DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

TOWN PLANNING

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

DUNEDIN. Jan. 31

According to comment by Hun. De La Perrellc, there is likely to he some amendment to the Town Planning Act. giving local authorities wider powers to control developments within llx*ir areas. One mutter under consideration. lie said, was further facilities for co-operalion of local bodies over an area .sufficiently wide to ensure proper planning and co-ordina-tion prior to the preparation of separate! town planning schemes. INQUEST VERDICT. NAPIER, January 31. A verdict of accidental drowning was returned at the inquest on the two boys. Douglas and .Macfarlane, who lost their lives in the inner harbour on Thursday of last week. The Coroner said it was summertime’s toil ot young life. The evidence showed that a severe gale sprang up after a thunderstorm while the hoys were sailing. POST MORTEM FINDING. AUCKLAND, Jan. 31. The suggestion of death from strychnine poisoning, in the case of Laura Ereda Lewis, reported yesterday, has been entirely disproved by the results oi a past mortem. Gilmour, the hospital pathologist, says it was impossible to diagnose eerebrae haemorrhage, which was actually the cause of death. He had known of only two similar cases. SETTLER’S DEATH. GISBORNE, Jan. 31. K. F. Reed, a well known settler and member of Matakaoa County Council, who was found unconscious on a bridle track on one of his statins several weeks ago and has since been lying at Tepuia Hospital with flickering gleams of consciousness died to-day. It is presumed Reed had a fall from or was kicked by his horse, sustaining concussion.