DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1930, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

POWER FAILS IN AUCKLAND. B Telegraph—Press Assn., Copyright AUCKLAND, Jan. 22. Thousands of Auckland workers were late in arriving at business this morning through the trami services on all city and suburban lines being crippled by a breakdown in the Arapuni electrical supply. The power went off at 7.56 and was not restored for 25 minutes. The interruption could not have happened at a more inconvenient time, for business people were stranded miles from their destinations when they had allowed the minimum of time in which to reach the city. Two hundred tramcars were held lip at various points. INQUEST ON MOTOR VICTIM. INVERCARGILL, January 23. An inquest concerning the death of Catherine Turner, a widow, aged 57 years, of Fairfax, who died on Januar loth, as the result of injuries received when a motor car in which slie was a passenger skidded in gravel and capsized on Dacre Road. A verdict of accidental death was returned. MOTOR, COLLISION. WELLINGTON, January 23. P. O. Pope, clerk, resident of Ellice Street, received a lacerated wound and shock, as the result of a collision at Lower Hutt yesterday. BOY KILLED ON RAILWAY. WELLINGTON, January 23. The inquest is proceeding on Maurice Leonard Howell, 14, who lost his life by somehow falling from a train near Paekakariki on December 26, while proceeding to camp at Levin, under the supervision of Rev Feilden Taylor.

Tire evidence showed that he was among a number of boys occupying a Z waggon, , the one of the sliding door type so often brought into use at holiday times to carry second-class passengers. The door on each side was partially open to admit air, the only guard being two iron bars. The Department claims that there was a certain amount of skylarking among the boys. There was evidence of deceased having been smoking, and wrestling was also indulged in. A boy gave evidence that deceased fell against him, then slid out beneath the bars, and it is suggested that Tie might have been fainting, sick, or unconscious.

CONTRACTOR KILLED. FALL FROM SCAFFOLDING. AUCKLAND, January 23. James Garner, aged 66 years a contractor, was killed this morning as the Tesult of his falling 32 feet from a scaffold in a garage building. He was working inside the building, and fell from the scaffold on to the- concrete floor below. He sustained severe head injuries, and died three hours after admission to the hospital. FATAL SKID. HASTINGS, January 21. A M aori named Tos Pohio, aged 21 single, while driving a motor lorry this afternoon at Pakowhai Road, in the direction of Taradale, was killed. A hoy and girl, Harvey Rika and Eva Andrews, each about 17, were also on the lorry. In passing a car travelling in the same direction, the lorry skidded in the shingle across the road and half capsizing into a ditch. The boy and girl were thrown clear on the left, and escaped with bruises and shock, but Pohio on the right was evidently struck on the head by the edge of the ,eab in the capsize, and was killed almost instantaneously.

DRAPERY STOLEN. A BIG HAUL. WELLINGTON, Jan. 23. Some time during the week-end a burglar raided the premises of Te ssrs George and George, drapers, in R.iddiford Street, Newtown, and succeed eu in getting away with materials and goods to the value of some hundreds of pounds. Some reticence is observed as to what actually occurred. From such information as can be obtained, it seems that access was secured by undermining a wall at the rear of trapremises. It is understood that enough stock is missing to require a couple of oars to take away. The premises are next to the Newtown School, and possibly the stolen goods were carried away by this route, as the raiders would he able to work quietly aud get away in the shelter of the school to a side street.

A SERIOUS CHARGE. AUCKLAND, January 24. Alleged to have been illegally operated on by Maud Herbert, aged 41, Jane Muir Burcles aged 28, died at Auckland hospital last night. At the inquest to-day, evidence ctf identification was given by chief Detective Hammond, who said the dead, girl was tlie wife of John Hugh Malcolm Burdes, an engineer of Devonport. Her depositions were taken in the hospital on December 30, in connection with a charge of performing an illegal operation. Mrs Burdes was married in the hospital a few days after being admitted. JL Hie inquest was adjourned.