DOMINION NEWS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 2608, 10 April 1926, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS

LEVEL CROSSING FATALITY , LORRY DRIVER KILLED., (By Telegraph—Press HAMILTON, Friday, Another fatal railway crossing aeei' dent occurred on Thursday afternoon,, when the Auckland-bound Thames ex- . press collided with a one-ton motor lorry, the property of the P.W.D. The driver, Mr William Henry Cornthwaite, a single man, aged 22 years, residing at Hamilton, was killed. The scene of the accident was on the Kainui road, near Taupiri. i The train struck the lorry and carried it about a chain. Deceased, who was killed instantly, suffered a fractured skull and had both legs broken. ‘ OUR FIRST GOVERNOR. SUITABLE RECOGNITION OF GRAVE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The grave of Capt. William Hobson, R.N., first Governor of New Zealand, Who died on September 10, 1842, and was buried in Symonds Street cemetery, is to be markod by a suitable memorial. The grave at present is marked by an ordinary headstone. The Department of Internal Affairs has decided to call tenders for the. erection on the grave of an obelisk monument. ROSE FAREWELLED. BIG GATHERING AT WELLINGTON (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, this day. Over 1000 citizens assembled at the Town Hall last night to bid farewell to E. A. Rose, of Masterton, who in company with his companion-manager, Mr J. W. MeHolni, will measure strides with the world’s greatest distance runners. NEGLIGENT DRIVING. 1 A SUBSTANTIAL FINE. (By Telegraph—Press Association) ' CHRISTCHURCH, this day. , Walter Ross, manager for Messrs J. Ballantyne and Co., Timara, was fined. £ls and costs for negligent driving of a car. His license was endorsed.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES MARCH FIGURES. (By Telegraph—Press Association). AUCKLAND, this day. Infectious diseases totalling 120 cases w.ere reported in the Auckland Health District' in March. Of this number, 25 were diphtheria and 25 scarlet fever. KERB PUhfrPS TO GO, CITY COUNCIL’S FIRM STAND. ' "/ this day. The decision to disallow' the erection of kerbside pumps in the main streets of Auckland was linallv arrived at last evening by the City Council. / Previous representations had been made to the council by the Motor Trade Association, and twenty garage owners sought the council’s sanction for the erection o fseventv additional kerbside pumps. v -~ GRADING REGULATIONS. PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS. - BACKBLOCKS POSITIONS, \ ' . • WELLINGTON, this day. By Gazette, the regulations governing the, grading of primary school teachers are revoked and a new set of regulations is brought into force as from January 1 last. ■Among the new regulations is one designed to meet the ease of young’ teachers who take positions in the baekblocks with higher salaries than properly belong to their grades. Another, regulation provides .somewhat similar for New Zealand teachers who take service in South Sea schools. ' p •'' 1 . ■ ■ y THE GAS TURNED ON. DUNEDIN, this day. Aubrey Wright, aged 89, a married man with a family of six, of Wright’s Commercial Agency, was found dead in his office this morning with the gas turned on.