LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19829, 2 May 1927, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There were four bankruptcies in Wellington during April, as against three in April last year, states a Press Association telegram.

As the result of the derailment of a goods wagon between Rata and Porewa at four o ’clock on Saturday morning the southbound Limited and the ordinary expresses were delayed for several hours.

The meeting of householders at the Pokaha School was presided over by Mr A. Bowman and the following committee was elected: Messrs Loveridge, Peacock, Watson, Rolston and Bowman. The committee elected Mr A. Bowman as chairman and secretary.

A Hamilton Press Association telegram reports that Mavis Buckeridge, aged 22, a daughter of Mr E. W. Buckeridge, of Te Papatapu, 18 miles from Raglan, died at her parents’ residence on Friday from gunshot wounds in the chest.

A Press Association telegram from Gisborne states that Wariki Waihi, a Maori sheep-farmer of Ruatoria, was on Saturday committed for trial at the Supreme Court on .a charge of stealing .18 head of cattle from neighbouring farmers, which he is alleged to have collected when driving a mob to town.

The post office and store at Panutanui were burnt on Friday at 7 p.m., says a Wellington telegram. The building was demolished in 20 minutes and nothing was saved. Money and postal orders were locked in the safe but the mails were burnt. The cause of the fire was a defective chimney.

A collision between a motor car and a Corporation bus at the corner of St. Hill and Ingestre streets early on Saturday evening attracted considerable attention. No personal injury resulted but the car, driven by Mr L. Gordon, was damaged in front, while the right hand side of the car suffered to some extent.

The uneven surface of the Victoria Avenue footpath between Ingestre and Plymouth streets is at present receiving the attention of the City Council’s workmen, and within a few days will be replaced with a fareway worthy of the dignity of a city. This stretch is in a very bad state and has long needed attention.

Reasonably fine weather was experienced in Wanganui over the week-end, and although the air had a distinct touch of winter, there were many motorists who found conditions pleasant enough to venture forth. A good deal of rain was experienced up-river, and a fresh gave several launch owners a busy half-hour or so attending to mooring lines.

A Carterton message says that Mr R. B. Hill, one of the search party under the leadership of Mr E. W. Vosseler, who broke a leg through a fall over a 20ft cliff in Slip Creek, was ruccessfully carried out to Dalefield late on Friday afternoon, where he was met by an ambulance and conveyed to Greytown Hospital. The relief expedition had a strenuous time over dangerous country for two days and the weather was extremely cold and wet.

A big saloon car rests in a local garage to-day considerably damaged as the result of an accident early on Saturday morning. Its occupants, the driver and a passenger, had a miraculous es-, cape when the car overturned at the corner of Heads Road and Caius Ave.-1 nue. The driver’s head was bruised, 1 but his companion escaped with a scratched finger, caused by the shower of broken glass that descended when the windows were stove in. The car was returning from Castlecliff when it skidded on the corner land came to rest on its side.

Wanganui East was the scene of two fires over the week-end. The first, at 6.24 p.m. on Saturday brought the brigade racing to a section on the corner of Jellicoe and Milton streets, where gorse cut and allowed to lie had been mysteriously set alight. House property in the vicinity was endangered, but the outbreak was soon extinguished. At 5.27 yesterday morning a street alarm call was received from Moana Street where outbuildings in the grounds of Miss Gersc's residence were providing a spectacular flare. As the fire had a good hold when discovered, and the roof had fallen in when the brigade arrived, nothing could be saved. The damage is estimated at about £2OO, but the buildings were insured,