A Fatal Fall.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1942, Page 2

A Fatal Fall.

Yesterday morning John Andrew Turnbull Wilson, railway surfaceman, living at Shag Point, was riding on a railway trolley between Shag Point and Hillgrove when he fell off on to his head. He was taken to the Oamaru Hospital, where he died at 2 p.m. Overhanging Trees. “The co-operation of the public is sought in the removal of trees or shrubs overhanging the footpaths,” said Mr T. A. Russell, borough sanitary inspector this morning. Owing to the reduced lighting, Mr Russell observed, it was more than ever necessary to remove any overhanging trees. The borough, however, was not in a bad state as far as this matter was concerned. Beer at Farewell Parties. A warning that young men would not be permitted to take kegs of beer into halls in no-licence districts was issued in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, by Sub-Inspector D. J. Hewitt, when Terrence John Farrow, motor-mechanic, aged 18, was charged with taking liquor into a nolicence district without notifying the vendor. Defendant pleaded guilty and was fined £2 10s by Mr W. F. Stilwell. S.M. The police had been frequently troubled by this type of offence arising out cf farewell parties for men entering camp, stated the sub-inspector. Linen Flax Saved.

Through the efforts of voluntary workers from Gore large areas of linen flax which would otherwise have been lost have been saved for the war effort. The pupils of the ■ Gore High School and volunteers from the town have been conveyed to the country each day to pull by hand crops which cannot be machine-treated. Already over 20 acres have been saved. The owner of one crop of 33 acres has decided to hand the proceeds after the payment of bare expenses to the pullers’ organisation, which will donate the profit to patriotic funds.