DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1928, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

MAORI’S FATAL FALL.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

WAIROA, Nov. 30. Yesterday Harry Itehea, a Maori aged 22, fell over a cliff at Ormonds, Kini Kini Station (Mahia), while mustering sheep, and died shortly afterwards from injuries. At an inquest to-day a verdict of accidental death was returned.

OTAGO AERO CLUB

DUNEDIN, Nov. 30,

The Otago Aero Club lias purchased a ground for an aerodrome at Green Island, a few miles south of Dunedin.

DUNEDIN HARBOUR LOAN,

DUNEDIN, Dec. 1

The Harbour Board has negotiated another fifty thousand loan in one lot in connection with the £3SO,(XX) sterling harbour improvement scheme.

OLD SETTLERS’ DEATH,

DARGAVILLE, Dec. 1

Obituary—Thomas Basset, aged 72, founder and chairman of Northern Dairoa Dairy Company for over twentyfive years, and. more recently managing director. Ex-chairman and member of Kaipara Hospital Board since its inception, and one time member of every local body in the district. He was bom in England in 1856 and came to the district with his parents in 1876 and had lived her© ever since. He is survived by a widow, two sons and one daughter.

SAFETY VALVE TIED DOWN. WELLINGTON, November 29

That he had acted in ignorance was the excuse put forward by Charles Gordon Noble, in the Pctone Court yesterday, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of so overloading the safety valve of a boiler that it tended to increase the pressure in the (boiler beyond that stated in the certificate.

The facts set forth by the Inspector of Machinery were that the valve on a boiler in defendant’s premises was secured so that there was no limit to the boiler pressure, with the possible effect that the boiler might burst and wreck the premises. The Department looked on this kind of offence as very serious, but in this case did not press for a severe penalty. Noble stated that the normal pressure in his boiler was 1001 b. At the time of the offence the valve was blowing at 801 b, and in his ignorance lie had stopped it from blowing. A fine of £1 and costs was imposed.