DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1927, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

) (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) CENSOR APPOINTED. WELLINGTON, Aug. 27. t The appointment of Walter A. Tanc ner to the position of Censor of Cinc- , inning raph Films, in succession to the - late .Mr W. Joliffe, i.s announced. 3 Mr Tanner, who for'the past four . years has been Assistant Censor, was selected out of over fivo hundred applii emits. The salary is £550 per annum. ' Mr Tanner is the only son of the : late Mr AY. AY. Tanner, formerly M.P. • lor Avon. Ho has been a. member of - the Government Civil Service for about 34 years. Flo was for a time altarh- • cd to tlie Land and Income Tax Dei partment, and was for a. number of years in the office of the Chief Tn- ' speetor of Post Offices, During the war Mr Tanner acted as Deputy Chief Postal Censor. For his work in this connection, lie received a complimentary letter to the War Dili i e in London. as well as from the Chief Mili--1 tary Censor in New Zealand. FUNERAL OF HON. R. V. BOLLARD AA'KLLINGTON, August 27. The funeral of the late Hon. R. F. Bollard took place to-day and was largely attended. A service was held in St. Pauls pro-Cat.bedrid. A large lorry containing wreaths preceded the cortago. FALSE PRETENCES. George Anderson who has just come out of gaol, was sentenced to three months for obtaining money by fraud. RAILWAY CROSSING SMASH. ROT UR UA. August 28. A motor lorry, driven by Stanley Parsons, of Atiamuri. was hit by the j outgoing 3.15 p.m. train at Ranolof crossing. The lorry was thrown clear of the line and turned over. The driver escaped uninjured. The crossing is blind from the south.being blanketed by the engine sheds. " CARS AY RECK El). DUNEDIN. August 28. A motor ear accident occurred in the the city in the early hours of tins morning. A local land agent named Paterson was picked up unconscious on the footpath at the corner of ('rawford Street and the Anderson’s Bay Road, and his motor car, which was In a wrecked condition, was nearby. No details are yet nvaii’ablc. Paterson was still unconscious this afternoon. CARS COLLIDE. WANGANUI, Aug. 28. A car and service car collided at Turakitia, on a- bend, on Saturday morning. M ary Jackson, of AYanganui, six years, was badly cut about the face, and .suffered from shock. Her condition is serious. INJURED MOTOR CYCLIST. AYANGANUI, Aug. 28. There was a slight improvement today in the condition of Alfred Randall, a motor cyclist, who was injured in a collision with a motor car on Wednesday afternoon. CYCLISTS COLLIDE. WANGANUI, Aug. 28. ' During a cycling race on Saturday several riders in a hunch collided on the River Rank Road with Airs Walpolo, who was knocked unconscious, and sustained numerous cuts and abrasions. Her condition is serious. Barns, one of the riders, was badly cut about 1 the face, and was taken to the bos- " pital. '

HOY'S LEG SEVERED. HAMILTON". Aug. 28.

A sad accident hefei’Audrey AlcDedd, a boy of 11. whose parents reside at Pukckolie. When playing on thoXcwsto.'id Kami on Saturday, he 101 l from a disc plough, which passed over him, severing his left leg below the knee. Tho sufferer was admitted to tho Waikato Hospital. Ill’s condition is reported to lie satisfactory.

COMPENSATION AWARD. GISBORNE, Aug. 20. Tho Compensation. Court awarded George -Lawless £11420 -in satisfaction of the claims against the Gisborne Harbour Board for compensation for land taken for harbour purposes, Lawless claimed £28.415. .Jus- i tiro Ostler announced the Court’s decision was unanimous that each party pay their own costs. HOUSE DESTROYED . GTS BORNE, Aug. 29. The Essex House, a 20 roomed building at Hexton. the country residence of Porcival Barker, and until recently used as a- boys school, was destroyed fby lire last evening. It was in- - cured for £2500 in the State Office. There was no one living in the prein- , ises. The origin is a mystery. OBITUARY. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 29. Obituary—T. D. Bruce, aged 73, at Akaroa. He was a member of the Highways Board since 1923, and a prominent farmer. A BURGLARY. ' PALMERSTON N.. Aug. 29. During the temporary absence early in the evening of T. IT. Landers from 1 his istoro at Rongoten, a burglar forced open the back door which had been locked and gained admittance to the front shop robbing the safe of a considerable sum of money which inehuled a number of cheques, payment lor j which were at once stopped. A POLICE RAID. HAAVERA, Aug. 29. As the result of a police raid on a tobacconist shop on Saturday afternoon, Edward William Joseph Frost was charged later before a Justice with keeping a common gaming house, and was remanded to appear on Thursday, bail being allowed in self of £IOO and one surety of £IOO. A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. LEVIN.' Aug. 29. A serious accident happened to Miss Ethel Gray, aged 19. While on a tramping expedition with the I.eiitiWaiopehu Club, the handrail of a bridge broke, precipitating her to the bed of the stream thirty feet below. She sustained a broken wrist and a fractured pelvis, severe bruises and shock. She was removed to the Pal merston Hospital. A LUCKY ESCAPE. AVATROA. Aug. 29. What .might have been a serious accident occurred in the early liouis of Sundnv when a picture lorry ioturning from a performance at Tm smashed into a small bridge about tiu> miles from Frasertown through the lights failing. The lorry turned twocomplete somersaults and slid down the bank upside down. Three occupants received slight cuts otherwise | they escaped uninjured. The van s contents wero damaged. X TRAIN HITS LORRY, e PALMERSTON N.. Aug. 29. e The mail train to Napier this after- :, noon collided with a petrol tank lorry i- at the Square Crossing. The lorry was overturned, but the driver fortunately escaped injury. The petrol escaped from the lorry tank and it was necess sary for the police to take strict pfe--e cautions to preyent a fire and an explosion.