DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1923, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

fay TELEGRAM!—BEK CRESS ASSOCIATION.] WRONG USE OF LABEL. WELLINGTON, Sep. 14. John R. Brown, a publican, was fined £4O in tho Magistrate’s Court today for selling a bottle of gin labelled with a AVolfe’s schnapps label, as Wolfe’s schnapps. STOLEN RABI3ITSKIN3. INVERCARGILL, Sep. 14. At the Police Court.. James Gordon Hoskinc pleaded guilty to eighteen charges of breaking and entering Kirk’s warehouse and stealing rabbitskins of a total value of £1,310. The skins were mainly sold to Dunedin merchants. Hoskinc was committed to the Supremo Court for sentence.

THREE KINGS’ LIGHT

CHRISTCHURCH, Sep. 14

The Minister of Marine (the Hon G. J. Anderson) made a statement last

night in regard to the proposal to place wireless direction-finding equipment at the Three Kings instead of a lighthouse. The Minister said that the Government had been investigating tho matter of wireless direction-finding, and

last year, while on a trip, the Tutanekei had made experiments which had proved eminently successful. At some time in the future, he said, it would probably he necessary to equip lighthouses with the directing outfits, hut no more was going to lie done yet. The present intention was to erect a good light and fog signal at the Three Kings.

IOTECTION OF NATIVE BIRDS

DUNEDIN, Sept. 13.

The Hon (!. M. Thomson, M.L.C., is arm lining through. the Education

office for the distribution to the headmasters ol all schools in the district, of circulars find pamphlets prepared by the New Zealand Native Birds’ Protection Society, whose objects may be briefly summarised as the efficient protection of our native hints, a. ‘‘bird day” for our schools, and unity of control of wild life. Other members of the T.egislntivc Council are being asked to do .the same thing in their respective districts.