DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 October 1923, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[bv telegraph—per press association.] HORSE STEALING OX LARGE SCALD TAYO A!EX ARRESTED. TK AAA'AAIUTU. Oct. 8. During the lust month a large number of ho r.s -s have been imported missing from tlie I’ukekohc district and a police investigation has been proceeding. On Friday, Constables Doulo ami Rusliton followed a mob of horse.-, and proceeding .southward they went to Kikiki'ii. Kawn. Ngahape, and To Kuiti where they gained sufficient information to visit a busli farm at tho back of Otorolianga. They reached tlie faun late at night- on Friday, discovering tlie horses hidden in the bush. They guarded them till night and at daylight on Saturday they identified some as identical with those reported stolen. The owner of the farm had made av.ay and so. following clues.

the polite arrested a young man mined AlcGilvray at Pio Pio who was making for Taranaki.

At til roe o’clock on Sunday morning he police paid a surprise visit to the iiislt farm ami there arrested a man amed Ludwig who had returned out f hiding.

Fourteen horses now in the possession of the police at Te Awamutu have been identified as the property of different settlers in the Pukekohe district. The police are still following up in an endeavour to get the other horses missing. At the Court this morning the accused were remanded to Auckland till the Kith, of October when mtmerou; charges will be preferred against them

midland railway. CIIRISTCnrRCH, Oct. 8. The committee set up by the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce to investigate the trade conditions between Canterbury and the West Coast submitted ii., report at io-night's meeting of the Council of the Chamber. Summing up its findings, the committee said: "it appears that the railway schedule at present framed does not give the railway a fair chance of securing its proper share of the east-to-west traffic. It is not suggested that the department should carry goods at a loss, but it should not he necessary to do that in order to attract very much more traffic than is likely to be secured under the schedule now in force, or even under that likely to bo adopted when the line is taken over by i lie Railway Department. It would appear that; some allowance in the nature of a ‘‘back loading” rate, such as has been applied to other lines sitnilarlv situated, might he good business in order to get freight for tile 'east to west trip; while it is obvious from a study of the figures given ill the appendices of this report, that a revision of the charges—not necessarily entirely, or even principally, in the direction of reductions —could bo accomplished in such a manner as to make the railway a successful competitor with the steamers.