DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

A FATAL FALL

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association

AUCKLAND, March 8,

Caught by a gust of wind while standing on a small ledge of the Temperance and General Assurance Companys new premises at the corner of Wellesley and Elliott streets, Ernest Frank (Rutherford, a carpenter, who resided at 10, Queen’s Parade, Devonport, met a saddend death by falling 150 feet'into the gtjfet. He was mar-:' ried, and had three years’ war service.’

The accident was witnessed by a number of pedestrians and by several girls in a drapery store, which is on the opposite side of Elliott .street. The 'encased was fixing some boxing for the concrete on the tower, and a heavy wooden shutter which he was lifting, acted like a sail in a fresh breeze that was blowing, and hurled him backward 4‘. The ledge he was standing on was only G* inches wide.

APPEAL court.

WELLINGTON, March 10

At the Appeal Court, Chief Justice Myers, Justices Herdman, Blair, Smith and Kennedy, met to-day and fixed dates for thirteen cases, the first of which cases will not be heard till Thursday. It is a motion for leave to appeal to the Privy Council in Scales v. Young, an Ashburton licensing case ' heard by the Appeal Court last September.

A BURGLARY. THAMES, March 10,

Burglars on Saturday night entered the shop of Alar tin (draper) by forcing' the back door, obtaining a sum estimated at £3O. Part of the takings of tile shop were secured at noon. The theft was discovered at midnight.

A LABOUR DEMAND

TAUMARUNUT, March 10,

Waimarino Labour representation committee passed a resolution protesting against the policy of tile Government regarding Samoa, and asking that the present policy be changed to one of conciliation, with a view to restoring harmony; also that the present Administrator be recalled.

FOUND HANGING

WAIPUKURAU, March 10,

The body of Ernest Phillips, . aged 46 years, a motor lorry driver, and well known resident of, Waipukurau, was found hanging by a rope' in a garage at seven this morning. He leaves a wife and three children of a former marriage.

CAR SMASH. AUCKLAND, March 10

A motor car, with six occupants, driven by H. Jackson from Te Kuiti, went over a. bank at Ivingsland at 10 p.m. on Sunday. It crashed through a fence and stopped against the front of a house in which Mr 3 L. Wdbb was asleep.'The front of the car crumpled up. A young woman in the car sustained severe injuries. The others escaped lightly.

CENTENARIAN’S DEATH

AUCKLAND, March 10.

Mrs Eliza Ormiston, wife of the late William Ormiston, diqd at Onehunga on Saturday in her 102nd year, having been born on August 30, 1828. She arrived in New Zealand 69 years ago.

CAR ACCIDENT.’

GISBORNE, March 10

Leaving the road at a sharp bend near Whatntutu, a motor car driven by Peter Te Rito dived 45 feet down an embankment and became completely wrecked. Te Rito and another Maori, Rangi Rum. were severely injured. Another native escaped with minor abrasions.

MEMORIALS UNVEILED

GISBORNE, March 10.

A large gathering at Waiomatatini yesterday witnessed the unveiling of a memorial to Lady Ngata, the ceremony being performed by Hon. G. Forbes, and also a memorial to Makarini Ngata, son of the native Minister was unveiled by Mr K. S. Williams M.P. Hon. Forbes after attending native functions at Waiomatatini visited.Teanraroa to-dav, and is expected to return to Gisborne to-night. Hon. Ransom arived last night from Rotorua and went south this morning.

Hon. Forbes formally received an application from Sir A. Ngata, that the Agricultural Department officer should he stationed in Waiapn, where dairying amongst the Maoris is expanding.

CHARITABLE, BEQUESTS

TIMARU. March 10

Under the will of the late William Evans. £950 was le't to various churches and charitable institutions, including £IOO to the Salvation Army, fIOO to Rnrnadoes’s Homes and T2OO to the Jubilee Institute for the blind at Auckland.

LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONY

DUNEDIN, March 10

Station 4YA as an experimental preliminary established two-way verbal communication with New York early this morning. Voices from Dunedin were conveyed bv telephone cable to 2YA, Wellington, and thence broadcast on a short wave station to Sydney and passed on to 2X, New 4 ork. Replies received from the latter were picked up direct here hv Russell Owen. The New York Times will speak through this system early to-morrow morning and Byrd at 0.30 on Wednesday morning.