DOMINION NEWS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 3041, 5 April 1923, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS

THIRD INFANT’S BODY

DISCOVERY AT NEWLANDS

RESULT OF POLICE SEARCH

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 3.

Another sensational, development in the Ncwlands case, in connection with which Daniel Cooper and his wife, Martha Cooper, are charged with murder, occurred to-day, when a third infant’s body was found. For several days a party of police has been searching and digging the ground in the vicinity of the house where Cooper and his female hoarders lived. To-day the party came across the body of another child, making the third body discovered there. So far as is known at present, four children are

missing,

It is stated that the three already found are similar in sex to those who disappeared, and who were said by the prisoners to have been adopted by rcsi dents of Palmerston North and other districts. INSTRUCTION OF THE BLIND ARE OUR METHODS UP-TO-DATE’? ENQUIRY BY CABINET (By Telegraph—Press Association) N WELLINGTON, this day. Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister for Education, states that Cabinet has decided to appoint a committee to enquire .into and report upon the condition of the blind as regards both education and their vocational training. The Government was interested because it gave a considerable subsidy per head to the trustees of the Blind Institute at Auckland for education of blind children, and certain doubts had been suggested recently as to the efficiency of the course of instruction, in view of the fact that since the Avar great interest had been taken in the welfare of the blind, and improved methods and wider fields of training had been adopted elscAvhcre.

FIRE IN SCHOOL AT DA.EGAVILLE v (By Telegraph—Press Association) DARGAVILLE, this day. A fire at ahgut midnight last night entirely gutted'the central portion, of the public school. The building is a very old one and only the splem efforts by the brigade saved it from total destruction.

The origin of the fire is a mystery, as the school had not been used since one o’clock yesterday.

Temporary arrangements have been made to carry on the school Avork.