TRUCK LEAVES ROAD

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21676, 10 June 1940, Page 4

TRUCK LEAVES ROAD

Watersider Thrown Out And Killed By Telegraph —Pres? Association DUNEDIN, June 9. A waterside worker. George Charles Amas, aged 31. was killed on Saturday afternoon, when the motor truck in which he was riding went over a bank near Roseneath on the DunedinPort Chalmers Road. The truck left the road at a steep bend and rolled about 60 feet before coming to rest at the bottom of the bank. Amas, who was dead when the police arrived, had apparently been thrown clear, as he was lying a short distance from the truck. Miles Middleditch. the driver the truck, escaped with minor injuries. RIVER CONTROL Suggestion To Minister. As river control and river problems were a matter of National interft and importance. Mr T. D. Burnett, Member for Ttmuka, informed a "Timaru Herald” reporter on Saturday that during an interview he had suggested to the Hon. R. Semple, Minister of Public Works, that he should establish a unit of the latest type of river clearing machinery at Temuk.i, but subsidised for upkeep and maintenance for the use of any or all if the South Canterbury local bodies interested. Mr Burnett said that ho had pointed out to the Minister the magnificent work of the Ashburton County Council, acting as a River Board, in regard to the control and clearance of the Ashburton River, and that it was of urg- .t importance for the Government and the local bodies to take in hand the fiver problems obtaining at the Hinds, Orari, Kakahu and Opihi Rivers. He was sorry to say that the i contemplated River Control legislation that the Minister had intended to bring in this Session might have to be shelved owing to the world crisis.