DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1926, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS

[by TELEQIUFn—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] "HIGH SCHOOL FIRE. NEW PLYMOUTH, June 12. A fire broke out in tbe Roys’ High School buildings at about four this morning, and before it was suppressed gutted four class rooms, destroying all tho contents. The fire is supposed to have started in a fireplace. The Fire Brigade attended promptly, hut, the fire had a good hold upon the flooring and other woodwork, and it took an

hour to get the flames under control. The building is of concrete. Outside accommodation will he secured to enable the school to carry on during the rebuilding. The insurances total eleven thousand pounds. Tlie damage probably will amount to five or six thousand pounds.

As tbe result of the gutting by tlie fire of five of the classrooms at ITfe Boys’ High School, the Education Hoard has made arrangements to carry on portion of the work of school in the racecourse buildings. man fatally crushed. ASHBURTON. June 12. Peter Barrie, a farmer of Timaru, succumbed this afternoon to injuries received on Monday, through being crushed by a jack slipping from a wh.'ire under which he was working.

PA B TIA I, El, ECT RCUT I ON. AUCKLAND, June 12 Arthur N. Wisbart, single, ;

while manipulating one of the v ireless sets in the chief' post office bridged two live wires and was subjected to a high voltage and rendered unconscious. He was admitted to the hospital suffering from partial electrocution. His condition is satisfactory. CHILD RUN OVER. AUCKLAND, June 12. A two year old child mined Dobbs, wandering on the railway line at Huiitly crossing, was run over by a goods train, and had an arm and leg severed, and is now in ti precarious condition.

UNEMPLOYMENT. AUCKLAND, June 12,

There was some inermse yesterday in the number of unemployed registered at Auckland. The total of which has been round about 1200 for spinedays. passed the 1300 mark. The Labour Department found work for all men on Wednesday, 25 on Thursday and ten yesterday making 221 since the unemployment committee was established. The Society of Engineers placed eight men tins week and ri'e Returned Soldiers Association found work for GO in the past ten days, although only 25 of the number obtained other .than very temporary employment.

THE WRECKED IVIANAIA. SA IjVAGE SUCCESSFUL. AUCKLAND; Juno M. Salvage operations were commenced on tbe Mannm on Saturday morning. Four life boats were kept in operation between the Ilium and Manaia. The salvage gang first cleared all the portable equipment-, and thou httaekeil (be fixtures with sledge hammers and coal chisels. The saloon and cabins wore cleared of furniture. The engineers spent the day removing the small machine fittings, etc. Tlie only cargo not. put aboard the Mo til is a few eases of fruit in the front hold. THE SHIP DOOMED. AUCKLAND. Juno 13. Tl, o Manaia is now bumping with lie rise and fall of the tide. There is practically no hope of getting her off - MANAIA A BANDONED. AUCKLAND, June 14.

Listing heavily to port, her hows and gaping below water line on the loeks of Slipper Island, the Manilla ' abandoned at seven o’clock on Saturday night, after an inspection had shown an attempt to refloat was futile. When the vessel struck at 11.30 on Thursday the impact was terrific. Several of the crew were thrown from their bunks. Captain Xorbury. who was on tlio bridge at the time, stn* there was a rainstorm at the time. He paid a tribute to the behaviour of the passengers. RO A R DING HOUSE F IRE. MARTOX; June I f. A fire early on Sunday morning gut'ed Trocadero boardinghouse, an old. two-storied, wooden building at -Mai ton Junction. Seventeen occupants escaped escaped in their night attire unhutt, except Patrick Fogarty. 30, a .railway employee, who was severely burned on the legs and W. .J. Quinn. 42. a labourer. who received internal injuries through falling to the ground from the top storey. Both are progressing satisfactorily. The glare of the flames lit up the country for miles around. Hundreds gathered in the vicinity and saw the firemen’s futile efforts. Nothing was saved. An adjoining residence was saved though badly damaged hv water. The boardinghouse was owned hy Airs Wunsch, of Plmerstoiv North The damage is estimated at three thousand. FIRE AT WAIROA. WATROA, June 14. At an early hour yesterday morning a fire broke out in Sheehan’s bakery premises which were gjitted. Owing to the splendid new water pressure, Mills’ big sample rooms were only slightly damaged, the Brigade making a wonderful save. There was over £5,000 worth of traveller’s samples in the building at the time, the stock and building being hardly damaged. Insurance Cl .000. Sheehan’s unavailable. THE LAUNCH KOA. AUCKLAND, June 14. Deprived of all he possesses, but thankful for his escape from a plight in which the squally weather near North Cape on Friday placed the launch Koa, Vere Harrison, the owner of the ill-fated craft arrived with most of the members of crew hy the Waiotahi from Parenga, on Saturday night Thus ended the ambitious scheme of the master of a harbour passengei launch, who set out to make an ocean voyage of 800 miles to engage in tliewhaling industry at Norfolk Island. Harrison says when he failed to join up with the Resolution he resolved to make for Norfolk Island independently. He set out for the Island qei*' confidently, but the conditions were such that it would have Wen impossible for nil experienced mariner t<have guided the launch ' successfully through the ordeal, while an angry sec did its best to capsize the craft. Harrison strove to keep his course, hut he changed his mind when 20 miles out He would certainly have been lost had he gone anv further, remarked HarI rison. The' craft was turned and it took six hours' to retrace the distance the vessel had covered. T"o great seas broke over the ship, which was kept.in a straight course only with extreme difficulty. Water rolled all round them and there was a huge swell. Just before we beached the Koa, said Harrison, the members. of the crew were playing cards. I left one game and went on deck where I. noticed a heavv ,sea coming up the hay. Me immediately decided to make for tine shore. The vessel reached it on the crest of a huge roller. Had we remained in our position we wonltl have been

swamped. The following day assistance came to the crew from Tepaki station. That night was spent in a tent improvised from the sail of the launch. TlJay found the following day that the auncli which had been beached bow on, had been turned round by the pressure of the sea, tbe keel being ripped from the craft, and big boles were found in the starboard side, and the Koa was a complete wreck. A AIISSING AVOAIAN. TAUMARUNUI, June 14. The police arc still making enquiries into tho disappearance of Airs R. Young, who is missing since Alny bJLh. i Detective Walsh, of Wanganui, Las been in Tauniarunui for the last lewdays making investigations. Alnny nimoitrs have been current since the woman’s disappearance, but nothing so far has tome of them. On Saturday a party blasted Wanganui river at tlie spot where tlie woman is supposed to have entered it, but efforts to find any truce of her were resultless.

THEFT SENTENCE. AUCKLAND, June 14

At the Police Court Ernest Hugo Korn, a master mariner, was sentenced to three months’ prison and twelve months’ reformative treatment for thefts from launches of accessories valued at £23 15s Cd. Accused is already serving a month of sleeping aboard a launch. OPJHI ON FIRE. NEW PLYArOUTH. June 11. The steamer Opihi has i-ist arrived from Nelson with lire on hoard. No particulars are available yet. The steamer belongs to tbe Union Company’s lleet and is of 1117 tons.