DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1932, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

V'- ; 101 YEARS OLD. A rGREYMOUTH RESIDENT. (Per Press Association— Copyright ) ■ GREYMOUTH, Sapt. 19. Thomas Brown celebrated his 101st. birthday yesterday at Greymouth Old Peoples Home, when the Hospital Board and friends tendered congratulations. ’ Brown is la native of Denmark, and arrived,’ on the Coast a,bout 70 years ago. He was mining at Welshmans, ’near Marsden for many years. OBITUARY. ■ ■ GISBORNEI, September 19. The death is announced of George Edward Barton, 61, Gisborne Borough engineer. He previously served for some years as a member of the Council and unsuccessfully stood for Parliament against the late Sir James; "Carroll. GIRL’S FATAL INJURIES. EKF/PAiHUNA, September 19. Betty Roach, aged-five years, stepdaughter 'of 'T. ‘Aston, 'employed on '"'Mrs Oadwalladeir’s farm at Nireaha, entered the cowshed yesterday morning and got caught in some shafting. She sustained a broken leg /and’ • arm, a (fractured skull and other injuries, and subsequently died in the Pahiatua ' hospital. landmark destroyed by fire, CHRISTCHURCH, September 19. A fire at Yatdhurst yesterday de-. strayed Kent (Lodge, a severfeenroomed hou.-'e a(nd an old landmark owned bv Edward Cross. "I lie loss iestimated at £SOOO including jewellery Valued (at £250, and tniich antique furpiturb. ' WILFUL DAMAGE TO BRIDGE, j TNVEiPCA'RG ILL, Sept. 19. ‘ The latest development in the Ohai minors’ strike loccurred this morning when a bridge crossing the Morlcy stream was damaged bv an explosion, preventing the transport, of coal from the Linton mine to the railway. The police inspector has left for the (scene.