DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1924, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

»Y TKt.KGItAI'II —I'ItKSS ASSN., COrYItICHT. KOI'I! VO IT lIS AI! It KSTKI). AUCKLAND, Sept. Hi. Knur youths, aged |fi. appeared at the Police Court, on a charge of breaking and entering with intent to commit. a crime, the others on charges of breaking and entering. All were remanded till Sept, llotli. The arrestwere a sc<|ticl to an incident in Durham St. last night. It is stated that a detective, with the proprietor of tea roams, concealed him.-'ll inside the premises, while another detective waited outside. After a few minutes four youths were surprised, three inside the building and one outside underneath a window. One youth was arrested after a struggle, hut tlie others got away. The suspects were arrested this mnraing. TI'O PI'HCn.ANKD. OlsriOKXK. Sc; tvinher 17. Negotiations for the purchase of the teg I’eliian. now at. Wellington, have

'' coca completed liy the (li.saorne Harbour Hoard for use in the new hari> >ur works. The o;tion over the vessel did not. ■: expire until (he middle of October, hut the Hoard decided to exercise its prie vdege. and the ve.se.sl has now been pur--1 chased. 1 The vessel is one hundred feet long v illi a beam of twenty-one feet. She i an he trimmed to draw less than seven feel of water. The Heaid's Australian plant, purt chased Inn the I'Vderal (Jovcrniueul last monlh. coin; rises three big steel Targes and a powerful dredge. This I plant is due to arrive in Hi-borne on October IS. With all the plant then in hand. - walk on the new harbour will coni--1 tm'iiee in earnest.