DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1931, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

WAIRARAPA SMASH. (uoi)vtoossy SS9J.J Mj—ydrufiapi rtg) NEW PLYMOUTH, August 23. The sudden illness of the Chief Officer, Mr Gerald Sharpe, of the Westport Coal Company’s steamer Canopus, bound from ’Auckland t° Westport, was notified to the company by v reless, and the vessel was immediately diverted to New Plymouth. Sharpe was hurried to the hospital at 6.45 on Saturday night, and was operated on for an internal complaint. His condition tonight is serious. SLEEPER SUFFOCATED. AUCKLAND, August 23. To be- suffocated yin his sleep, when his bedroom was slowly filled with gag, was the fate of a draper’s assistant, Harold Clement Poole, aged 39, who was found dead this morning by his wife in their city flat. The' circumstances are particularly distressing. Poole slept in a room by himself, his wife and little daughter occupying another room. A small gas heater was burning in Poole s room when he went to prepare supper for his family last evening. On going to the kitchen, Poole that the gas stove would not light, the gas having gone out. He therefore restored the flow by inserting _ the coin in the meter. In the meantime, the heater in his bedroom had apparently gone out, unnoticed by Poole. He evidently then retired, ~ forgetting that the heater had not been turned off.

PRICE OF BUTTER. WELLINGTON, August 24. The local wholesale price of butter lias been reduced by one penny per pound wholesale to-day. Standard brands are now selling at Is 2d to Is 3d per pound. ’ ,