DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1930, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

B Telegraph—Press Assn., Copyright TRAIN SMASHES VAN. CARTERTON, Jan. 8. Hugh Robinson,l when driving a a butcher’s motor van, ran into a goods train near the Matarana station shortly after noon to-day. He was killed outright. The van was smashed, to matchwood.

FLOURMILL FIRE. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 8. Insurances on the Oust- flour mill, which was destroyed by fire, total £29,495 in the Royal Office. The damage is estimated at over £‘20,000.

BUILDING IN WELLINGTON WELLINGTON, Jan 9. Permits for buildings in Wellington to the value of £2,490,486 were issued last year. The figures are taken from contract, prices. In 1928 the value also exceeded two millions and in 19-27 it was just under that total, the average for three years being a little over. Appearances are that this year will he equally busy, if the railway station and national museum are started. Three large hotels and one theatre are also on the tapis.

GENEROUS BEQUESTS. . CHRISTCHURCH. Jan. 9. Bequests totalling six thousand five hundred sterling were left to various charities under the will of the late Thomas Quealy, of Kaituna, farmer, including £IOOO eaic-h to Nazareth Home, Mount Magdala Homo, and Home of Conipassion (Wellington): £SOO each to Father Barr’s Boys Home (London), Lewisham Hospital and Bishop Brodie for the relief of poor in the Diocese.

LOGGER KILLED. PALMERSTON N., Jan. 9. William Green, twenty-five, whose mother lives at Kaikorai, Dunedin, was engaged in hauling logs out of the bush in Otaki Gorge yesterday, when a log slipped from the chocks and crushed Green’s head against another log. He was hospitalled, hut died last evening. AN INQUEST. WELLINGTON, Jan. 9. In returning a verdict of accidental drowning at the inquest on Crockett, whose body was recovered near the Miramar wharf after deceased h"' l boon missing since Christmas Eve. Coroner Barton said that in his opinion it was extremely probalble deceased .was blown into the water by the strong wind prevailing on the 24 th December.