LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1932, Page 6

LATE LOCALS.

The Gael is in the roadstead and was due to arrive at 3.30 p.ni.

During the Tennis Club’s dance at All Saints’ Hall on Friday evening, Miss Rene Ward of Invercargill will give a novelty tap dance.

A piece of offal dropped on to the feeder wires by a bird cause a complete power failure on the Springfield feeder system, according to a report made to the last meeting of the .Malvern Electric Power Board by the engineer-secretary, Mr H. IT. Barrs.

The apparatus in the slot telephone box at Church Corner, Rieearton, was removed by thieves during the weekend and has not so far been recovered. The haul of the miscreants must have been a small one, as the box had been cleared on Friday.

About o o’clock on .Monday evening mivs the “Westport News”, a young boy named Xoilson full off the Crane Wharf into the Boiler River. *fr Davies, the Red Cross ambulance re"resentative, was fortunately passing the locality at the time and seeing the lad clinging to a pile underneath the wharf, dragged him out to safety in an exhausted state.

Users of heavy lorries will find mure than passing interest in a judgment of .Mr J. L. Stout in the Palmerston North .Magistrate’s Court on a claim for damages caused by a collision between a petrol wagon weighing seven tons, and a Baby Austin, weighing scarcely more than seven hundredweight. The evidence did not disclose negligence on the part of either driver, hut the Mgistrate hold that the drivei- of the petrol wagon had taken a.risk in sending a cumbersome vehicle over a road which, hv reason of its dangerous nature, compelled a driver to use the centre of the road instead of keeping to his left. The accident hap'-ened at a sharp corner. The lorry bonnet was well over the left side, hut the tail was across the road, leaving no room for the Austin to pass. Tho lorry driver admitted that he did not travel on the left as required by the motor regulations, as it would have been unsafe with such a heavy vehicle.