DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

WORKERS INJURED

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

WELLINGTON, April B

A I.ill of onrlli oovoi'od A. Caliiil and W . Little, two Council workmen, engaged in widening Wadestown road. itl'c’x injuries won- in (lie Inick and •ciil)). and' ;it lirst, wore believed to e serious, hut both lie and Cahill, whoso hip was dislocated, are progress-, ng well.

NEW MAGISTRATE

GISBORNE,. April 8

.Mr P. 11. Harper, the newly appointed Magistrate, took his seat for the first time on the Bench at Gisborne to-day and was. welcomed by the Law Society.

FATAL BURNING

THAMES, April 8

Maurice .Judd, aged fourteen, who was burnt by an explosion of gas in .Judd’s foundry on Friday night died at the hospital this morning. His father. John Judd, who was also burned, was able to leave the hospital to-day.

POSTMASTER'S DEATH. AUCKLAND, April 8

Hoy Jones, postmaster at Manurewii, Wiis found dead at (i a.in, in a shed at the back of the post, office. b v a telephone exchange operator. Death was caused i>v a 'shot, evidently discharged lor a pea rifle probably about twelve hours earlier. He was a single man. aged 41, and had been postmaster at Mamirewa for over two years. Very recently he was notified of promotion to Auckland Hast post olliec.

ELECTRIC SHOCK

CHRISTCHURCH, April 8

,). Worsdalo, married, received an electric shock at Lake Coleridge power house on Friday and was hospitalled in a serious condition, suffering, from burns on the lace and arms. His clothes became ignited by an electrical discharge, when testing the cables.