DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

11V TKI.KRItAIMI—I'HKSK ASSN.. COl’VltlOllT. VOLCANO FRUIT l\R. .VGA Ui! I’ll OF ACTIVE TAU.M \RIMT. .May 22 The cob boo Ngaurulioe iruptel llii- morning at 7.10 o’clock. A column of Mack smoke two thousand loot high was seen rising from tie: < rater. It is described a< a great sight 'i he eiilbiirsl later appeared lo be subsiding. Snow was melted on tbe eastern side of tbe mountain.

RATES FOR SCHOOL TMRROVKMENTS SUGGESTED. WELLINGTON. Mac 22. A perennial source of trouble, especially in country districts is the provision of funds for all .small needs ol a school, such as coal, playground improvements, pictures on the walls and all aids to a pleasant environment for education, which are provided for by State Departmental grants for which

they prove, in innnv cases, quite inadequate. To avoid a cadging campaign by members of school rninmitlees the New Zealand Kdiiatioual Institute yesterday supported by -I! to 20 a repurl advocating optional local rating (tin* suggested rate being \d ill £f to be collected bv the most convenient local bedv with other rales.

AN INVALID RYE-LAW. - OAMAKU. May

Magistrate Randle gave judgment in the case brought to test the validity of the Municipal live-law prohibiting the milking of etas in a borough. II is Worship held that the matter was a proper one for control by a bve-law. on lb" ground of nuisance existent t.r probable. but the bve-law was invalid on the ground that it contained no declaration of a iniisaiuo. present or prospective, and left the reason tor its enactment to the imagination.

£IOO FOR ROOKMAKING. OA.MARU. May 22. Ernest Retry l>ll. tobacconist, was to-day lined £IOO for carrying on a common gaming bouse and convicted in a charge of hookmakiiig at the Alngistrato’s Court. Mr Bundle. S.AL. also fined William Henry Dickson, fruiterer £BO on a charge of keeping liquor for sale in a -‘no license” district and convicted him oil a charge of selling liquor. James Robertson, bootmaker, on a charge of aiding and assisting, keeping liquor and also olistructing the police, arising out of the same raid, decision was reserved.