Fall From Cart.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1941, Page 4

Fall From Cart.

Mr Robert Wylie McMaster, aged 68 years. River Road, Masterton, fell off his cart in Colombo Road yesterday afternoon and was admitted to Masterton Hospital, with head.injuries. On enquiring this morning it. was learn that his condition was satisfactory. Maori Boy Fatally Injured. A Maori boy named Samuel Grey, aged 16, suffered a fatal injury when he slipped and fell when carrying a shotgun at the Wairau pa (Marlborough) yesterday. The gun discharged and caused a wound in the groin. The boy was operated upon in hospital but did not recover. Film Display. 1 There was a moderate attendance of the public at the Opera House last night to view a special screening' of films, showing how Britain was fighting the war on the home' front. Mr H. H. Newton, who spoke during the interval, said the films were being shown throughout the North Island by the Shell Co., as a contribution by the firm to the country’s war effort. Greetings From Russia. The president of the New Zealand ■lnternational Institute (the Hon. W. E. Barnard) has received the following message from the chairman of the U.S.S.R. Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (M. Vladimir Kemenov): “We greet the foundation of the New Zealand Society for Cultural Relations with the U.S.S.R. We are confident that the activities of your Society will promote still stronger unity between the peoples of New Zealand and the U.S.S.R. who have a common enemy, the enemy of all civilised mankind, barbarian Nazism.” Minesweeper Launched. “Forest giants have been felled and in the hands of skilled workmen have been fashioned and shaped into a canoe that is a great advance on the seven canoes of the Maori migration in which my intrepid forefathers faced the watery wastes. I express the hope that this ship will be as successful in her adventures as were those canoes which brought the Maoris to Aotearoa,” said the Member of the Executive Council representing the Native race, Mr Paikea. immediately following the launching of the minesweeper Manuka at Freeman's Bay, Auckland, yesterday. The Manuka is the third minesweeper to be launched in Auckland within a | month. The christening ceremony was performed by Mrs Paikea, who was wearing a rare kiwi mat worn only on ceremonial occasions