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Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1924, Page 3

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[uv TICIiKGKAPII— l'l'K I’ItKSS ASSOCIATION. -MAX FOI XI) DKAI). fAKTKirm.X, •)title* Tlic lio.ly of a middle-need man was P' died up this mm nine on I’imutnkn hill on the railway mi Cross Creel; side of the summit funnel. It had evidently heen there since Saturday .nielli. There was a marl; nil tin* hack of the head. The hodv was brought to Feullierstnn and handed over in the pulice. v -'o far it Inis lint heen identified. A FI UK. AI'f’KI.ANI), dune L’. An eiglil innnied house in I’arnell was partly destroyed hv fire nil Si'.ndayday night. |[ was ueeupied liy Mrs Al. Odgen. who had a narrow escape of being hurtled to death. The hiti ldi lie was hurtling fiercely when the brigade arrived. .Mrs Odgen was the •sole nectipant and was removed semiconscious stiffen tie severely from shuck. Xothini' wav saved from the building which wa.s owned hy .Miss .Jessie Hill of I’anatuetue.

FOUND DEAD. (OSBORNE. June

Clifiord Hood. IS, married, a slicoj'ftiriner of Kanahnnaia was found dead with a gunshot wound in the head, ami a gnn beside him. THE RAIIAVAV.MEN. DUNEDIN, -itine - At a meeting lit the tltago hraueli ef the A.S.P.S. it was resolved unanimously : “I hat this meeting records its protest against the reversion to the !S-lumr week by the (I'overnmellt. We view it as an act of vindientiveiiess by the Oovernment, v. lii.-h i- insecure in its administrative position and even ready to retrieve its mistakes at the expense of the workers.” It was stated by a member that when the Public Adjustment Act was mooted a canvas was made of the M’s.]’., over At) promising to vote against it. hut when the matter tame before the House, only Labour members opposed it. It is understood that, the general feeling at Hillside is that the National Executive sold the men when the strike was called oil. Hillside favours the Wanganui suggestion of it eonferenee of all branches.