DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

ROTORUA BLOW-OUT

[By Telegraph, Per Press Association.]

ROTORUA, Nov. 1

A blow-out of considerable dimensions took place last night near Ohinemutu, on the Lake front, on an area o$ some :15yds. across. A previous explosion had taken place at the same spot. Debris was hurled a considerable distance. No one was passing the spot at the time, which is the centre of a bridle track, .

MILL MANAGER KILLED

ROTORUA, Nov. 1

Frederick Charles Allen, a married man, aged about sixty, mill manager for Gammon and Co., Manakau, died this morning when on the way to the King George V Hospital, through injuries he /received when returning from the bush on a locomotive. Deceased was leaning from the cab to ascertain what was obstructing the 'machinery when his head struck on a cattle stop support,

WOMAN MOTOR. VICTIM,

AIASTERTON, Nov. 1

,An inquest into the death of Airs Emma ,Smith, who was fatally injured in a motor c‘ir collision in Masterton on Thursday evening, was opened this afternoon,-before District Coroner G. E. jEton.,. Formal evidence of identification was given by the son of deceasedj - and the inquest was . adjourned sine die.

, .FOUND DEAD

... „JNA r EROARGILE, . Nov. 1. , ' Robert’ Forbes' Gibson,' a carpenter-, aged 54, .was found dead at his house in Sydney Street this evening. He had been living alone for some time.

YOUNG WIDOW’S CLAIM

CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 1

The Supreme Court heard the claim of Ruth Sylvia Rutherford, a minor, and a widow, for increased benefits from the will of her late husband, Bertie Cecil Rutherford. • Plaintiff, who is nineteen years of had been married only nine months when her husband died. There wAre no children. She claimed that £^ooo,‘'Which she received from the Estate, was liot sufficient for her ade%nfte jnain.tena.nce. Mf’he claim was based on the fact sfe had been brought 'up'• with Ifft ' view to earning her living, and during her married life she lived on a'-scale that the provisions under the will .made it impossible for her to keep up. In dismissing the . application Judge Adams said lie was .satisfied that the testator had made adequate revision. .The..standard, of-.jiving set up by the affidavit was purely imaginary.