DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

. CHILD KILLED. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) WAIPUKGR.au, Oct. 3. Wben.lbaeking a motor car from, a shed along a drive to the roadside this morning John K. Lee, resident engineer of Cehtra 1 Hawke’s Bay Power Board did not notice that his youngest son-, of two years had run run out behind the cal’. In consequence, the car passed over the child and apparently killed it instantly, as on arrival.,at the hospital only a few yards distant front the home, the doctors .’could only pronounce life extinct. • i ;! . . ATiLAKE COLERIDGE. CHRISTCHURCH. October 3. The level of Lake Coleridge remains steady ah 1658.9 and the inflow from Harper river at 200 cusecs. Reports from Harper watershed state that there is siiow’lyhig heavily on the mountains aiid only a good nor-west rain is required to bring the river up into a- torrent, APPEAL COURT. WELLINGTON, October 3. Tlie hearing of the appeal Christchurch City Council v. Attorney General was resumed by the Court of Appeal this morning.

The Court continued to examine the plans and relevant statutes and ordinances.

Mr O’Shea for appelant Corporation, said the land in dispute became a street by virtue of the Municipals Corporations Act, 1867, and ordinances of Canterbury Provincial Council in 1858, 1859, and 1864. The Cathedral Square ordinance passed by the Provincial Council in 1.872, affect any land which had become a street under the Municipal Corporations Act 1867. Section 4 of that ordinance gave the Superintendent of the Province power to clos e the highway then existing over portion of the land in dispute, but he did not do so, and the land has maintained the character of highway down to the present time.,