Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1927. LOCAL AMD GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3728, 10 December 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1927. LOCAL AMD GENERAL.

'Sylvia Torringt.on, aged 13, who resided with her parents at 24 Edinburgh Terrace, Newtown, Wellington, and who disappeared from her home on the night of November 29, is still missing. At the inquest held in Shannon on Tuesday morning concerning (he death -of the late George Warren Satherley, a verdict was returned that deceased was accidentally hilled by the overturning of a dray, whereby lie had his neck broken. Last evening the usual weekly euchre tournament was conducted by the,' Labour Social Club in the Town Hall supper-room,' and resulted as follows: —First prize: Mrs. Fuller and Mr. Hobbs; second: Mrs. Cotter and Mr. Broad; third: Mrs. Pre'w and Mr. McLean. The Government Statistician’s figures disclose that the drink bill of New South !W(ales for the year ended June 30 last totalled £13,220,000, an increase of £589,000 over the previous year. The amount spent per head of population was £5 12s 7d. The medical superintendent reported at Thursday’s Palmerston Hospital Biard meeting that patients' remaining in the hospital at the end of November were 161, of which admissions to the isolation block had been 18, 14 from scarlet fever and four from diphtheria. In a letter to the Palmerston Hospital Board on Thursday, the superintendent brought attention to the fact that the hospital was handicapped through lack of suitable blood donors, and suggested that an appeal for donors should be made. i Yestorday another large transport lorry got into difficulties on the Wbiro’kino Road on the Levin side of the Bridge. It pulled off to allow another vehicle to pass when the side of the road gave way and it slid sideways into the swamp. The load was removed and the lorry righted without much difficulty. Helen Caines, aged 17, was found dead close to her parents’ homestead at Upokongaro, (Wanganui), yesterday, five miles up the River. She went out shooting with a pea rifle and the body was found by a fence indicating that the weapon caught in the wires and discharged. On making enquiries, we have been informed that Jack Shortt, who received serious injuries as a result of the explosion of a shell on the sandhills at the rear of Robinson’s Lakes, will be permanently blind, and his hands will lie seriously affected. His general health is slowly improving. The registration of the following nrivale company is reported bv the Mercantile Gazette: —A. Ross, Rough ."ml Co., Ltd., Fox toil, registe”Pd December 2nd, with a capital of £30,000 in £1 shares, of which F. B. Wood, of Christchurch, holds 4,000, A. Ross and G. Rough, of F./xi; 'i, 10,800 each, and D .R. Ogilvv 5,000. The objects are to 'carry on the business of planting, cultivating and milling New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax) and of the 1 reparation and sole of the fibre thereof.