TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1922, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ill I ELfci.il Al’il — VEH CRESS ASaOOIA i ui.v FARMERS AND UNITY. WELLINGTON, July 24. At a meeting of the Dominion Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, the President, Mr W. J. Poison, said they had received a request from the New Zealand Dairy Farmers Union for a conference with the General Farmers’ Union, with the object of arranging for the affiliation of the • two bodies. A resolution hn,d been/ passed by the Dairy Farmers’ Union, he said, stating they declined to join with anv political party, like the ‘ f New Zealand Farmers’ Party 1 . The Union was entirely non party. President Poison said he very much welcomed thi s attitude. The Dairy Farmers’ Union went into committee to consider the question.

BURGLARS GET BIG HAUL. AUCKLAND, July 24. Messrs Wallace and Company’s store at Pokeno was entered by burglars on Thursday night. The safe was removed, and £230 in cash and cheques, £SO in debentures, £IOO in jewellery, 50 pounds of tobacco,- a quantity of cigarettes and several pairs of hoots —vwere stolen. It is understood the burglars used a two-wheeled truck used in the store to remove the safe to a motor car. The safe was found next morning on the roadside. Residents in the neighbourhood heard four shots during the night, apparently the work of the burglars in opening the safe, which wa R open and damaged. From traces -it is apparent that the burglars got off the road in removing the booty-, for a ca.r was stuck in the mud near where the safe was recovered. The occupants of the car obtained the assistance of a farmer to pull them out of the mud at six o’clock in the morning. OTHER AUCKLAND ROBBERIES. AUCKLAND, July 24. The residence of Charles Jarden at New Lynn was entered last night and £26 stolen. AUCKLAND, July 24. Leonard TozeT and Herbert Alfred Wrjtts were committed for sentence for theft of £33 16s 6d from a drainage contracting job. intended as wages. . , Wafjts was further charged witn breaking and entering a warehouse, and stealing goods valued at £2O. Ho pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence.

INDECENT LETTERS. AUCKLAND, Joy 24. Two charges of sending indecent documents through the post were admitted by Thomas Bernard Brickland, aged 24, a new arrival in the Dominion. The letters were sent to women.

The Magistrate said that, in view of the accused’s previous good character, he would be better at work than in gaol. He fined Brickland £SO on the first charge or in default three monthly '**' and order him to come up for sentence on ~ie second in two years’ time. He was allowed a month to pay the fine. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. AUCKLAND, July 24. At the police court, George William Phillips pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial on a charge of failing to account for £2OO given by a woman a sa loan to a taxi driver. THEFTS FROM SHTP. WELLINGTON, July 24. Two seamen of the Kaikoura,— George Harrison and William Davidson, were each sentenced to three months’ hard labour for theft of a quantity of cargo from the steamer. Four stewards on the Kaikoura. Griffiths James Hughes, Mark Monsey, Harold Edward Hyatt, and Edward Carson were each sentenced to a month’s hard labour for theft of table cloths front the ship,