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Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS. [BY TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 INDICATION OF DIVIDENDS. I ' NEWSPAPERS CHARGED. : AUCKLAND, Feb. 2-5 i The first prosecution under the pro- ' visions of the Gaining Act prohibiting the publication of statements from which the amount <if dividends on a horse race may he calculated, was heard in the Police Court to-day before Mr Poynton, S.M. William M orton, proprietor and publisher of a weekly paper, was charged with having published such a statement in connection with the Xmas meeting at Ellerslie. . Evidence showed that defendant placed against all horses, save one or two, figures from which it was contended dividends could he calculated. The defence \\*as that the figures were not or accurate, and that thus it was impossible to ascertain the amount of the dividend. The figures merely gave* the idea as to how the horses were hacked. Decision was reserved. A BODY FOUND.

WELLINGTON, Feb. 25. The lighthousekeeper at Pencarrow yesterday- noticed an object like a man s body floating off the Head and informed the police who found it was a nan s body, which was brought to the morgue. Identification is practically impossible owing to the advanced decomposition but it is thought to be the body of one of the victims of the Omaha wreck. CARPENTERS CEASE WORK. WELLINGTON, Feb. 25. In view of the employers’ determination to reduce the wages of carpenters from 3s to 2s 9d per hour, which reduction comes into force as from today. many men declined to accept work today and left the jobs where they were employed. SHIP LAID UP. AUCKLAND, Feh. 25. As an outcome of the waterside trouble, the Tofua will be paid off in the morning, involving the discharge of about 100 men.