DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

NEW ZEALAND NEWSPAPERS CONFERENCE. COMPLIMENTARY DINNER, By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 26. . The General Committe of the New Zealand Newspaper Proprietors Association has conferred on Mr L. Blundell of the. 1 “Evening Post,” Wellington, the honour of a life membership in the Association. This announcement was made last night at a. complimentary dinner tendered to the New Zealand Newspaper Proprietors Association,, the New Zealand Press Union and the New Zealand Branch, of the Empire Press Union, by the Mount Cook .Motor Company at, of the conferences. Mr R. L. Wriglcv presided.

MINE DEPUTY INJURED. GPLYMOUTH, Feb. 26. J. Vaughan, a mine, deputy at Blackball, was entrapped by a fall of coal in the mine at midnight.. His left, thigh was fractured and ribs broken and he received severe shock. His condition is serious and he was hospitalled.

ESCAPEE'S. RECAPTURED. PUKEKOHE, Feh. 26. The three youths who escaped from the Pukekohe police cells yesterday by forcing the bars from the window, were recaptured this morning at Paerata. Yesterday afternoon and last night the police searched a wide area ,of the country. Last evening it was reported the prisoners were seen in Auckland the police appeared hot on the trail, hut they evaded capture under cover of darkness. The escapees were supposed to have been seen at Pukekohe railway station about 10 p.m., and that accounts for the report at an early hour this morning that they were seen at Cape Hill, near Paerata. where they slept under a bay stack for a few hours. After midnight they followed the railway line to near Paerata. where they were seen by eight people. An exciting chase followed, but the police missed the trail again. Scrub and railway cuttings assisted the prisoners, who were observed to go into a hedge near Mrs King’s property on the Paerata road, where they were discovered by Constable S. O’Donnell and two other searchers, huddled up like rabbits in a burrow. They were arrested and taken to the police station.