DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1925, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

BT TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. CHARGE OF Til MKT. THAMES, dune 25. A married woman, with live children. whose name was ordered to ha suppressed was charged with opening a postil! mail hag and also abstracting a postal packet. 'The bag was what is known as an overflow one. and was left in accused’s shop for a, postman to* call later and finish his delivery. The woman broke the seals and took a parcel containing a garment. The postman's suspicion was aroused, and on the police taxing her the woman admitted the Act. She pleaded guilty and was committed to Auckland for sentence.

BOOSTING W KRI.J XG TO X. WELLINGTON. dune 25. The Chamber of Commerce voted £250 towards the printing of booklets re the Wellington District for distribution among the American licet.

Xl.ll lIT TRAINS URGED. WEEDING TON, dune 25. Tho’ Taranaki Chamber of Commerce has sent a letter to the railway authorities urging night trains lad ween New Plymouth. Napier and Wellington, to enable persons to transact business in one day instead of I hive as at present-. The idea is for i rains from Napier and New Plymouth to meet at Palmerston North and go on to Wellington as one. reversing the operation on (he return journey. This, it is pointed out, would also give terminal towns early trains to country stations and help I" meet motor competition.

SOUTH TARANAKI LAND. VALUATION REDUCED BY A THIRD. HA AVER A, .Tune 25. A suggestion that the best farming lands in South Taranaki are over valued bv as much as one third is contained in the substantial reductions admitted by the Government officers who recently made a special revaluation of four blocks near Normanby, comprising some of the, richest lands in Hawera County and aggregating nearly one thousand acres. The average reduction granted on the present unimproved value, vas over thirt.v-l'our per cent. When the last valuation was made in 1911) the total unimproved valuation of the 053 acres under notice was £51.595. but the new figures sot it down at C 33. (1(37.

A('EXT EX A RIA X" S DEATH. AUCKLAND. Tune 25 Obituary—Charles Langford, for many years a city tailor, just in his hundredth year. He arrived in New Zealand seventy-live years ago with a detachment of the Royal Engineers. A I’ll ISO.XER ESCAPES. NAPIER, J umy 25. Bertie Starkey who was io have been charged to-morrow with carnal kmm ledge and theft escaped from the Napier gaol this morning. HEAVY RAINS IN NORTH. WELLINGTON. Juno 25. Since early hist evening, Wellington has been enveloped in a dense fog, which presented a danger to navi •oi lion t. h I'ijiighout the night. The eon l inuoiis Looming ol the warning signal at the Heads indicated the state of affairs on the water, am! were so bad as to hold up the. Jerry steamer Mararoa. Iroin Lyttelton outside the Harbour entrance lor about two hours this morning. A part from the tog. th'-rc has been it fair amount of heavy rain. Other parts of the Dominion particularly in the north, are being seriondv ail'eeted, particularly in Poverty Hay and the Buy of Plenty districts. S me reports v. liieli were received at the weather bureau to-day were as follows: (The amounts ol raiulttll being for the twenty-four hour period preceding 9 a.ni. to-day): Maruuiiiko (about 50 miles north of Gisborne) 8 inches; Pakihiroa. (near Waipiro Bay) 0.78 inches; Waihi 3.90 inches; Rotorua .3.57 inches; Kahuktirai (91 miles north-east of Gisborne) 5 inches; 'Luma (Thames). FLOOD IN I‘OVERT Y BAY. GISBORNE. June 25, Heavy rains have fallen in the .Molu district, The river has risen fourteen feel at Motuliora, Hooding portions of the township. The Mol uliora-M.otu railway service is suspended. Heavy rain continues. FLOOD NEAR. ROTORUA. ROTOREA, June 25. Five indies of rain have fallen in this district. The Rnngitaiki river is in high Hood. The coastal road is blocked. A service car prociceding coastward was enclosed by waters between Tetcko and Whaktane.