STOP PRESS NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20253, 23 July 1937, Page 6

STOP PRESS NEWS

FALL DOWN STEPS. PENSIONER INJURED. A broken thigh was received by Mi* John Crawford, (70). an old age pensioner, of Te Awarrutu, when he afternoon. He was admitted to the reported to be satisfactory. PARALYSIS EPIDEMIC. WELLINGTON. Friday. In a review of the infantile paralysis epidemic to-day the aclingPrime Minister, the Hon. P. Fraser, states that 819 cases were notified to the end of June and there were 39 deaths, 4.8 per cent, of the cases reported. Notifications in the first half of July showed a very satisfactory reduction to 12. •v T i DAMAGES FOR WIDOW. JURY AWARDS £2927. WELLINGTON, Friday. A damages claim for £4027 3s 6d was brought in the Supreme Court by Mrs Lorraine Eva Mary Manning, of Lower Hutt, in connection with the death of her husband, who was struck by a falling hatch beam when loading butter into the Durham on March 3. Mr. Justice Reed was on the bench. The widow has one child, born six weeks after her husband’s death. She claimed £27 3s 6d special and £4OOO general damages. The jury awarded £2250 to the widow and £650 to the child and special damages brought the total to £2927 3s 6d. STOCK EXCHANGE. TRANSACTIONS IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, July 23. The following sales were recorded on the. Stock Exchange:— Bunds—3 per cent., 1948, £93 ss; 4 per cent, 1941, £102; 1957, £lO2 6s 9d; 1961, £lO3 6s 3d. Bank of New South Wales, £35 2s Gd, Associated News, 22s 10d],d; Coles, £5 11s; Broken Hill, 85s 6d; Electrolytic Zinc, preference, 60s.