STOP PRESS NEWS
RUAPEHU TRAGEDY. SEARCH PARTY MISSING. ROUGH CONDITIONS PROBABLE. WELLINGTON, Thursday. A search party of 20 which left the Chateau Tongariro at 2 o'clock this morning to attempt to rescue tho body of Mr J. A. Gordon from the crater lake had not been heard of up till 1.30 to-day. The Chateau reported then that conditions were calm but it was possible that the party would have to make the return Journey by a different route owing to probable rough conditions in the vicinity of Ruapehu. SOUTH CANTERBURY RACES. Craigmore steeples: 1 Pahu, 1, 6 Velvet, 2; 3 Monastic, 3. All started. LADIES' GOLF. ROTORUA TOURNAMENT. ROTORUA, Thursday. The Rotorua Golf Club’s tournament was concluded to-day. In the championship Mrs Jacobren (Auckland) beat Miss M. Stevens (North Shore), 2 and 1. In the Arikikapakapa Cup Mrs McDonald (Te Awarnutu) beat Mrs Hutchinson (Gisborne), 4 and 2. AWARD QUASHED. PALMERSTON N., Thursday. On the ground that the jury's award of £2500 general damages to Mrs Edith Matilda Hodgson, of Whakaronga against the Farmers* Meat Company, in consideration of an accident, was excessive, His Honour, Mr Justice Ostler vacated the Judgment and ordered a pew trial.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19891, 21 May 1936, Page 8
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196STOP PRESS NEWS Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19891, 21 May 1936, Page 8
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