DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

SALE OF SHIPPING INTERESTS

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

GREY-MOUTH, Feb. 13

Advice received at Greymoutli today states the Lamb Shipping Co. of Australia has sold its shipping business to the Union Coy. The lour vessels involved are the Gabriella, Kalingo, Omana and a- new vessel, the Ihumata, to arrive in Australia next month.

MOTORING FATALITY.

INVERCARGILL, Feb. 13

Morton G. McLay, accountant, was killed instantaneously last night through a car becoming uncontrollable in the loose gravel and striking a telegraph, post. Deceased was aged 35, and leaves a widow and ore child. .; i ! SUICIDE VERDICT. GISBORNE, Feb." 13. A verdict of suicide was returned by the Coroner in connection with tlio death of Peter Wilson Muir, 43, a farmer rtf Manutuke, who leaves a widow, three daughters and one son. On Monday morning at 8 o’clock Muir had not come into his house for breakfast and a search was made by his daughters and resulted in the discovery of his body lying face downwards in a few inches of water in a creek on the farm.

EX- PREMIER SERIOUSLY ILL. DUNEDIN, February 13. Sir Thomas MacKenzie lias been in a private hospital since about the New Year, and his condition is serious, his sons have arrived. He was unconscious this morning..

RECOMMENDATION SUPPORTED. HAMILTON, February 13. Support of a recommendation of Dr Valentine, Director General of Health, that indigent hospital patients requiring radium treatment lie provided with hoard, lodging and railway fares ■ to the centres, was given by the Waikato Hospital Board to-day. A. Blackman said the Waikato Board was the fourth largest in the Dominion and provision of radium there might be advisable.