NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3550, 12 August 1920, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

TH E R EPA RO A EST A T It‘.

AUCKL.»\ND, -\ugust 1.1

I A. report. on the conditions of «the R01):i1‘o:L Estate was fmnishe-(1 to the executive meeting of the Returned Soldiers’ Asso(-,i:ltiou 1:151‘ evening by the secretary, Mr. E. F. Andl'e\\'s,. A rc.~'.olu-

. . * ' - ; 1 'Ol 1:10;; was ca.l~rled concxoxnmng l1l(. Ht} 1 of Hll9. Lzln(!s Depzn-tmout in ullutfmg the sections without :1 ballo‘," and Sup" . ,- - ' ; ‘kl: 1 pofimg the “tt]m(](. of the ’\11( 1111 Assucintiou.

SEA MAN KIA]; L ED.

])UNI<JDI’N_; August 11

’ I\’[i,c.hael Stone, :1 sealml.n. wzls_killed [by falling down an nnolosed Jmtch on 1 ‘ - . . Itlw 51:n:1m('r Wrxxtmnu nu Pom. ChalY. [“nlers. , A

SERIOUS AC3C'J,D.E‘l\T'_!.‘4

MERCER, August 11

IV.Ir. G. B. Kay, of the firm of Sam. uel Vailc and Soils, met with an acci‘deut this nlol'.fiin<_r at Te I{.-iuwhut-_,. While he was drivirig ‘from Rzlngiriri the blinkers came ofi‘ his horse and it run a\\‘a.y. NIX‘. Kay’s c,omp;mion_ jumped out, and the gig nftm-wards collided with :1. loading bunk :1-1. To :K:l.llWhfl‘f:'l., staiibn, .thl'owing' Mr. Ray out on his head and causing Sf-)V;(1]'() injuries. He was cnnv(=_vr>d homo to Otalmhu. _

LOST IN THE SNOVV.

TIMARU, Aug. 11,

The search “party from Mount Nessiug searching for tlie rabbiter Boyd Thomson, missing sffice the 2nd inst, had a bad time on the. range, snow being up to three feet deep. There were also severe‘ frosts. No -h-ace was f.'olmd of the missing man.

QUICK WORK.

TIMARU, Aug. 31

A youth named Lyne, who was in trouble a few Weeks'ago, was arrésted again for theft of nlone'y from the pocket of a coat on a Waggon of which he was temporarily left in oha.rg?e. The theft, arrest, Inagisterial inquiriex and commitment for trial took_plaC-,e Within two hours. '

CHEESE FA CTORY BURNED,

VVOODVILLE, This day

About midnight the United Co~o»perative Dairy- Company’s McLean Street cheese factory was totally destroyed

by fire.