DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH —l’EIl PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DISCHARGED SOLDIERS' REVALUATION BOARD. WELLINGTON. Sept. 7. Tile .Minister of Lands has appointed Mr F. W. Flanagan, Valuer-General, and Mr K, A. Rodger, of Tnpauui. Otago, as menthols of the Discharged Soldiers Dominion Revaluation Board under the amendment of last session. Mr Rodger is a farmer and was formerly a member of an Inquiry Board.

SMART CABLE REPAIRS. WEI.|UNGTOX. Sept. 7. The Pacific Cable Board’-- .steamer Iris took in a large quanLily ot cable from the post and Telegraph slice yesterday and proceeded to Cook Strait this morning Lo repair a break in number one eu'hle. The steamer had just i ettimed ■ from a smart repair job to the Wellington-Sydnoy cable which was discovered to be damaged two hundred miles west of Wellington. The work was completed in twenty hours which is considered very creditable, as the cable was picked up lour bundled fathoms .below the surface.

CHARGE OF THEFT. AUCKLAND, Sept. fi. A trustee’s dishonesty was revealed in the Police Court when Hubert- Stanlo\ Harrison, aged 30. was charged with .theft of £302 0s 7d. received by him on December 21st last, as trustee the estate of the late Thomas Purdy Cooke, on terms requiring him to account for the money. Accused pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence. , The police evidence was that accused said the amount was only a sum be bad converted to bis own use. Ilis wife was very ill at the time. He bad written te the beneficiaries that be bad taken the money, and would make restitution.

TO SUPPORT DAIRY PRODUCE BILL. PALMERSTON. Sept. 7. A meeting of the Executive of the Dairv Farmers’ Union ot tho Aieltinglon Province decided to support. the Dairy Produce Control Bill and urge that all dairy farmers to likewise.

110 Vi 1 DIN G -110 US E DESTROYED. DUNEDIN. Sept. A ten-roomed boarding bouse at Nugget Bay. owned J. 11. Mennell. was destroyed bv fire on Wednesday night. Two children were rescued in their night clothes with difficulty. Air Mennell acted as postmaster, and the telephone apparatus was destroyed. I be House was insured for £GS!) in the State Offite. but the furniture was not insured.

EVADING INCOME TAX. DUNEDIN, Sept. 7. Samuel Dunn, an ex-Publican, was lined a total of .£2OO. on charges of making a false return of income in respect to an hotel at Heriot. Ibe income shown on bis return for 2 years was £1.587. and lie tax paid £lls. whereas an investigation showed the actual income wa- £i.439 aod the tax payable £1.725. Defendant admitted tho offence, the explanation being that he was smarting under a sense of injustice through Ins license being lost in the boundary alterations, and he "anted to get square with the (lovernmeot.

SENTENCE FOR MANSLAUGHTER CHIUSTCHURCH. Sept. 7.

Iu sentencing J. T. Doherty to six months’ imprisonment and bard lab- nr on a charge of manslaughter (onnectetl with a fatal motor accident. Justice Reed said that the case was a bad one |f Doherty was an intelligent man. lie must have realised long ago that lie was temperamentally unfitted to drive a ear. Ho was glad to hear the statement by counsel for the defence that Doherty would never drive a car again. If there was to be any deterrent to persons who drove recklessly, imprisonment must be imposed and be would record it as a breach of duty to do otherwise. In the present case, m fixing the term at six months, he took into consideration the recommendation of t!,P J,,r: BOOKMAKER FINED. AUCKLAND, Soft. George Cawdran Weio, who mrde iKjts with a plain clothes constable, was fined £lO at the Police Court for publishing a double chart and £2O for being on a street for the purpose of betting.