LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1923, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Messrs M. Houston and Co., notify in another column that they are holding, in the mart, an auction sale of a quantity of furniture and also a large consignment <d fruit and vegetables. The sale takes place to-monow afternoon at 2.30 o'clock'.

There was a chapter of accidents at Hie Waitnangaion school picnic on Satii 1 day. says the Westport “News". Master Willie Neighbours, son of Mr Sid Neighbours, led olf by dislocating bit. arm at the elbow. First aiders promptly got to work and placed the arm hack in position. At the close of the picnic, as Walker's cart was leaving. with a patty of some 15 children, the g.irthband broke, the shafts shot tip in the air. and the hor.se, terrified, made off, with the screaming children tumbling out of the humping cart. Finally the horse broke free from the ea,L, and the anxious onlookers were able to ascertain the extent of the damage done. .Miss Ivy Walker came off worst, with numerous had bruises. Indeed, she had quite a miraculous escape from getting under the wheels of the vehicle, her (Less catching on the step proving her salvation. Other children escaped with bruises and facial and body abrasions.