DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1932, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

FIERCE BLAZE.

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DUNEDIN, November'l6

So swift was the destruction by fire of an old wooden seven-roomed house near Outram yesterday afternoon that only three of eleven - Chinese working in a nearby market garden were able to save their personal property.

One Chinese retrieved £7B. in notes from the blaze. The fire started in a wash-house and with a strong wind the place was gutted in ten lninutes

BROTHERS DROWNED

NELSON, November . 15.

In regard to the drowning! in tilt* Takaka River, sons of Mr J. Hume, Takalca it is learned that the boys, in company. with a companion,, were bird-nesting and attempted to cross the river at the old ford, where the water was swift. Their companion was the only eye-witness. Seeing that the brothers were in trouble he went for assistance. The bodies were found the following day, one near the lord and the other three miles down the river.

POSITION OF MAORIS

CHPJSTCHXTRCH, November 17. A report on Maori mission work was presented to Canterbury Methodist Synod to-day. It stated, the position k very grave in many Maori villages, for faced with -a return to rough bush foods, particularly now that birds and fish are comparatively > .scarce, is [seriously .affecting their health especial 1v- of the children. MAN DROWNED. AUCKLAND, November 17.

Edwml E. Grimwfde, Go, managing director of a. city firm, was seen to diisnwenr while having his customary bathe off Tak-spuna. beach this moroThe police are lagging for the body.