DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

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SWIMMING. AUCKLAND. Dec. 23

At the Waitemata Club’.- Carnival at the Tepid Baths A. E. Baird succeeded im establishing a New Zealand record of 11 min. -I!) 2-1 sec. for tile halfmile. The previous record was 12.1 1-1 held hy V. E. Cnniiiold. Miss Hilda Janie- (ex-amateur champion of Great Britain, who is now swimming instructress on the .steamer (’;irintllia> gave the best display of plain and fancy swimming ever seen in Auckland. THEFT OF TROPHIES. WELLINGTON. December 22. Six silver cups of a total value of about L‘7l were .stolen from the Wellesley Club last night. The police think that the thief hid in the building before it was locekd up. SUPREME COURT. AUCKLAND, Dec. 23. At the Supreme Court. Clifford Nelson Double was sentenced to three veals’ hard laltour for breaking, enlering. theft, arson, forgery, and uttering. and was declared an habitual criminal. William Knox, alias Johnston, alias Vereiiv, for breaking, entering and ■helt. convicted fourteen times in the hist four years was sentenced to one voar’s imprisonment, and declared all l>itmil criminal. AN ENFORCED PASSAGE. WELLINGTON. Dec. 23. A hospital patient was taken aboard he Waliine this morning for passage to Lyttelton. The steamer was filled • itli passengers for the daylight trip iikl sailed with such punctuality that ..ho ambulance driver and assistant vho were seeing to the patient’s coni-

i.rt were carried away. Another drivr had to 1,0 sent to ret urn the nilibiiai>< c to Ihe huspital. .1 Ad’ll 1C ELATION EXAMINATIONS. WELLINGTON. December 23. The matriculation examinations were old a week later this year and the remits will he correspondingly Into in aplearing. Ilie University authorities hi not anticipate they will he ready adore the 20th January.

• GAZETTE ’’ NOTICES. WELLINGTON. December 23. A Gazette contains regulations gov- ■ .ruing amendments in the claxsilien;ion and rates of pay ol employees in the locomolive. maintenance and signals classes, operative as I mill 13th October. 11)21. Regulations have also been gazetted authorizing the investment in securities under the Public Revenues Act of any moneys of the Samoan Estates Account not immediately required for other purposes. Regulations under the Masseurs Registration Act. 1020. the Nurses’ and Mnlwives’ Registration Act. 1021. also the Post and delegraph Department. Act. 1018. are gazetted to-day. An Order-iii-Couneil prohibiting the importation ol wheat and flour, as telemi phed yesterday, va- Gazetted today. Regulations governing the manner in taking the vole- of producers lor the ‘lection of members to the Honey Control Board were also gazetted. MOTOR LORRY EATALfTY. BLENHEIM. Dee. 23. Frederick Laitgloh Donkin. 11. mar--ied. wa- killed at noon yesterday through a motor lorry miming hack >ver the edge of the read elevation near Picton. The vehicle fell 2d feel into a gully. The driver was pinned beneath and wa- not discovered till bite in i lie aftcrueoii. w hen he wa•|liitc dead. Deceased wa.- an ex-Major if the Royal Field Artillery. and served in the South African and Great War. He was a settler at Erin's Ilillersdcn. His 'wife and a son aged II are in England. INQUIRY INTO SHUNTER’S DEATH PALMERSTON X., Dec. 23. At it foruiipr's inquiry into tin* ti rcumstancfs of life death of Douglas Norman I’ve, a shunter at Palmerston North, who died in the hospital following injuries received in tho accident at the local railway yards evidence was given that deceased was taking numbers of stationary waggons. At the time a strong wind was blowing and the yards were very dusty.

leceased stepped hack to avoid a swirl f dust and was struck hy a moving

waggon on the next line. He was thi-own to the ground and was dragged along until the truck stopped by skidding on a bard object in deceased’s pocket. The deceased, according to the medical evidence, suffered internal injuries. Death was dm* t > shock and extensive bruising of the bowels, resulting in paralysis. A railway witness said that on dusty

lays the yard was usually hosed lowu, but that was not done on the lay of the accident. In witness’s million the yard should be sprayed

with oilMr Vance, for the Department, said that shunters in oilier parts objected to spraying with oil liecau.se it made the yards slippery and dangerous. Ill'returning a verdict in accordance with tile medical testimony, the Coroner said the fatality was purely accidental, hut lie trusted the Department would note what had Iteen said about the dust nuisance. SATURATED WITH LOTTERIES A MAGISTRATE'S COMMENT. AUCKLAND. Dec. 23. At the Police Court Joseph Kilgour pleadyd guilty to the disposing of two tickets ill a lottery on the New Zealand Cup, which was started in S.'duev. Kilgour had a book of tickets sent him and sold some of them. Air Poynton, S.M. : This country is simple saturated with lotteiies. 1 received two books myself some time ago and l promptly destroyed them. T am satisfied the defendant had been the dupe of the promoters. He will he ordered to pay costs.