", Whangar-ei, December 17. j > Fritz Strack, schoolmaster at Whatitiri, who fractured the base of his skull as the result of a collision with Wallace, another motor-cyclist, yesterday afternoon,- died last night. He was a son of the late Mr.. Strack, for many years schoolmaster at Hawera, who died four months ego. x SOUTH TARANAKI CRICKET. (MID-WiEEK MATCH AT HAWERA.,

. A-combined Hawera Wednesday and Old Boys’ cricket team the Ha.wera High School yesterday. The combined team ran up 209, Moloney contributing a bright century. School replied with 103, of which Thrush made 61 not out. Details are: — COMBINED WEDNESDAY <A. A, .Wqrrall. c and b Buigt ........ 18 A. Gray, c . Thrush, b Whitehead 16 G. Moloney, retired .. .. - ......... 101 C. MqFadyen, b Whitehead 2 H. Sargent, b Duke .. .1.......... 17 A. Stevens, c Thrugh, b Duke 4 R, Miller, b.Jluk© 10

J, CoJnjan, rq’n opt 31 M. Foster, l.b.wj., b Whitehead 3 1?.,' Jordan, not-out ......,/ 1 ........v... • • d-- -• •, .■$ Total (for 9 wickets declared) . 209 Bowling analysis.—Whitehead took three wickets for 07 runs; Buist, one for 26; Thrush, none for 28; Emniite, none for 35; Duke, three for 42. HIGH SCHOOL A. Sagar, b Worrell 0. Thomas, b Molopey - T? Thrush, not out ........«...'..... 64 Stewart, b Moloney B Duke, b Worrell ........... . . • ; , 0 Beamish, , c Miller, b Stevens I? Whitehead, c Foster, b Stevens ■ 7Buist, b. Worrell ................ 4 Emmitt, b Worrell. .>....... ♦,. 0 Brennan, b Worrell .............. t) ; Extras ~.......,........ 1 Total 103 ' — a • • • ■ Bowling analysis, —Worrell took five wickets for 46 runs; McFadyen, none for 31; Moloney/ two for nine; Stevens, two for }3. ’ TARIURUTANGI BEATS HAWSERA A win for Tarurutangi by an innings and nine runs was the result of a cricket match between Tarurutangi and a Hawere eleven at Tarurutangi. Hawera’s first innings realised 38 runs, McFadyen contributing 15. L. Bishop and Sp. Giddy bora the" brunt of the bowling, the former taking four wickets and the latter two.

Tarurutangi replied, with 151 for nine wickets, declared, St. Giddy knocked up 68 not out in attreptive style, and Sp_. Giddy made -35. H. Hughes, with four wickets, and A. Stevens, with two, did most damage. ' ■ A total of 104 was the result of Hawera’s second innings, the principal scorers being A. Worrell 46 and A. 'Stevens 22. Sp. Giddy, who took six wickets, for 29, was the moist successful bowler, “WITH BYRD AT THE SOUTH POLE.” grand' theatre talkies. “With Byrd at the South Pole,” Paramount’s thrilling picturisation of the recent Byrd expedition to the Antarctic, will be presented at the Grand Theatre, Hawera, this afternoon at 2 p.m., for a season of three nights and three matinees, with a special children’s matinee to-morrow at 3 p.m. Photographed by two of Paramount’s best cameramen, Joseph Rucker and Willard Vander Veer, “With Byrd at the South Pole” depicts, in dramatic story form one of the grandest adventures of all times. They have succeeded in photographing the “high spots” of two years of high-tension adventure. From the moment Byrd and his party establish themselves at their camp (Little America), 2300 miles beyond the last outpost of civilisation, to that thrilling moment when Byrd and Balchen set out in. their giant Fokker plane to make the first flight over the South Pole ever attempted by man, “With Byrd at the South Pole” remains first and foremost a picture of vital, vivid action. An added attraction to the programme will depict scenes on and around Mount Egmont, including scenes taken at the opening of the Syme Hut.