NEWS OF THE DAY

Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1935, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Tangarakau Gorge Road. The Tangarakau Gorge Road is in better condition at present than it has been for three years, reports the Automobile Association (South Taranaki). The Moki tunnel is now open for one-way traffic and has been adequately sign-posted by the association. Eltham Child Falls in Bath. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O’Keefe, Collingwood Street, Eltham, fell into a bath of water on Saturday and might have been drowned but for the timely rescue by an elder sister who heard struggles in the bathroom. Artificial respiration was applied and the child was little the worse. Injury to Woodcutter. Ashley Francis was admitted to the New Plymouth public hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from a deep wound in the left wrist. The accident occurred while Mr. Francis, who is employed on a farm' near Waitara, was chopping wood, a flying splinter causing the .wound. The injured man has received surgical attention and his condition is satisfactory. Orchard Area Mapped. The air survey of the fruit areas of Hawkes Bay has been completed by Mr. Piet Van Asch, Flight-Lieutenant Gerrand and Flight-Lieutenant Rawnsley, of the Hawkes Bay and East Coast Aero Club. They have made a topographical mapping of approximately 70 square miles of the province. To carry out this survey on foot would have taken many months. From the air flying time occupied 12 hours.