DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1928, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. > SERIOUS MOTOR SMASH. MASTERTON, Feb. 18. A serious motor accident happened in Queen Street, Mastcrton, shortly after t 7 o’clock this morning, when a Black '• and White delivery van from WellingY ton collided with Ivennth Oplin’s motor - lorry, which was conveying freezing ? works employees to Waingawa. Oplin’s 1 lorry had proceeded as far as the Con- - vent when the Black and White bus 1 appeared from the south. There was r no obstruction upon the road other - than a milk cart which was standing in 1 close to tlie kerb. The right hub cap f of the Black and-White bus struck the 5 lorry on the step, the Wellington bus 1 turning over. The hood portion of the ; lorry was badly smashed and many of ' the occupants injured. 1 Frank Shackleton had his skull frnc--1 tured. Frank Marsh received injuries to his ' shoulder. : William Hugh Long injuries to his spine. ; Hugh Carswell cuts and bruises. I These were removed to the hospital. • Shaekleton’s condition is serious. Charles Walister and Harry Stinipson received minor injuries. 1 Louis Framayne. driver of the Wel--1 lington bus, received slight injuries to his ribs but was all right after being attended to. Airs M. K. Bates, of Upper Hutt, who was travelling in the bus to Masterton, received minor cuts on the head and leg from flying glass of the windscreen. Work has been suspended for the day at Waingawa works, the butchers remaining in town making anxious inquiries about comrades in the hospital. RURAL CREDITS. WELLINGTON, Fell. 18. At the first meeting of the Rural Intermediate Credit Board yesterday, the present economic conditions affecting grain crops in Canterbury and other districts were considered. The Board decided it would agree to receive applications for advances oil security of wheat in store and would also assist the formation of co-operative Rural Intermediate Credit Associations by farmers desirous of joining together for the purpose of obtaining financial accommodation on securities of this nature. LOANS GRANTED. WELLINGTON. Feb. 18. At a meeting of the Local Government Loans Board forty-four applications for loans totalling -1257(5.015 were dealt with, including three renewal loans for C 9290, one unemployment loan for 012,000, and five loans for €79,(500. which had been previously deferred. Sanction was given for 0509,8(57 and £1(5(5,148 was declined or referred back For further consideration. HONORARY DEGREES. CHRISTCHURCH. Feb. 13. The University Council considered a letter to-day from a head mistress who urged that a pass might lie allowed in matriculation to a pupil who had failed by a very-'narrow margin -she gave the instance of mic-fifth per cent—to gain the forty-five per cent required for a pass. In the course of discussion the general opinion was (lull: the rules were flexible as they now were, and should lie adhered to strictly, and a motion In refer the letter to Lhe Statutes Committee for consideration was defeated. The letter was merely received and after the discussion the following motion was carried: “That a clause empowering the University to grant honorary degrees be inserted in the new Act. SUMMER TIME. CHRISTCHURCH. Feb. 19. The proposal that a plebiscite on summer time be taken at the same time as the general election this year was referred to by Mr T. K. Sidey to-day. Mr Side.v contended that the prophecies of disastrous results of the Summer Time had been falsified, and the Act had worked remarkably smoothly under the circumstances. Supporters of the Act were now entitlocT to ask that it should be placed on the Statute Rook- without the special provision in the Act of last year necessitating its re-enacted after a year of trial, ft : would then be in the same position as other sttatutes, and could lie repealed : in necessary. Mr Sidey indicated that he would not yield to the demand for a referendum.

A FATHER’S DISCOVERY. NEW PLYMOUTH, February 19. Sonic time on Friday evening Fredenvick William Harrison, aged 19 fell off the wlmrf into the harbour. Tie evidently struck bis bead on some thing, and was drowned. The family is living in two different houses, each thinking the boy was with the other. Yesterday afternoon a boy fishing on the wharf saw the body, and notified a police constable who sought the assistance of a man working with a boat on the beach. The man rowed out to the body, turned it over and discovered it was his son. There was an extensive bruise on the forehead. It was discovered that the boy had intended to board a. launch lying beside the wharf, and in going down a ladder, probably fell. He could not swim, but may have been rendered unconscious by the fall.