DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1924, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

HY TKPKfiltAPn— muss ASSN., COI’VRIGHT. TOTALISATUR HERMITS. SOAIE CONDITIONS OF ISSUE. cuItISTCFIUISCII .Dee. 17. Apparently there is a considerable amount of competition amongst the racing and trotting clubs of the Dominion for the additional totalisaior permits, authority for the issue of which the Minister of Internal Affairs was given in the (Laming Amendment Act of last session. Chatting with a representative of “The Press” on the railway station yesterday morning, the lion R. F. Pollard remarked that lie was not allowing the multiplicity ef applications to worry him much, lie was laying down, as a sort of “condition precedent” that, the clubs applying for totalisatiir permits must he prepared to embark on a certain amount of expenditure to provide essentials for the comfort and convenience of the public and by this means a certain amount of elimination was hoped to lie effected. In some instances the expenditure involved is in the region of £2001), for Mr Bollard is requiring that courses shall he railed, that proper accommodation is provided for jockeys in the shape of lockers, for instance, that proper totalisator houses are erected, and that, generally, all tilings necessary for the convenience of the public are provided. As for stands. Mr Pollard remarked. that their erection was a matter for each club to decide, as lie did not look upon them as being in the same category with the essentials mentioned above. THE WRIGHT CASE. ASH BURTON, December 1(1. It is reported that an appeal on certain points against the .Judges’decision the Supreme Court action, Florence .f. M. Morgan and others versus the trustees of the estate of the Into E. 0. Wright, lias been lodged by defendants. The hearing will he commenced, probably on March Kith. The case is one wherein breaches of trust are alleged. The defendants were Douglas George Wright (Winslowl. Harriet .Myra Wright (Ashburton), widow, the Hon. W. (Meso.potamia Station) farmer.

.Mr Justice Reed in his judgment made an order for enquiries regarding the prices paid for stock by D. G. Wright, also the interest paid by him to the trust estate.

Regarding the application to remove the trustees. Ids Honour said that neither Mr Wright nor the lion. W. Nosworthy was in a position to lookafter the estate properly, hilt nothing conveyed to his miiul the faintest impression of mala fules or fraud on their part. Nevertheless, they should apply to lie removed from the trusteeship, and have the estate transferred to the Public Trustee., S,\TAMAN APPEALS’. AUCKLAND "December 17. At the Police Court to-day Air F'inIny. his solicitor, asked thet the sentence passed on Nnlamnii he increased to one month and one day. thus giving iSalaman the light of appeal on the question of fact. Mr I’oyiiton, S..M. declined. He said that the mail had keen swindling the public. Mr Finlay then said he would exorcise his right of appealing on a question of law. Security for this appeal was iixed at £OS 15s. The effect i- that th<- warrant of ••inninitial to prison will he suspended tdl the New Year. BETTING CASUS. CHRISTCHURCH. December 17. At Hie Magistrate's Court this afternoon, Joseph Xnhra. an Assyrian hawker. was fined C 25 on a charge of loitering in Cathedral Square for purposes of helling, and £lO on each id" two charges of having made bets at totalisator odds It was alleged tlntf defendant was acting as agent for a bookmaker. William Henry Pullen was fined £IOO for osiog his tobacconist shop as a common gaming house.