DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[BY TELECRAIMt —UEll TUUISS ASSOCIATION.] SLY DROGHERS FINED. CHRISTCHURCH. Juno 14. Robert Arthur Crouch and Mary Crouch, hoarding-house keepers, were ■ ninth’ charged with selling liquor without beim’’ licensed. Constable England gave evidence that Tib visited the house in company with two other men and purchased four bottles of beer. I brer bottles were consumed on the premises, and the third, produced, was opened tit Court and pronounced beer, -he defence was a denial of the pale, doleudants stating that the liquor was purchas'd bv them to celebrate the Onmaru bye-election. The Magistrate imposed a fine of £SO.

A GENEROUS GIFT. AUCKLAND. June 1L Hon Arthur Mvers lias donated £5900 towards the fund for the establishment of a Karitano Home, in Auckland uudei control of the Plunket Society.

ON LICENSED PREMISES. TIM ART, June It. After a farewell dinner tendered to Mr R. S. Forsyth at Grosvenor Hotel, many rumours were current that all the guests numbering about 80, would be prosecuted for being on licensed premises after hours, the function having lasted till 10 p.m. There proved no foundation, proceedings being taken only against the conveners, I 1 rank Dalton, McGovern and Cecil Maitland, who were convicted anil discharged for the technical offence.

FARMERS' REQUESTS. AUCKLAND, June 14. The Conference of the Pid.-incinl Farmers’ Union resolved to suppoit legislation to control the export of dairy produce, and emphatically urging the iGovernment of the necessity for legisla tion to enable farmers to form an. agricultural bank.

MANSLAUGHTER. TIMARU, June 14. At tlie Magistrate's Court to-day, Herbert Philip Luke was committed for trial on a charge- that he dul commit manslaughter by negligently driving a car by which Thomas Berry was killed on June Bth.