DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

BOY DROWNED

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HAMILTON, May 6. Herbert Rodpath, aged 8, the son of James Redpath, manager of Ngaruawaliia Bakery, was drowned in the Waikato River last night. Tlie boy was swinging on a rope attached to a tree over the river at Ngaruawahia, when he released his hold, falling in/ The police are dragging for the tody

TEACHER. KILLED.

WANGANUI, May 6

A. H. Abernethy, a teacher at .the Technical School, sustained a fractured skull last evening through his cycle skidding and the rider crashing into a bank. He was; hospitalled, but died early this morning.

MAIN TRUNK MISHAP.

AUCKLAND, May 6.

The ordinary main trunk express, due at Auckland at 6.41 a.m. ran into a stationary goods train near Mercer early this morning, knocking two waggons off the line, Nobody was injured, -ut traffic was dislocated, resulting in passengers arriving at the city after 9 o’clock. The limited express is not expected till about noon (instead of 9.34 a.m.)

WELLINGTON WOOL SALES. WELLINGTON, May 6. At the Wellington wool sales this season bales were offered and /4,093 were sold at an average of £l3 11s 4d per bale and.9.204d, !

STORE BURNT.

WELLINGTON, May 6.

A store and post office at Tawa Flat was burned early this morning. No details at present.

INQUEST VERDICT

WELLINGTON, May 6,

At the inquest on Lucy Jane Hampton, killed in Lambton Quay by a motor car on March 29th, evidence was given by a passenger that he and the driver had each had two drinks. The driver was careful and gave warning at the intersection. Deceased appeared to have stepped hack in front of the car. Two ladies who saw the accident also said the deceased and a friend with her appeared to hesitate and step back and there was nothing to show the motorist was at fault. The? Coroner remarked these ladies had come for-

ward in consequence of what they saw in the papers and it would have been better if, instead of communicating with the interested parties, they had gone to the Coroner direct. Then there would be no suggestion that the evidence was not quite disinterested. The verdict was that deceased died from injuries as the' result of being knockflown by a car driven by Leo Joseph Smith.

UNEMPLOYED CARPENTERS

WELLINGTON, May 6.

A statement is made that there are between four and five hundred unemployed carpenters in Wellington at present, due to the completion of several large buildings and to the arrival in the city of a number of tradesmen from as far afield as Sydney.

SCOTS COLLEGE

WELLINGTON, May 6

From thirty applicants, J. R. Sutcliffe 8.5. C., first assistant’at Wellington Boys’ College, has been appointed Principal of Scots College. THE MISSING POUND. FOXTOON, May 6. Mrs A. T. Harper and family have been located in Wellington.