DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

FATHER ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS SON. [By Telegraph, l'er Press Association.] HAAIILTON, July 9. At Glenmassey on Sunday, David Kerr, an employee at the brick works, and his two sons went shooting. One son, William, fired at a rabbit on the other side of a lence and wounded it. The second son, David, aged eleven, dived’ through the fence alter the rabbit, just as the father fired. The bullet struck the boy in the head, killing him, instantaneously. At the inquest yesterday, Air F- A\ 7 . Platts, the Coroner, returned a verdict of accidentally shot. '-f

REA! ARK ABLE ESCAPE. FALL FROM BUILDINGS. AVELLINGTON, July 10. Two men had remarkable escapes from serious injury to-day when one of them fell from a height of forty feet, and the other from a height of twenty-seven feet. The first accident occurred when George Hutchinson, a pipe fitter, of Upper Hutt, fell twenty-seven feet while working in the Lower Hutt Railway Workshops, Hutchinson, who is employed by Alessrs A. and T. Burt. Ltd., was putting holts in the ceiling near some machinery when he had his clothes caught by a machine and torn completely off him. He was then flung to the ground. The Free Ambulance was summoned and he was removed to the Public Hospital suffering from a fractured left wrist, and abrasions to tire chest, neck and right arm, and also shock.

The man who fell forty feet was G. AATlliams, o'f 11, Elizabeth Street, Lower Hutt, and he escaped with lesser injuries than Hutchinson. • AYilliams, who is a storeman at Al’Duff’s, Ltd., at the corner of Cuba and Dixon streets, fell through a skylight there at 3.10 p.m., and sustained an incised wound on the right eye and abrasions to the face and hands.

DOMINION FACTORY. AMERICAN COMPANY’S INTENTIONS. AUCKLAND, July 9. A company is to be formed in Nov Zealand for the manufacture of Listerine tooth paste and other products The factory will he erected in Wellington, as it is the' most central city in the Dominion from which to work. Mr C. H. Haerie, export manager of the Lambert Pharmacal Company of Jersey City, U.S.A., arrived by the Ulimaroa from Sydney to-day and gave some particulars about the new company. He said that the New Zealand and Australian business of the firm lmd grown so rapidly that it had been decided to manufacture the products in those two countries. A company had been formed in Sydney and the factory there will he opened shortly to supply the demands of the Commonwealth. The same filing will he done in New Zealand, and, with this object in view, Air Haerie will attend to the formation of the Dominion company. He says that it will be the end of the year before final arrangements have been made, and that, shortly afterward, the factory will be erected.