SUSPECTED MURDER

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 104, 15 February 1950, Page 4

SUSPECTED MURDER

Body Of Missing Man Pound (P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The partly-buried body of Frederick Stanley Hodgson, aged about 60, bacteriologist, residing at Lake Rotoma was found by the police at 8 p.m. last night near Edgecumbe in the Whakatahe district. Murder is suspected by shootDeceased has been missing since 9.30' a.m. on Monday, when ■he left for work in his car. The car was found near the part-ly-buried body.

LOOKING BACK

FIFTY YEARS SYNE / (From the “Guardian,” Feb. 15, 1900). Personal —Mr S. J. Furness, one of the proprietors of the first evening paper, the “Echo,” published in Ashburton, paid a flying visit to the borough yesterday. Time appears to have dealt very kindly with the genial journalist, who is now sole owner of the “Marlborough Times” and the “Marlboorugh Express.”—Tinwald Send-off: After the contingent had lunched at Lyttelton on Saturday, Mr Doherty, on behalf of friends and well-wishers of Tinwald, presented Troopers Smith, Lowe, Roberts, and Lusk each with a pocket compass suitably engraved.

, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (From the “Guardian,” Feb. 15, 1925). Diagnosis of Paralysis—Dr. P. ll.* Buck is perparing a pamphlet in Maori in connection with the diagnosis and treatment of infantile paralysis. There are no such words as infantile paralysis in the Maori language, and an ethnological difficulty was experienced in finding a suitable heading for the pamphlet. The author did not desire to'coin a word for the occasion. It is well known that the kernels of the karaka berry, a popular native dish, are very poisonous unless treated by boiling. Eating the green' kernels brings about a state of poisoning and a twisting up of the body known to the Maoris as “rori.” Dr. Buck has therefore chosen the following words: “Mate Whakarqri Tamariki” which mean “The disease that twists up the limbs of a child.”