DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

A MILK EXPERIMENT.

[By Telegraph, Per Press Association.] GISBORNE, Sept. 2. A pint of milk daily to be supplied to over 100 pupils of Jerusalem Native School, will comprise the first experiment of the kind in New Zealand. The pupils will milk the cows on school days, and be weighed monthly by Dr Turbott (Medical Officer of Health). The first weighing takes place next. week. . The purt pose is to ascertain the nourishing benefits received, CHILD’S NARROW ESCAPE. AUCKLAND, Sept. 2. After being at least seven minutes under water, a child named Marion Mitchell, aged six, was rescued from under a wharf at Waiwera and after ninety minutes work by two men she was restored to consciousness. The child fell in when playing, and the men were summoned by another little girl. They could see nothing till one detected a pink hat floating on the surface ' and the child’s face down beneath it. REFLECTORS FOR BICYCLES). WELLINGTON, Sept, 2, At a meeting of tho Wellington Automobile Club, a letter was received from the Town Clerk stating the Commissioner of Transport had informed nim that legislation will be introduced this session requiring, bicycles to be equipped with red rear reflectors similar to those on motor cars. RUN INTO BY CAR. GIRL KILLED. NAPIER, lug. 31. Ada Smales,. aged eighteen, daughter of Mr. George Smales, of .the railway staff at Waipukurau, was fatally injured when run into by a motorcar on tbe main road between Waipukurau and Waipawa this afternoon. Deceased was walking with , a girl friend, when a car driven by J. Timu, of Te Hauke, coming round the corner and overtaking 'them, startlted the. girls, ,wl<» jumped towards opposite sides of the road. Miss Smales stepped . practically in ■ front of the car and the driver was unable to pull up. She was picked up unconscious and died on the way to hospital.

BOARDER ROBBED,

WAIPUKURAU, Sept. 2,

This morning a boarder named Walton at. the Tavistock Hotel, was aroused from sleep to find a man in his bedroom in the act of lifting his gold watch. Walton leaped out of bed and chased the intruder along the passage, but the man disappeared down the firo escape, A later investigation revealed another boarder, named Plensbed, had £6 taken from a wallet left in a coat in his bedroom.

THROWN FROM) HORSE. WAIPUKURAU, Sept. 2

Jack Smith, aged 18 years, a son of the local postmaster, was thrown bodily from a horse in the main street this morning, sustaining a lacerated hand, shock and abrasions. He was hospitalled. The animal damaged a car in the course of its career and finally stopped on a footpath.