DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1931, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

WORKER KILLED. IN BULLER GORGE. (By Telcyroph—Per Press Association) WESTPORT, March 3 Mr George Shorrock, a labourer, engaged in the Buller Gorge, was to-day killed by a fall of rock, near Hawk’s Crag. lie was a single man, 22 years og age. MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED. HASTINGS. March 2. A man named Trotter suffered a crushed chest when working on the demolition of a wrecked building in Hastings fo-dav. Trotter and another man were standing on the top of a brick wall, after unbolting a steel rafter, when the wall collapsed. Trotter’s mate jumped to the roof of an adjoining building. Trotter jumped to the ground and the wall fell on him. His condition late to-night was serious. SWIAIMrXG BATH TRAGEDY. INVERCARGILL, March 3. Albert Hunt, aged 17, a pupil of Southland Boys’ High School, had a seizure while bathing in the tepid baths this evening, and he died before In* could he removed from the water. He was unable to swim, and was making his way along the edge of the baths,' when tlie fatal seizure occurred. He was immediately removed from the water, and artificial resuscitation was applied, but without success. DOCTOR FOUND DEAD. AIAtSTERTOX. pdarch 3. Dr. Herbert Guy Moser, of Masterton, was found dead in his surgery late this afternoon. The deceased was 12 years of age and he had been in practice here for the past eleven years PRISONERS ESCAPE IN CAR. AUCKLAND, March 3. Two prisoners, Thomas Douglas Forsyth and Kenneth John Evans, both aged 23, escaped from Mount Eden Prison this afternoon. They were working with a gang of thirty in the quarry at a point where the guards view is limited by a small hill. The men clambered over a barbed wire fence and into flic road. Hliere they commandeered ail unoccupied motor car. They were last seen going in the direction of Ondiunga. There was no trace of them at a late hour. Forsyth was in for three and a lia|. years for the conversion of a motor ear, and Evans in lor three years for theft. SEAMEN VERSUS POLICE. TIM ARC, March 2.

81,iff senloiices were inflicted in tin Timarii .Magistrate’s Court to-day on three seamen and a labourer, by Mr I). Al’Lennan, Y.P., and Mr P. I>. I: note, -J. P. The case was the result ol an alf ray bttween the police and .-seamen of the Ruapehu outside the Shamrock Hotel ou 'Saturday evening, and the sentences were given as an indication to others ‘that such he.havious woidd not be tolerated in Timaru. The ofienders were:—Cornelius Patrick Murphy, seaman on the Ruapehu, a gen 25. drunk and disorderly and obstructing a constable, £.lO, in default oik month’s gaol. Reginal Francis Maine.... seaman and labourer of Nelson, aged ■l6, drunk and disorderly, and obstruction. £lO, in delault one month’s gao: on each charge. Ernest Dailey King, a labourer, aged 42. drunk- and disorderly, three months’ gaol without the option of a. line James Gordon, a .scallion aged 34, obstructing a constable. £lO. in default one month’s gaol.

XAFTER WEVTHKR COLD It KCONKTR COTTON TASK. NAPIER, March 4 The weather has taken a decided cold turn, which makes living conditions without tires in or out of doors quite unpleasant. Yesterday's rain fortunately stopped early, hut the conditions ruling are not promising. Heavy ram will cause considerable discomfort, bm ninety-eight teams of scoops are working on the river banks thrown down by the ’quake. All branches of the Post Offices are being accommodated in the Hastings -Street. School.

Although temporary premises are he. mg rushed up, four hundred men are reported unemployed. employers in .snitKo cases dismissing outsiders in favour of Napier men and consequently strangers are ill advised to come in.

The repairs of houses- and sewers etc. are proving a. greater task than anticipated. Many roofs are still showing gaiiing holes. **.v