DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1929, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

SERIOUS MOTOR COLLISION. CAR AND LORRY MEET. (By Telegraph—rress Association). PALMERSTON N., March 5. A serious accident occurred this morning on Longburn Road, threequarters of a mile from Longburn township, between a heavily laden lorry and a five seater car containing four occupants. 'The impact was heard half a mile away. The car was completely wrecked and the lorry was extensively damaged. The car occupants were all injured about the head and face and were all taken to the hospital. The lorry driver was uninjured. Harper, the driver of the car was accompanied by Misses Brooke and Taylor, two high school girls. The occupants of the car were all injured exccut the driver who was jammed. Debris was scattered over the road. Details of the injuries are not available at present. TAXI DRIVERS RESOULTION. NAPIER, March 6. : Taxi drivers and service car proprietors of Napier passed a resolution protesting against charges under the third party insurance Act, complaining that tliev have to pay too much and the private owner too little. They claim the majority of 'accidents occur to private owners aiid that the burden of taxation became so great already that taxi men and services barely make a living. SHOCKING RAILWAY FATALITY. / HAWERA, March 5. Apparently falling in front of a fast moving train Gladys Ethel Evans a young married woman residing herewith her husband W. R. • Evans, at Hawera, was killed instantly on the Turuturu Road level railway crossing half a mile from Hawera station about ten o’clock this morning. The train , was a mixed goods and passenger tra- ’ veiling south from New Plymouth to Hawera. When about a quarter of a mile from the crossing the fireman and the driver saw a woman standing alone at the side of the crossing. Tile whistle was sounded and it appeared the woman was waiting for the train to pass. As the train approached she commenced to move along the cattle stop steadying herself with her hand on the guard rail, but just as the engine reached the cattle stop she appeared to fall across the rail directly beneath the catcher. Her body was'practically cut to pieces the. upper portion being mutilated almost (beyond recognition. Indentification was established through a receipt found and clothing. NEW ZEALAND CHEMISTS CONFERENCE. NAPIER, March S. Tlie Jubilee Annual Conference of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Society opened this morning. Delegates were present from all over the Dominion. 'A civic reception was the delegates by the Mayor J. \ igoi Brown, W. E. Barnard, M.P.* and L. Pickering, President of the Thirty Thousand Club. | H. ,J. Pritchard, the Wellington; President of the, Society, in art ad-' dress predicted' greater developments! in chemistry in.the next fifty years than even in the- past fifty years. A LONELY DEATH. CHRISTCHROH, March 5. The dead body of Peter Hunt, a returned soldier, was found in ■' house at New Brighton this evening. Hunt who lived alone in the house, had not been seen for several days The owner of the house to-night forced the door and found the body lying on,the floor. An' inquest will be opened to-morrow. SUICIDE. INVERCARGILL, March 5. That the deceased died from the effects of a bullet wound, self inflicted, while in a state of mental depression was the verdict returned this afternoon by the jury at the conclusion of the inquest touching the death of Stanley Milburn, whose body was found in a paddock on 'Saturday. One juror dissentented from the verdict of suicide. MORE IMMIGRANTS. 117 BY MATAROA. AUCKLAND, March 6. An example of the operation of the embargo on immigration was provided by the Mataroa, which berthed from London to-day, after a record voyage in point of speed. There were lh third-class passengers, and only 38 were assisted immigrants, nine of whom are for Wellington, and eight for the South Island.