DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1932, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

NORTHERN HOME LOST. BATTLE TO SAVE DWELLING (By Telegraph—Per Press A ssneia.tion) WHANG A RET, January 21. Late last week fire completely destroyed a six-roomed villa, occupied bv Mr and Mrs C. H. Vining, on Awaroa Creek. About 6.30 p.m. Mrs Vining went out to assist in the milking shed for a short time, leaving a fire in the kitchen ' range. She returned half an hour later to find the back of the premises in flames. Neighbours gave assistance and Mr Vining braved the smoke to enter a bedroom window and save bedclothes, the wireless set and other small things. The house, which was insured, was a total loss. No clothes or other inflammable material had been left in front of the stove, and it is presumed that the outbreak was caused by « spark,

PLAYGROUND ACCIDENTS. TA 111 APE, January 20. The third accident within five days occurred yesterday on the children s playground mi the Papnkai Road reserve, when a small boy named Ronald White, the son of Mr and Mrs W. J. White, M a lama. Road, lost his footimr on the steep slope on the western side of the reserve and went crashing down the hill, fracturing his arm. Last week a little girl named Love Olsen sustained concussion when struck 1) V n swiiijr. and two boys, loin and Jim Martin, were pulled out of the swimming hole when dangerously near drowning.