TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1920, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(PEw CHESS ASSOCIATION. —OOPYHIUHI.I EXTENDING VACATION. WELLINGTON, Jan. 28. In order to minimise the risk of spreading influenza, the Wellington Education Board have decided to extend the summer vacation until February 10th. RIFLE BARRELS ARRIVING, j WELLINGTON, Jan. 28 j Colonel Collins, Executive Officer of the Dominion Rifle Association, has | been advised by the Defence Depart. ■ menb that five hundred new rifle bar--1 rels are being shipped by the Tainui 1 and another five hundred per week is promised by the makers. A BUSY FORGER. . AUCKLAND, Jan. 28. 1 At the police court, Frank Stokes, alias Tozer, pleaded guilty of nine charges of fraud and theft. The j charges included forgery of two cheques ‘ and uttering valueless cheques, also theft of dress material. , The evidence showed that in one instance accused signed the agreement to purchase a car for £S3Q, and gave a cheque for £SO as a deposit. In another instance he arranged the purchase of a farm ,and gave a cheque fer £SO as a deposit. -A third case was the purchase of the grocery business with another £SO deposit. He was committed for sentence.

MOTOR FIEND’S CRIME. AUCKLAND, Jan. 28. A motor accident, with fatal results occurred, at 'Penrose. Arthur John Horton, married, aged 48, was cycling when a motor-car travelling a great rate, overtook and ran him down. Although a witness to the accident beckoned to the driver of the car, he merely turned his head, and the car dashed on, leaving the victim on the roadway with concussion of the brain a fracture of the base of the skull, and other severe injuries to the head and face and internal bleeding. The car was not driven by its owner but bad been appropriated by two persons at present unknown, and was found deserted at Onehunga. iiorton was employed as greaser at the Westfield Freezing Works. He •died later in the hospital.

BACON SHORTAGE. WELLINGTON, Jan. 2. After a conference, to-day with representatives of the bacon industry, Mr Massey announced that the whole position had been fully disefissed and all industries’ representatives were dissatisfied with the present arrangement. The important fact was that if things go oil as at present there would soon be no pigs. The present number of pigs in the country is little over two hundred thousand, which is a decline of 113,000 since 1911.