MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1926, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[liv TKLI'CIHATH MR PBESS ASSOCIATION.] BOY KILLED. BLENHEIM, January 18. A lad, Colin Dudley West, 14 years of age, fell over a cliff yesterday whilst shouting on his father’s farm in Jordan Valley, Awatere, and was picked up dead by his brother. BODY FOUND IN IHVE.R. GORE, January 18. Edith Wakelih, whose parents reside in Dunedin, came l<> slay at Gore foi a change, as she had not. been in good health. She was missed from her sister’s place here early this morning and a search party tumid her body in the Mataura river. Deceased was about 10 years of age.

DACRE’S IMPRESSIONS

AUCKLAND. January 18

Dane. a returned member ol too New Zealand cricket team stales the* team did cousiderabK well, and better than the Australia..-: expected. It would have done better still, if it bad bad a few more bowlers of Blunt’s type. The wickets were too true for our fast bowlers. The most improved men in the team well Alleott and Ollivior. Alleott batted in line style throughout the tour. The New Zealand grounds were good compared with the host country grounds in Australia. Daerc said the attendances were disappointing. except at Adelaide, probably owing to the absence of star batsmen. Grimjnet was played easily by tlie New Zealanders and was hit all over the ground.

TWO SISTERS DROWNED. DROWNED. PUKHKOI-lE. Jan. 18. \ distressing fatality in the XVnikato River, near Tankini, occurred at tin* Onewhero bridge yesterday mornjug, resulting in the death, by drowning. of Hazel Lapwood. aged U years and Beryl Lapwood, 15. daughters of Mrs S. G. Lapwood of Taukau. Hie deceased and a brother aged 11. and a cousin aged 15, were paddling on a sand bank when the deceased stepped over a ledge into deep water. Neither were able to swim and a treacherous current carried them down stream. Tbe alarm was raised by two companions and a search party was organised in a launch, the bodies being recovered at mid-day. ELECTBIFTED FENCES. PROTECTIVE DEVICE INVENTED. HAMILTON. Jan. 18. A device for minimizing tbe danger from fallen electric wires was demonstrated to tbe General Electric Power Board. A short length of fence five miles away was livened by being connected to a three thousand volt line and a slight leakage of current to the ground was sufficient to operate a circuit breaker at the sub-station within n couple of seconds, thus cutting off the power from that area. Six of the devices, which are the in-

vention of the Board’s engineer, Mr •T. R. Ellis, have been installed, and nrotect all three thousand volt lines in the district. Owing to the larger leakage of current, the eleven thousand volt lines will he protected more easily. Tlie advantages of the new installation are its almost negligible cost, and the small leakage needed to operate it.