A FIREMAN'S DEATH

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10604, 1 June 1920, Page 6

A FIREMAN'S DEATH

INQ.UST OPENED AND ADJOURNED.

An inquest was held by Mr W. G>. Riddell yesterday into the? death uf Max Wapper, a fireman, whose body was found in the yard of Young's Private Hotel, on Saturday morning. l>r. J. i'. McEvedy stated that there, were abrasions upon the legs and* upon the right side of the forehead • and face. The interior of the skull showed extensive fracture extending from a superficial wound above the right eye back to the right ear and across to the left ear. Death was due to fracture of tie skull, caused by very considerable force, caused either by a blowi or a fall, but the fact that abra. sioiis were found upon the angle of th« jaw, the forehead, and the side of the. face pointed to the fact that the man's head had struck something. However, had the man fallen from a height and struck the edge of ths' roof of a shed in the yard the injuries might be accounted for.

The further hearing of evidence was adjourned to Wednesday at 4 p.m.

The sehoolgrounds committee of ths. Greater Wellington Town-Planning Association has set itself the task of trying to arouse greater public inter. ost in tho matter of the necessity for better schools and playgrounds in Wellington.' It is intended to carry out an organised campaign, with this end in view.

"A good Town-Planning Bill will mean the salvation of the country,*' states the annual report of the Greatei Wellington Town-Planning Association, ''for our towns are growing largei every day and developing in the old haphazard fashion. It' is strange that New Zealand should lag behind other countries when so much is to be gained by tho proper principles of town-plan-ning."

The Customs returns for Dunedin show that for the mouth just expired the net Customs receipts amounted to £96,029, which ia a record for this port.

Tho "National News" (London), m its issue of April 4th, »ay3: —.' Tho unusual step tho United States Government has been forced to take, whereby paper" costing more than 4d per lb is to bo admitted to tha U.S.A. free of tax, is but another aspect of the famine in paper tho world is experiencing to-day." Fourpence- per lb is the equivalent of A.'37 6s 8d per ton, which is about half tho price that Scandinavian paper is quoted for delivery at Swedish and Norwegian ports to-day. American buyers have made large purchases of newsprint in this market, and it is to avoid further Aggravating tho position that the United States Government has taken the almost unprecedented course of temporarily abolishing tho Customs duty.