DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1925, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEOUAPH —PSEBB ASSN., COPYRIGHT. THEFTS FROM. SHIPS. AUCKLAND, September 11. Amos George Taylor, Henry Newell, and Harry Betts were charged at the Police Court with the tliett ot serge, stockings and other articles trom vat' ions vessels. 11 icy pleaded guilty. Thomas Langford was charged with receiving the serge, knowing it was stolen. All vi.re remanded lor sentence.

William Robert W'augli. for thoit ol goods, the property ot the New Zealand Shipping Co., was admitted to probation for two years.

CHINESE SLY-OROC. DUNEDIN, September 11. Yet another case under the Licensing Act was heard in the Magistrate’s Court at. .Milton to-day. when a Chinaman. Wah Lee pleaded not guilty, to keeping liquor for sale in a uo-lieense a re: 1 giving judgment, the Magistrate. Mr .I'/ 11. Dixon. 5.. M., said that the defendant had had a laii quantity <d whisky and the onus was on him to satisfy the Court that : l was nut for ■ ale. The delcmbliU e, . tied Di or £7 a week, and yet he paid about L'll in wages, lie had not satisfied him that the liquor was not tor sale. Deleml.tut would he convicted and on account id his apparently poor financial condition. would he lined do and costs ( Lo Risf. A lAI.SK AI.AHM. CHRISTCHURCH. September 11. The sight of a collin Moating down the Avon nmved a great shock to a mini her of men working on the riverfunk to-day. I lie box was retrieved hut it was some time, owing to qualms n the part of the discoverers, beloro it was opened, and found to he vacant.

C.T. ASSOCIATION' WEI.LI NOTON. September 11. At a special inceting ol the Commercial Travellers’ Association In iclehrate the ;illli anniversary of the. louuding of the Association. the Prime Minister, who attended hv invitation, reviewed the formation ol lie- Cnin.inereia I Travellers’ Association in the Dominion and enmtiieiided its work, lie complimented them on their rapid growth and paid a tribute to the magnificent undertakings carried out hv the Association during the war period, lie referred with pride to the Dominions trade, and struck an imperial note, lie spoke of the necessity of imperial co-operation and urged the necessity of imperial preference.

THE KENT'S C ARGO. AUCKLAND. September J2

Discharging of the damaged cargo from the steamer Kent is being carried on as speedily as possible. Only a. few hundred tons are left in the lower hold of No. 2 Hatch, where the lire occurred. (Rings were put oil yesterday to discharge cargo from Nos I. and 3 holds. Cargo in these holds was only damaged hv water. Where the lire was fiercest in No. 2 hold, the iron beams and deck plates were hadlv buckled. This iron work i- being sent ashore to he straightened and new plates are being fitted into the ships side where the holes were cut. and a. large amount of repair work is being done to the insulation and fittings in the hold. It is honed sufficient progress will have been made about the middle of next week to allow the Kent to take her departure for Wellington if the strike is settled. There are now some hundreds of tons of damaged cargo stocked in a shed on the shore. A salvage sale will he held.