Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 4 September 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Fatal PAralysis Case The death of a poliomyelitis'' victini, aged 19, from Upper Hutt was reported to- the District Officer of Health (Dr. Hubert SmithJ. yesterday. She was admitted,t:Q the Well- | ington. Publlc . Hospltgl -pn August j 24 and died on Septehib'ef 2. I Snow On Ranges1 ' j The clouds lifted from the TaraI rua Ranges for a brief; period early I this mornin'g to reveal that yesterj day af ternoon - and last night the : heaviest fall'of snow this winter ! had occurred. The lpain r'ange Was deeply coatedj while the low'ridges nad received a generouS sprinkling. For Better Speeches ' ' A little-public'ised service offered by the National Broadcasting Service is to make recordiiigs of politicians' speeches, which can be played back to the speaker so that! he can make improvements. This was instituted during last session| of Parliament," but an official of1 the broadcasting ' service yescerday said that little advantage had been taken of it. Sorne members on both sides of the House: have availea themselves of hearing themselves as well as others, but the vast majority apparently have remained unimpressed.

Broken Bottle Menace The menace presented by irresponsible persons carelessly discarding empty beer bottles was again demonstrated at Foxton Beach this week. Colleen, six-year-old daughter of iVXr. and Mrs. K. Rodgers, of Park Street, was playing with other children on the sand hills near the boating club pavilion and jumped on to the bottom portion of a broken bottle inflicting a severe gash in- the foot. After receiving medical attention lccally she was admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital. Infant Boy Drowned A distressing tragedy occurred at Makuri, Pahiatua, yesterday niorning when the 18-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Len Cooper was drowned in the Makuri River. The child was missed by his mother at about 10.30 a.m., and a search was instituted, the body being discovered in the river about threequarers of an hour later. The Cooper home is sit'uated only about 15 yards from the river bank and it is .presumed the child wandered to the bapk and fell into the water.Farm Laboiirer's Death Shoxtly after 2 o'Clock on Thurs|day afternoon a fatal accident occurred nead Pongaroa. Th^ victim was:— Henry Colston Heath, fa'rm labourer, aged- 29 years,' single. Deceased, who was 'a fefurned serviceman, was travelling to Pongaroa along the main road from Pahiatua in a motor truck driven by Terence Mongahan, ot Pongaroa. He was sitting in the rear of the vehicle with Mr. H. J. Herbert, of Pongaroa, when it left the road and capsized into the Pongaroa River, approximately 50 feet below the roadside. Deceased and Mr. Herbert were both pinned beneath the truck under the surface of the water. Mr. Herbert managed to extricate himself but deceased did not. The body could not be released until the assistance of a tractorwas obtained about / two'.hours later, * . . ; v -