DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1931, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

MOTOR CYCLE CRASH. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, July o. Crashing into a lamp-post at the corner of Constable Street and Coromandel Street in the early hours of this morning, George Rliynd Duncan, of Chelsea Street, Miramar, a laundryman, was filing from a motor cycle and killed. Deceased was a single man, aged 26, and was employed at the Wellington Hospital for the past eleven years. He was on his way homeward when the accident occurred. On the corner opposite that at which the fatality took pace a motor-car was parlteu, and immediately after the crash a man came out of the car and picked up the injured man, whose skull was fractured. The ambulance removed him to the hospital, where it was found that he had succumbed. FOUND GAS POISONED. CHRISTCHURCH, July 6. Trevor T 5. Cargill, a clerk, employed by the Norwich Union Office, was found dead this morning in a- chair at his office with a gas tube close to the head. Cargill was a single man. He did not return home last night. BOOKIE FINED. DUNEDIN. July 6. John Erskine, charged with keeping a common gaming house, was fined £IOO. Police evidenced that defendant was Secretary of the Otago Sportsmen's Association and a considerable amount of | betting material, from various parts of the Dominion were found when the premises were raided.