DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1928, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

CYCLIST KILLF.D BY ID’S.* ;<\ i eiegro mi -j in IT> is Associalir.n.i Cl I R ISTCIIF RCIi. Dec. 10. Alexander Swanson, of Lees Lon, aged 00. married, was killed on the road a mile north of Dunsandel, on Saturday. lie was on a hieyeie when h<‘ was .struck and run down hy a motor bus. ! jlcatli was instantaneous. fatal car crash, waimate, Dec. m. William Allred Charles Hroa<l. aged 22. single, a grocers assistant, ol Herald ine, was killed in a collision with a motor lorry, four miles Trom Waimate. at 7 o’clock lasi evening. Deceased was driving a car containing j his lather and mother, and was reliiriij ing from a howling match at Waimar.c. | The car struck the lorry on a bridge. I continuing over the bridge, through a j wire fence, and down a fourteen feel i hank. Decease,|’s neck was broken, i His mother received a broken eoflarl»,iin*, and 1 1 is l.itlier severe facial injuries. A DARINH ROBBERY. AUCKLAND, Dee. 15. A daring robbery by expert sale blowers look place at ihe Hydra Huron Factory, opposite the Donsonby Dost Olliee, last night. The <loor of a large strong room was blown oil’ with gelignite, and a safe in another part of the olliee was forced open by Hie same means. From the latter £3O were stolen, but through the strong room door being wedged, intruders were unable to gain access to a further .sum of £BO.