LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1918, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

A recent Gazette contains an amending regulations providing that every solicitor who makes a default for the period of one month in causing his trust account for any year to he audited shall be liable to a lino of not less than £SO and not more than £IOO. At the Magistrate’s Court- this morning, Mr .). K, Wilson, .SAT., heard the action, W. Holley (Mr Wells) v. P. Stephens (Mr Sellers) a claim for £7 tor work done, and repairs to skates. Alter hearing evidence, judgment was g‘\vou lor plaintiff for £5-10/- with costs £3/2/0.

Suitable material was procured lor making locally the soldiers’ handkerchiefs for tile Xmas gift parcels which have just been sent forward. The ladies ot Ritnu, Woodstock, Kanieri, and Hokitika who undertook the “making up” of the handkerchiefs are cordially thanked by the Lady Liverpool League also the scholars of the South Spit School who alone were responsible for making about: 70--a very creditable performance.

At Wellington last week an important judgment, which lias been awaiteu with great interest, was delivered by the Supreme Court in tho ease of Lieutenant Russell Morris for a declaratory judgment defining the status of Territorial officers joining the Expeditionary Forces. The Court stated it was of opinion that the five questions contained in the originating summons should be answered as follows:—‘A person who is a Commissioned officer in the Defence Forces and becomes a member of the Expeditionary Force has no legal right, to any command carrying commissioned rank in the said Expeditionary Force, whether he beenme a member thereof voluntarily or by being called up under the Military Service Act, and ho is obliged to accept any position to which he is assigned.’