NEWS BREVITIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 50, 21 May 1927, Page 1

NEWS BREVITIES

Victorian Cabinet. —The members of Mr. E. J. Hogan’s Ministry were sworn in yesterday and the first meeting of Cabinet was held subsequently.

Comtesse de Janze Goes Free.—The Comtesse de Janze. who shot Mr. Humphry de Trafford and herslef in a Paris railway station, has been released. Mr. de Trafford refused to prosecute her.

Diphtheria Epidemic. —A report to the Tauranga Hospital Board on Friday stated that the diphtheria epidemic among children in the district was abating.

Avondale Streets.—lt is suggesetd that Taylor Street and Manukau Road in Avondale South be put down in concrete, but the carrying out of the work will depend upon the reception of loan proposals by the ratepayers.

Attempted Suicide Charge.— A man of 34 who was charged at the Police Court this morning with .attempting suicide was remanded for a week for medical observation. His name was ordered to be suppressed- in the meantime.

Trade Commission in New Zealand.—“ The office of the Trade Commissioner in New Zealand has been very valuable, and I hope the British Government will not abolish it amongst the small departments it proposes to eliminate on the score of economy,” remarked the Prime Minister yesterday.

Bridge Worker’s Accident. —Two further witnesses were called by the defence yesterday afternoon in the case in which Sydney Hamilton Hollis, blacksmith in the employ of the Public Works Department, claimed £847 damages as a result of a fall from a railw-ay bridge on the Stratford-Onga-rue line on April 16, 1926. After his ! counsel addressed the court, His Hon- | our Mr. Justice Herdman reserved hi* i decision.