DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 17 April 1948, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS

Animal Welfare in Abattoirs: —To support a petition for enforcements of more human means of more human means of slaughter livestock,! a deputation led; by Mr Geoffrey Hodson, chairman of the executive committee of the combined animal welfare organisations of New Zealand, met the Minister of Agriculture, Mr Cullen, to-day. The deputation represented the Justices of the Peace Association, National National Council of Women, New Zealand Vegetarian Society, British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection and Co-operative Women’s Guild of New Zealand. The petition asked that all animals slaughterer at abattoirs and freezing works should b( instantaneously killed, or stunned by means of a instrument in good repair and that this be made compulsory. The Minister promised favourable consideration.

Girl Killed.!—Thrown from her bicycle when she was struck by a passenger bus at the corner of Taylor and Busby Streets, Avondale, at 10.40 today, Ivy Wiltshire, aged 10, of Avondale. suffered head and multiple injuries which caused her death within a few minutes. —Auckland, April 16.

H.M.S. "Bellona.” —The cruiser Bellona is due at Wellington to-morrow In the course of her training cruise. She will probably be accompanied by the anti-submarine. vessel, Kiwi, which has been at Lyttelton undergoing. minor engine repairs. While the Bellona is at Wellington her new commanding officer, Captain D. Hammersley Johnston, 0.8. E., M.V.0., R.N., will officially take over from Captain M. B. Laing, C.8.E., R.N., who is shortly to return to Britain. The Bellona has been exercising in the Pelorus Sound. She will leave for Tauranga on Monday after refuelling.—Wellington, April .16.

Soldier’s Legs Broken. —Two fractures of the left leg. and one of the right leg were received by O. Lang, a soldier. from the construction, camp at Petone, when an Army truck in which he was riding left the Makara Hill road yeste/day afternoon. The truck apparently turned over four or five times before coming to res severely damaged, about 100 yards down the slope. Another soldier from the construction camp escaped without serious injury.—Wellington, April 16. AUCKLAND, April 16. Owing to a mechanical defect, the flying-boat Mataatua, of New Zealand National Airways, which left at 8.15 under charter to Tasman Airways, which left at 8.15 under charter to 'Tasman Airways, with passengers for Sydney, radioed that she was turning back. She arrived at Auckland at 11.12. yr . . , A Tasman Airways official said it was hoped that she would be able to leave for Sydney at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning. Although the defect was not serious, Commander A. D. Carlaw decided to return as a precautionary measure. The 23 passengers accepted the decision calmly, and no alarm was felt-