DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CONSTABLE; CH \BGED. TIMA HU. Sept. IT. Constable George Duncan Fisher, watch-house keeper at the I imam Polo <• Station, was charged at the Magistrate's Court to-day. before Mr G. Mastic-. J.P.. with the theft of £lO, the property of John O'Donnell, otherwise known as Robert- O'Donnell. Fisher was further charged with committing forgery by making a false document purporting to he signed by A. O' Donnell to meet a receipt to a

lost of property taken from a prisoner for the sum of £7l Lis fid. Seuior-Segen lit Fahey asked lor a remand until Saturday, which was granted. Bad was allowed, sell in CIO) and two sureties of £.TO each or one of C 1(10.

BOVINE TC It ER( T I.OH IS. DCNEDIN. September |.l. In relereneo to the Palmerston North mes-ages re tubercular cases, a llenlth Department official stated that there was nothing to iustil'v such an alarming statement. A long series "I tests at Auckland revealed tuhereulosi- in milk onlv in *2 or :i cases. The lavoaraMe position ol l h.e Dominion was dm- lo the fact that cattle lived more in the open air there than in 't her places. There wa s no necessity to stall feed them. He added that Lhcre was very little tuberculosis in New Zealand, due to the bovine lvi>o of bacillus.

FUNERAL OF REV. DAWSON. WELLINGTON, September lit. Ihe remains ol the late Rev. John Dawson, general secretary of the Now Zealand Alliance wore cremated at Karon yesterday. The esteem, in which he wa- held was shown by the very large attendance' at the preliminary servile in ilie Methodist Church. Tarnanki Street, nlisiv the principal speaker- were Rev. Jane's Cocker. Mes-rs L. M. l-itt. M.R.. and Mr C. M. Luke. I he service was conducted by Rev. T. R. Richards of New Plymouth. I’residenl of the New Zealand Metlmdi-t Conference. All < hurdles were represented and many public men. including all Wellington members of Parliament were present.

MOTOR CYCLIST' INJURED. NELSON, September 1.3. A motor cyclist. Norman Scott, aged 17. the son of Mr W. Scott, i ollidcd with a dray in Vanguard Street lasi evening, -ustaiuiug grave injuries to his head, and also a broken leg. MOTOR VICTIMS. WELLINGTON. September IT. Reports from the hospital where the victims of the recent motor aeeidciit.- were conveyed are t<. the efleeL that the condition of the patients show- no improvement, and is still