VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1921, Page 3

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

. .... -iti.noi!Ann—run mess association] WHARF LABOURER KILLED. DUNEDIN, July 5. Edwin John Knox, while working at the oversea steamer Port Napier, at Port Chalmers yesterday evening, sustained fatal injuries to bis bead through a carcase of frozen mutton falling from a sling. COURT OF APPEAL. WELLINGTON, July I. The Court of Appeal was occupied this morning hearing an argument in case stated by the Commissioner of Taxes. The case arose out of a claim by Ward and Coy., Ltd., brewers of Christchurch, that the sum of £2.123/ 3/11 expended hv the Company in fighting the 1919 licensing poll, should be exempt from income tax. The Coy based the- claim to the exemption on the ground that the expenditure was a legitimate and necessary expenditure to protect the Coy’s revenue and enable it to continue its business, and that the expenditure was exclusively inclined in tlie production of aeeessahle Income, the subject of assessment.

At the hearing this morning. Mr Blair and with him Air Cook, appeared for the Coy., and Mr W. C. MacGregor. K. 0.. Solicitor-General for the Commissioner of Taxes. Mr Blair for Ward and Co.'. Ltd. contended that the expenditure was necessary to the point of view of the liquor party before 11 ’>• public. The exrenditurc was incurred for the purpose of ■•'■spring the life of tbc Cov. Tt v.-as ■not. be said, vin 't' l expenditure. A••gi’inent is proceeding. SEARCHED IN VAIN. AUCKLAND. July 5. The Maliono found no trace of i’ Cnnastota though she went to the northward of the usual course to search. The officers hold out no hope of the vessel being still afloat. A patch of discoloured water which was thou ■’ might he due to oil. was sighted. In i on close examination revealed no trace of naphtha. L was believed to be due to masses of rainwater lying on top of salt water. ,

On Saturday a. violent gale, from the north struck the vessel amidships and she shipped many -eas. Everything having to he battened down. At midip *' ;< huge sea smashed aboard hrnadsc'c on. the teak railing on the navigation bridge, forty fret above the water level, bending the iron sfaundcliimis. Tim gale moderated on Sunday.