STRUCK BY A TRAIN

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5881, 8 April 1920, Page 2

STRUCK BY A TRAIN

GUILD BADLY INJURED

(Special to tho Daily Telegraph.)

AUCKLAND, this d^.V

A cbiid named Oiive Baker, 2 years old, daughter of Mr Thomas Baker, a miner, had a narrow escape from death at Huntly on Monday. When piaying on a railway crossing,', she was caught by a train and thrown as.ide, the impact fracturing her skull, the was removed to the hospital.

"The people in the banks, from top to bottom, are wage slaves. They aro the worst paid people in the country," said the Mayor of L'bristchurcb, when speaking at a recent function. A novel method to get outstanding debts due to the association was decided upon at the meeting of the committee of the Wanganui Agricultural Association, when it was agreed that a defaulters' list would be read at the first meeting after March 31.

One of the most effective precautionary measures against an attack of influenza is tho f''to use of "Ksxzul" day and uigbt.

In preparation for tho reception of the Prince of Wales, Government House in being done up, and the parklike grounds put in order. During his brief stay there the Trince will bo the guest of the Governor, and it is interesting to recall the fact that this historic old building has housed Royalty on two previous occasions, mid is about the only building in New Zealand with that distinction, fifty yt-arx ago the JDuko of Edinburgh (our coming guest's great uncle) rtas a visitor to the big wooden building in Waterloo Quadrant, and 19 jears back the present King and Queen were tbe guests of Lord and Lady Uanfurly. The house was built of heart of \ kauri, and the timber is as good to-day as when it sheltered the Duke of Edinburgh.