DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1927, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS.

(liv Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

STOLEN AND BURNED. AUCKLAND, Oct. 19

A motor car owned by Air S. .7. Goman was stolen from the street in Newton on Monday niglit. It has been found at Wnikouhai, a few miles from the city with the tyres and hood badly burnt. This is the eleventh ear stolen and burnt in six months.

SAD DEATHS. HAMILTON. Oet,., 19.

After lingering for twelve months with a fractured spine. Roland Hootcii. aged twenty-four, engineer. of Putaruru, died in the hospital last night. A pathetic feature is that lie sustained the injury in a ear accident on his honeymoon.

Equally sad circumstances are. attached to the death of Sutherland Shaw, an elderly resident of Te Atatu, in the Waikato Hospital last night. A week ago he was proceeding with a party to Hamilton for the wedding of his daughter, when the ear hurst into flames. He was critically injured, and subsequently succumbed to shock and burns. 1X FI 11X G FLA IF.NTOF I’ AT ENT ALLEGED. WELLINGTON, Get. 19. Air Justice Reed gave judgment today in an action in which Roland Aloore Alnynder. a builder, of Palmerston North, churning that lie was the inventor of concrete tiles, alleged that the Wanganui Sash and Door Factory and Timber Company had infringed his patent and sought an injunct ion. Ill’s Honor said: "AY It i Ist giving the fullest, attention to the tact that Konka Sheet has had a vogue in its home town and the surrounding district, and has thereby raised a prima I'm in case for the invention, 1 find it impossible Lo say. in view of the public knowledge existing at tile time til,'ll anv exercise of the invention was net 'ssary to the first production ol ihL onlentod building sheet.’ .! udgmenl urn. given for defendant with I ISIS on Ibe I■t •• ! <*s 1 scale, as oil u judgment lor C'JO'lO. CHILD WELFARE. WELLINGTON. Oct. 20.

Mi's !•'. Al. Fordo, Voluntary AY oil hi gimi Otliccr. has presented her first annual report to the Wellington Education Board. She recommends that eat h case in w hich it. child, alter leaving svhiiol. has not a good home environment, or in which the parent oi parents are economically pinched, should he reported to the Child Welfare Branch of the Education Department. which has machinery for systematic treatment in good-habit training. She also recommends that an. endeavour be made to provide healthy recreation for children attending the si>ecia! classes. Airs Forde urges that provision should be made in the classes for more time to lie expended in the training of children on vocational lines, such as carpentry and cooking. Upon the second of these rocnfnmenrtations Afrs Fordo lays great stress. FAR AT LIFE. AYF LL fX G TON. Oct. 20. The Executive Committee of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union suggested the holding of a conference of fanners from all parts of the British Empire. the principal questions to he submitted being to deal with the modernising of farm life and the making of the industry more attractive and profitable as an investment. The. suggestion will he placed before the Hon Tj. S. Aniery during his visit. The President of the Union (Mr W. .T. Poison) was empowered to interview the Prime Minister’s Department in order to see if arrangements would permit a reception to Mr Amory f the farmers of the Dominion. FIREMAN INJURED. WELLINGTON, Oct. 20.

All outbreak of fire occurred tonight at No. '2 Evelyn Place, in a fiveroomed two-storied house, owned and occupied by Mrs Dorothy Maud Adams. A high wind was blowing, and the smoke added to the danger of the immediate buildings, which were of wood. The house and its contents were partially damaged.

Through a trellis work, which he was climbing, collapsing. Fireman J. Wright, aged 2A years, fell and iniur cl Ids back. He was admitted to the hospita!, but his condition is stated not to ho ,-oriou.:. INQUEST VERDICT. WETd .INC TON. Oct. 20. At the inf|Uest on Foster, who died from a bullet wound, got while out s'l-oliilg at Stokes \ alley yesterday, the finding was that death was due to the accidental discharge of the rifle carried by Foster.