DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

UNLICENSED DRIVER. By Telegraph—Per Press Association^ WAIPUKURAU, May 17. Robert Black, a service car driver, was convicted and fined £2 for driving a car with six passengers and luggage weighing over two tons, without being in possession of a heavy traffic license. ' 1 ' INQUEST ON BOY VICTIM. WELLINGTON May 17. At the inquest .into the death of the young boy, Kenneth Adrian Murray Pain, who was Killed on the Petone Esplanade, on April 17th, a verdict was returned that death was due to cerebral injuries through his being knocked down (by a bus driven by John. Creswell Cowlashaw. FOUND HANGEDi AUCKLAND* May 18. Walter Stephenson, 41, •, married, with one child, was found hanged at his residence Mont Le Grand© Road yesterday afternoon. He resigned from the . instructorship, of,. the Seddon Memorial fcfollego, to 'take a position in the High School at Rototua, for which lie was to leave soon. ;'"’a chllA death. AUCKLAND, ,18. At the inquest on* Frederick James Cole, aged two, son -of Sydney |Cole, of .Pqnsonby, the eviiclence showed the father placed a tirijlHof boiled water in the scullery. TRqf child Iran into the house, turned sh'arply •' and fell backwards into the tin. ’ Although the boy recovered somewhat at the hospital from the 1 severe scalding, spinal meningitis set in. FOUND HANGING. STRATFORD, May 18. William H. Kelly, auctioneer, was found hanging in his auction, mart at an eprly/hour this morning. A doctor was summoned and pronounced life extinct. :IH". n AH I.’’!'; C'QH ,?| .;l": c;-:i—if. V • UNEMPLOYMENT 1 GRANT; CHRISTCHURCH, May (38. •. TlifpCitvc] unanimously, accepted, the Go.yeyiunentjs offer cf i£2-5 - 000. for jjjvork costing fioOQO, will "be started immediately,.. - 1‘- , ■;. !- ; i ‘ :