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DOMINION ITEMS.

INQUEST VERDICT. (Bg Telegraph —Per Press Association) CM 0 ISTCHURCH, -Marc h 11.. At tin? inquest on .Mrs Sydney Smith, tin. Coroner returned a revdiet that death was caused hy liaelnorrliage into the brain and shock, canseu by an acidental fal lout- of a lift at St. George's hospital. The incident was du L > to an unforeseen looseness in the gat<> lock attached to the outer lilt gate at the first floor preventing the cutoui from coining into operation. "It would appear.” the Coroner added "that it would he desirable to giv-o consideration to the omission of floating floors in lifts Used for the transit oif beds and the substituting cutouts operating on the inner doors.

REFORM CANDIDATE. WHANG ARE I, March 11. Mr William Jones, elected as Remember of the House of Representatives for Marsden in 1925, and defeated by Mr Murdoch in 1928 poll, has again been chosen by a delegates conference ns Reform candidate for th f . same seat at the next election. HIT HY TRAIN. CHR IjSTCHUROH. March 11. Andrew O’Connor, married, aged HO, was admitted to the hospital with severe injuries to the head and hip. He was driving a ear over Belfast road railway crossing, when ha was struck by a worker’s train at 7.40 cum. The oar was wrecked. NAFTER’S COMMISSION. NAPIER., March 11. To-day at Napier the Council formally handed over control of the City to the Commission appointed hy the Government. Mesrs .T. B. Barton S.M. and L. B. Campbell, Government Engineer. The proposal is that the Commission shall decide all matters on the merits their actions subsequently being confirmed hv the Council.

N A PIER S COMMISSI ON. NAPIER, -March 11. On taking over control, Mr Barton said Napier presented wonderful prospects to a town planner. The business people would soon he on an excellent wicket, but no building would be permitted till the land resumed its stability. As soon as that was reached the first £5,000 would be available from the Government. Air Campbell said what was wanted was a broad outlook, not a confusing mass of detail. MOTOR CRASH. TWO -MEN KILLED, DUNEDIN, March 11. John Eraser, married, Qamaru malinger for WriglA Stephenson and William Cooper, married, a taxi proprietor of Mosgiel, were killed in a.motor accident at Clarendon, near Milton, earjv this morning,

Two other occupants of the cor, Charles Harry Leith and Cyril Haylett escaped serious injury. The car was coming through to Dunedin from Pembroke, apparently skidding in loose shingle and sheering across into a telegraph pole. Leith was driving,

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Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1931, Page 5

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427

DOMINION ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1931, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1931, Page 5

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