DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

UY TKt.F.GI’.AI'Ii—PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. TAXATION OX RACING. AUCKLAND, August 21. Commenting on the question of Government taxation on rating and trotting cliths. .Mr 11. R. Mackenzie, chairman of tile Otahuliu Trotting C'luh, at the annua! meeting of that hotly to-day, said: “As is the custom I must also touch on taxation, hut my views differ very much from some i f the speeches you have heard lately. It is entirely wrong to say the different (luhs are paying large sums to the Government in the way of taxation. It is the public who are paying, ’and dims are the medium of collection. We are just as well treated to-day as ever we were. All extra charges have been passed on. and I do not see what

we now have to take exception to as tilt- (iovernment lias removed tlio income tax lioni the clulis ami Wrought the «inning tax down to 1 per (.out. And rightly so. The (iovernment Ini' relieved elnhs from ineoiue tax as it !' from our profits we have to tiiak all our iin]Kiveiiients lor the pleasure el the citizens of this Dominion." .UTKhANI), A ut: ust 21. The City Council has do: ided to send M•• 1.. T. (Irifien. curator of the zoo. to South Africa. Hast Africa, Kgypt and prohahly India to purchase exhibits lor the zoo. tile expenditure amounting pro-1 nUy to C.'lOtJO. Mr CriU'en leaves to-niorrow.

S.S. WOOTON IN Tllorm.K. WKI.I.INCTON. Aupu«t 22. Tli<- -mall eonstnl steamer AVonton. I'll lons. wliirh leit l.yui'ltmi ;it six l'.lll. nil Tlllll.s'l.'lV |n|' Welliliptnn sip]i a IK"! tli<‘ Mooli Ll l a t .-.lie Inn! broken down mid tin* wireless from tin* Maori notified that she wns seven miles oir the heads. The I’elieim wns sent out to look lor her mid [in ked her up sometime nfter midnipht. A IM'XTIJAI! CASK. At'CKI.ANI). Auo. •J2. “This is n most extraordinary ease.” sail! Air limit. S.M. in drlivorinp reserved jiiilpnient in the Alnpistride's Court in respect of mi nuplieiitioii for u niniiitelinme order, ninth* by K1i7.11 belli .lime Itnrnes. apniitst her biisbjmd. Willi,‘ini diinies I)ix Itnrnes. Tin* Alnpistruto said thnt. in Anpii't. 1020. on nrranpi'liient wns mnde by whirli the defendant surrendered his wife to n Afnori. The Alnori pnid tln* defendniit C let), nntl ns die wife wns npreenhle. {lie defendniit left the house. Some (Invs Inter, lie returned and resumed eo-lin bit n t ion with bis wife, end the Alnori left. The unities t b*-ii wot t' AVelliniittin. where tbe t iniiplnfrill 11 1 subseo lieu t!y Olive birll* t* n linU'-eiiste cliild. ttbieli wns inken bv the Salvation Army. In October, 1!>22. the com[ilniimil left h**r bosbind. mid took possession ol the cliild. In Kebnuirv. 102.2. she obtnineil n 111:1 i 11 1"imin-** order npninst the Alnori. bid very little lintl b;.'*n nuid iliuler it. Spue t omohiinmit left her bus.'inml she leid liinilitniliei! herself nntl the child, hut -If is now in ill-henltli. ."id i- in ret eint of el'nritnl*h> :d I. The loisbnntl wns willing to nriedil'* n homo for colli obi inn ot. on ("uditioll tlmt she lies not keep the 'hilt!. The wemnn. however, hn- refused to port with I lie child. Air Hunt milled: "I nm ol opinion Hint the wife's relosnl is rcnsounblc. The husband bnrtered her iiwny tc the Alnori niul connived :*t her ndullcry. lie should lilt be cruel euom.di to separate her from the child of whom she is so fond. Her health i bad. and she cannot perform household duties.” Tin* defendant was ordered to pay inninlenmioe at the ml** ot .£1 ..s per v re k. I.AHOUATOIiY (H'I'ICKII. WKI.I.INCTON. AllO. 2:t 11. A. I’eid. lor ninny years in ehnrpe of the Apriinlt lira I Department’s Wnllnceville Inborntory is unlikely to return from Knlpmnl, where be is siiendliio a holidav and bis successor "ill need to lie appointed. Air |{eiil did Milne pood service with tile, veteriuarv division ilnriny the war on the Kastorn front. Mr ('. S. Al. I.lnpIsirk lilK the posit ion meantime. HOY’S ACCIDKNT. Nh'.l.Si IN, Aupu.-t 22. .1 aim Howland Talbot, ol Alotuekr aped 10. son ol Alajor lb AA . lalbot, wlieu retiii'ninp from a shell at the real ol' the bouse, ran into a two-horse miltivi'.tin- and sustained a binken rib, w liitli I i tii'trnti ll the liplu bmp. The nipbt was very dark, and the iilltiva|ni was not in the a ■■. i sti.lin'd plate. The iatienl is inopn .-sitip as well as inn I.e expeeted. I.ITTI.K critl, DKoWNKI). ACCKI.-AND. Anpiist 22. A sad fatality oeenried al I’apatnotoe ibis afternoon, when the inlaid ilanebler of Mr I’eat wa- found iliowned in :i horse tionph. ’I lie chilli who was eiplitci’n luontbs old. was lelt to I'.lav while its mother wa« | re] arinp tea. It was later missed, anil the body was found in the t roupb near the iiotise.