DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1923, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[lit TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] PENSION OVERPAID. TIAIAKU, dime 20. In the .Magi t rate’s Court before Air Mosley. S.M.| the Commissioner of Pensions claimed from ail elderly woman. Mrs Alary O’Dnimgliue, £79 Ids. being double the amount of pension stated to lia.ve been overpaid to defendant as a'result of the woman having failed to disclose that she had £133 in the hank. The defendant was ab-ti charged with having fraudulently obtained a pension of great'.-:' amount lliau s:he was entitled to. Alter hearing the evidence the .Magistrate held a. breach of the Pensions Act wa.- commit toil. II • ordered the amount of pension overpaid to he refunded. The money was paid into Couvl. A criminal charge was then tornudly entered. hut was dismissed.

11 (d|i!l. ATTACKKI>. '' ( II UlSTCliriK'M, Juno 20. jl A ns:in ulm n-prt-st-• 1 1 i-.l himself lo '•c ;t surveyor, utlaeked a ;• itl on the roiic 1 I><■! v- 1 ■■ 11 SlurCy Ii links Mini >■ Harwood i n Monday. I In* pirl stains L ' that In* tin e.'ll ellei I her with a revolver. ' Weni'dini' lo Imr story, the mitn asked her to dismount from a pip she was c Iriviiyo, in order in 1:t• I>> linn In re'iitir his bicycle. Sim did so, and lie then asked her lo hold a tape measure lor him. The man enup;ht hold of her ! v I lie throat, and, pointing a small revolver at her head, llireateimd to ol.uv her brains one. She was absolntelv ill the merry of the nan, whom • lie described as of medium height, ■Mid between do and 10 years of am.'. When the eirl escaped from the man. •die pave an alarm, and a search was ' "aim. The police are reticent concerning the occurrence. COMI’AXY KKCR KTAItY. TiAXXKViUKK. dune ‘JO. Tl omits Henry dories, a well known l/ inm i like residenr, and who has been 'imminent in Hoiii'iiion I’uphy circles, voluntarily r 11 r: ■ mimed In (he poliie ••! Takapau Ui-day on a self accusal lon if failing in ru-cmuil for money cn- ' I'iist I to him Seer,-, ary of the ArI’ieiuie f nepanv. of uhii h he has been secret ary. lie will appear hi fore ihe ('mil l to-morrow. CilAliCK OK KOItoKRY. WKI.I.INCTOK, dune 2n. In the eliarp.es of forgery npainst f'oiill, the repal riation ollieer, ho v.as

to-day <• : Mi 11! i ! tod I'm' trial. Hail was | !Ix< ■l l a i tv. •> sureties nl J.'iOi). Till' further charges that tin* tv'citsed coii--pi rod v. it!i .Wefarilcll. who is now undergoing a sentence lor a similar of!'i'iiii‘, to ilolVaiiil ilio Government of various sums will ho proceeded wilh to-morrow. i'll? F.MAX 1.0? T. AI'CKI.AXI). Juno JO. Tim Arawa arrived hero from Lnnilun this mnniino. Pho reported that ■m Julie lltli, John Cooper, a fireman, was lost overheard during hoat drill in a choppy son. I.iiohells Wole iline,vn over .and iim Arawa ptii nitont and launched n lioal, hut no Iraio was seen uf I lie missing mall. KNciXKKirs ixjrrciKs. A (’CTCLA X I), June JO. The liner Arana, from l.ondon, rcports that later on the voyage, a Tier the loss of a fireman, George Crafghead, engineer, was struck on the head hv nn iron har. it is alleged hy a memher of the crow. Ilfs head was hadlv hrohen. lie was in hospital lill Ihe ai rival of the vessel to-day.