DOMINION ITEMS.
[by TELKQHAPII —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND SENTENCES. AUCKLAND, December 1. At the Supreme Court. Thomas Willi on Hill, aged 2S, a T.LL patent, was scutetned to seven years’ reformative (L lention for an indecent assault on a male. Mr Justice Stiinger said that the Prisons Board would place the prisoner under the most suitable conditions. Robert Irwin Meaciem, on charges ol false pretences, involving £2211 and ill!' worth of goods, shortly after his release alter having been declared tin habitual criminal was sentenced to two years. EX-CONSTABLE ( OMMITTED FOR TRIAL. WELLINGTON. December 5.
An ex-pT~-e constable, named Andrew McOcmictt. pleaded guilty at the Magistrate’s Court to-day, to the theft oi £27 7s. moneys received by him in icspoet to applications for hrearms licenses. He was committed to the Supreme Court, for sentence, bail being I c!used. SHEEP STEALING CHARGE. NAPIER, December b. The ease in which Robert McGregor wax charged with the theft ol 115 sheep concluded at Ihe Police Court to-day. Accused pleaded not guilty, and was committed to tlie Supreme Court, hail being fixed, at £2OO and two .sureties of 100 each.
AUCTIONEERS ARRESTED. AUCKLAND, December G. Two Auckland auctioneers, Clarence Russell and Henry James Abralmm, carrying on business at the Central Auction Mart, Queen St., were arrested at their place of business yesterday b v Detective Knight, on a charge of conspiring to defraud. The accused were brought before Mr Poyiiton. S.M., in the Police Court and remanded on bail till Dow. 13th. DAIRY CONTROL BOARD ELECTIONS. VOTING PAPERS COMING IN. WELLINGTON, Dee. 0. The roll for the postal ballot for tlie election of nine members for the Dairy Export Control Board has liow licc-n closed, aiul it- shows that the total number of dairy suppliers is b;!,0!)8, of whom 33,.K1R are in the North Island and 19,500 in the South.
Voting papers have already commenced to come in and up to yesterday (Min had come from the South Island and .'i,3.‘)o from the North Isalnd.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1923, Page 1
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331DOMINION ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1923, Page 1
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