DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1933, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

DEATH FROM COLLISION

(Per Press Association, Copyright),

INVERCARGILL, November 19

After lying unconscious in the hospital since Tuesday, Misg Nellie button, laundress, aged 43, died yesterday from head .injuries, received when ; she jell from her bicycle, as the insult, of a coUisioln with another cyclist.

ROUGH WEATHER

WELLINGTON, N°vember 29

Saturday afternoon's high northerly wind, which- was responsible for the Oriental Bay fatality/ also causied Vche (capsize iof two other craft at different parts of the harbour. A dinghy fitted with sail w,a s swamped and eapeized at York Bay, near Day Bay, and a yacht containing four Petone sea scouts and their scout master, overturned near Ngahauranga. In both cases the occupants were rescued, after being in the water for some time.

FIRE DAMAGE

ROTORUA, November 20,

Fires destroyed Ray Winger’s sawmill and the manager’s cottage last week.

On Tuesday last at 2.30 a.m, fire FroWo .out >at the manager's four* rpomed house, which was destroyed with the contents, the family being compelled to' make a hurried exit, On Saturday morning at the same hour, fire broke out at the mill, which, despite 1 the of a bucket brigade, was. destroyed- There w.as no insurance, and the estimated loss is £BOO.

A BAD RECORD

LONG LIST OF THEFTS

HAMILTON, November 20

An extract was brought to a close when Archibald,. Andrew Clmrle fi Scott, engineer and labourer, appeared at the Magistrate’s, Court on twenty charges, involving thefts* totalling £125, 95. The thefts included 1 a milk Vat, roast beef, silk 'underclothing, rabbit traps, choco-lates,-,a dish’, of dripping, 'suits of clothing, newspapers, bicycles, watches and tins qf,;,pep,per... v . ,

He pleaded,, guilty ~to . all of the charges:? statedl/by, the police to have, .given..every...assistance to the police. On each of six summary charges, the prisoner was sentenced to t hree months’ hard, labour, the; terms to be concurrent. i? On a further thirteen indictable charges,,he was remanded for (sentence in" the Supremo Court.