TARANAKI NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1937, Page 1

TARANAKI NEWS

New Farty-line Telephone. Settlers in the Huiakama-Huiroa district have decided to have the area linked with the telephone system. Accommodation Taxed. Lack of accommodation for the large nilmbcr of visitors at New Plymouth made yesterday a memorable Good Friday for many. St. John Ambulance at Stratford. The Stratford section of the St. John Ambulance Association . has been raised to the status of a division. It has decided to organise lectures for several new members. • Stratford Autumn Sliow. • Opinion whetlier Stratford should have a spring or an autumn A. and P. show was divided at a meeting of chairmen of sections and will be decided at a general meeting. Dangcr of Live Wires. The danger of handling live wires, even when they are supposed to be covered with insulation, was emphasised at the inquest on the death of a boy who was electrocuted at New Plymouth. Mountain Rcsorts Popular. Practically all accommodation at Egmont National Park resorts has been taken for Easter, the visitors including 32 members of the Auckland Tramping Club who are making Dawson Falls their headquarters. Ali" Pllois' Easter Camp. The pilots' Easter camp opened yesterday at the New Plymouth Airport. Wing-Commander the Hon. R. F. Cochrane, who inspected the camp, remarked on New Plymouth's enterprise in acquiring such a large field. Fatal Car Accident. As a result of a fractured skull and internal injuries received when she was pinned beneath an overturned car, a wornan died in the New Plymouth Hospital last night. Her son, who was driving, had bot.h collarbones broken. Mystery of Crutches. Mystery surrounds the discovery of a pair of crutches and three pairs of socks on the rocks below the esplanade at New Plymouth. The pollce have discovered that the socks were sold to a man on crutches, and an effort is being made to establish his identity. Working Manager to Count. Even though one of thern per for ms managerial duties in addition to working at a vat, the employment of two men in a two-vat cheese factory complies with the terms of the industrial agreernent. Such was the decision of Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., in dismissing an action by the Labour Department against a cheese factory. Helred Escaped Prisoner. William Joseph Fox's motive in escapirig from the custody of a prison warder at Stratford railway station on March 8 was revealed at Stratford yesterday in the hearing of a charge against Wilfred Wolf Waldron, Aotuhia, of assisting Fox's escape. Waldron pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court Oi Wellington for sentence on April 15.