DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1930, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

HOUSE BURNT

(Bv Telegraph—Press AwooiirtUHO

TAURANGA. March 24

A two storied, eleven roomed house owned and occupied by .1. Harrison, was totally destroyed by are late on Saturday. The occupants were -all away at the time. The fire engine brokq down on the way to- the house and was transferred to a motor, but the fire had too great a hold. Insurance pn house is £2COO, and furniture £4OO in South British Office.

FOUND DEAD,

HAAVERA, March 24

Late last evening the body of Frederick George Peters of Hawcra, manager ol a brush factory was found ill a gas filled room in the factory building On Saturday morning deceased left home stating he was going to Stratford on business. As he had failed to return a search was made of tlie factory by a neighbour who discovered Peters lying on the floor of a' room,. Deceased leaves a wife and young-family of lour.

FOUND DROAVNED

CHRISTCHURCH, March 23

The body of a woman, • about sixtv rears of age, was found'in the.. Wei rarapa stream, a tributary 6t tinAvon River, this morning. So far the body. Inis not been identified. '< • .... ......

TWO YOUNG BOYS DROWNED

AUCKLAND, Afrireh 23

Two boys lost their lives' •’ liy -drownbig in Auckland during the week-end by slipping from li narrow path into a dam at the Chelsea Sugarworks. On Saturday morning, 'William Albion, aged nine, was drowned. The boy was taking lunch to bis father William Aloon, who is employed by b (J Colonial Sugar Refining Coy. am’ was accompanied by another small boy. ■vlip gave the alarm. A worker from 'he refinery dived into the dam and '’covered the body from the bottom. \ doctor applied resuscitation for two ■ml n-half hours, without success. The second drowning accident oc•Hired at-. .Mechanic's Bay, about three :'’clock-Mliis afternoon, when Godfrey Neville., aged eight, residing with lm '•inrents in Balfour Road, Parnell, lost is k'l’e through falling from the •barf.' The boyiwas with two/ Com■'anions' who left him to fi sir from anchor position on a rook retaining wall. About twenty minutes' after their donnrture, a,member of the Akarana Auditing Club, who had been rowing, in the hay, found Hip ;bqjd;s in 'be 'water. A*'ch)ct'of 'appited artafioal ■•c,sr>iration for over an hour, without success. ;b; - young woman drowned. ■ DUNEDIN j, M A roll " A young woman, Harried Ala vis" McAlister, was drowned wKife'swimming ii a pond' atWhare Flrit : about--- 1.30 p.m. to-dav. Se was 27 yehrs mf-age-and lived-at : Rosyln. 1 ■' ; “" J : OLD ALAN’S COLLAPSE. DUNEDIN. Alii roll 23. Alfred Octave Oudavillcv 73, col'apsed in a billiard saloon yesterday ■ afternoon, while playing a game', and died on the way to the hospital. ; At the inquest to-day, a -verdict ot ’-•dh from heart failure was returned ed.

BOYS’ ESCAPE FROM PROBATION HOME. AUCKLAND, March 24. Two bovs aged 16 -aiid 12, - escaped from Mount Albert Bovs’ Probation Home on Saturday. .They were, : re? fiaphcred at AI etPer this morning. They were walking through-the township and had 2d between, them,-They, have admitted breaking .and entering during the week-end, three shops; at Avondale, Point Chevalier and Grey Lynn, and they attempted to. enter •1 nother shop. . , •

BABY DTPS AT SEAA V ' ■ AUCKLAND, -March. 34

An infant in the second class op "the- steamer iMaungaiiiii, from Sydney, died at seii to-day, according to a wireless report received from the Captain. No further particulars .wove given. The' vessel is due at Auckland at seven o’clock to-morrow morning.

CHINESE BANKR UPT

SENTENCED TO GAOL

AUCKLAND, March' 24

A Chinese fruiterer, formerly of To Arolia, named Jam Gow, was sentenced By Air Hunt 5.M.,, in . the Police Coi/rt to-day to two months’ imprisonment for a breach of the Bankruptcy Act. Gow was charged with contracting debts to the extent of £250 during November apt! December without any' reasonable expectation of being able to pay them and with fraudulently removing pnVt of '-hiproperty valued at £sß.' Cows liabilities were given as £•'£:),• and hiassets as nil. CounoP represent i” the Official Assignee sr : d that t a serious case, because a Chinese

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