DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1924, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[BY TEI/KGHAril —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] A FARAIER FINED. NELSON, Afarch G. Allan Palmer, a .shareholder and a supplier to the Walmea Dairy Co., pleaded guilty at the Magistrate's Court to defrauding the eoinuany of £lO Os by false pretences in unlawfully adding cream to a .sample of milk supplied ho the company. The accused stoic the key of the sample box and added cream to bis sample bottle. A watch was kept and accused was detected in the art at 1 o’clock in the morning. He confessed to a constable that lie had previously added cream, and forwarded a cheque for £.‘57 to the company to cover any loss suffered by it. The .Magistrate said that it was an extraordinary case and he fined the accused £2O. LETTER C ARRIER CHARRED WITH THEFT. OAMARU, March G. .Jonas Fiiicld, aged 20. a letter-car-rier was to-day remanded lor a week for theft and for detaining and opening postal packets on three charges. Furtliei charges are pending, bail being allowed. DAIRY CONTROL BOARD. AY ELLINGTON, March 7. Cabinet yesterday approved of the appointment of .1. !!. McEwan, as the member to icpicscnt the commercial interests on the Dairy Export Control Heard. The personnel of the Board is iiov complete.

HEAVY RAINFALL. WELLINGTON, March l! Very heavy rain 101 l in the city and suburbs and in the country to-day. The morning fall was particularly heavy. The streets and the low-lying portions of the city were flooded. Willis Street and Lniuhton Quay resembled streets in Venice minus the bridges. In some portions of the city the water forced the street blocks from their position. The country districts report a heavy rainfall. In the city and suburbs no damage was done hut all the open air functions had to be postponed, including the military carnival at Newtown Park, and the children’s festival.

A WINDOW SMASHER*. WELLINGTON. March 0. A powerfully built man this afternoon went almost the whole length of Kirkcaldie and Staines’s Brandon St. front, smashing the windows. Ito had an iron bar. with which lie did the damage. He had smashed nine of the windows before lie was caught by two members of the staff, lie was taken without resistance into the store and held there until the police arrived. RAILWAY REFORM. WELL! XOTOX. .March (>. Had it not been for the fact that negotiations between the vaiiuus sections of tile railway employees and the .Minister of Railways with reference to wages ami conditions of employment have -been occupying a considerable amount of the Minister’s time, and the latter's promised statement regarding the programme of railway construction is in some danger of. being delayed. Hon. .Mr Coates has indicated that ho is desirous of presenting Ids proposal for prosecuting railway works hi their order of urgency this month. Tills statement may lie ready at the end of this month. It is likely to bo a document of a very comprehensive nature showing in intimate detail, by means of graphs.' what has been the earning power of various sections ol railway throughout the country in the In-' 22 years.