TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1922, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

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SOLDIER SETTLER DROWNED. •I WAIROA, Feb. 6. A fatal accident occurred at Ardkeen j. soldier settlement yesterday afternoon. Two returned soldeirs, William Harold Nicoll, and Francis Patrick Meagher, were crossing the river in a cage, when the post supporting tho cable broke and the men were thrown into the flooded river. Meagher was drowned, his neck being broken. Nicol, who was a poor swimmer, reached the bank in an exhausted oondition. Meagher’s body was recovered four hundred yards lower down.

A COW ELECTROCUTED. | DUNEDIN, Feb’. 3. I At the Kaitaugnta police coUrt yes-to-day before E; C. Levvey, S.M.j AL ’ fred J. Kaye sued William Caird for £2B in connection with the death of a cow which was electrocuted on a public ! street in Ivaitanjpita in August last. The claim was made up of £25 value of the cow and £3 costs of burial. Counsel for plaintiff stated that defendant was driving a team of horses and a cart, and the cart coming in contact with a pole carrying an electric wire brought the latter to the ground and plaintiff’s cow while being driven along the street came in contact with the wire and was , killed. Defendant had been negligent in that he had failed to notify the borough authorities of what had occurred. The Magistrate gave judgment for plaintiff for £l7 (value of the cow) and for the full amount claimed for burial costs viz., £3, with costs of court and witnesses' expenses, amounting to £7 2s WELLINGTON, Feb, 2 Tlie reported prevalence of pneumonic influenza in Britain and America was mentioned in the House of Representatives to-day by Mr V. R. Reed, who asked what precautions were being taken by the Department of Public Health. He suggested that the creation of emergency organisations might be desirable. The Minister of Health (the Hon C. J. Parr) replied that his Department was watching the spread of influenza with considerable concern. A cablegram from the High Commissioner this week reported that in Britain the trouble was widespread and was increasing, although not in so severe a form as in 1918. The epidemic had been reported from all countries of Europe. Influenza in the severe form was now prevalent in the States of Eastern America. The Department believed that! New Zealand ran the risk of another visitation of influenza. Ho lmd asked the officers of the Depart

PRECAUTIONS IN N.Z

STATEMENT BY MINISTER OF HEALTH,

ment to take every precaution and to make preparations for tho possibility of an outbreak. The exclusion of the disease from the Dominion was not an easy matter .but lie had asked the Department to make stringent precautions in the examination of persons arriving in New Zealand ports from overseas.

He thought that the temperature of every person arriving aboard a ship should be taken. The epidemic of 1918 added the Minister, had started in Europe and had spread to America and thence to New Zealand. The present epidemic had followed the same course as far as America. The fumigation of mails was undertaken by the Postal Department with special reference to, plague infection.

RAILWAY WORKERS. WELLINGTON, February 6. The genera] secretary of the Locomotive Engineers, Firemen and Cleaners Association stafes there is no truth in the statements which have been circulated that the Association had agreed to an alteration in the hours of duty and overtime rates. The E.F.C.A. stands for no alteration in these conditions.