DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1926, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[BY TELEGRAM! —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] TOTE PERMITS. WELLINGTON, February 3. By an iimendmi'iit to the Gaining Act, a number of new permits to hold race meetings were created by Parliament. Among tbe places which henefitted when the allocation of these permits was made were Waimnrino and Motueka. but. so far. neither of these localities Inis its property in a condition fit to race on. In consequence, these two permits would have gone unused during the current season were they not lent to other clubs. The Ministcr-iii-f'harge of Racing Permits. Hon Air Bollard, and the President of the New Zealand Racing Conference. Sir George Clifford, have met in conference on the subject. To-day the Minister announced that it had been decided that the permits should be lent to the W averley and Nelson clubs. The .Minister is the final authority in those matters, hut a representative of the Racing C'luli Conference can act in an advisory capacity. VICE-REtLVL VISIT. HAMILTON, February 3. Tlio Governor-General inspected the Territorials at a big military camp at Ifopn 1 io)>n. near Ngnruawahin, this morning. The Vice-Regal party left later for Rotorua on a tour of the East Coast centres. ROTOR FA. February 3. The Governor-General and party arrived here by express this evening, and wore received by the Mayor, Councillors and officers of the Tourist Department. A civic reception takes place at tlio Government Gardens tomorrow. MOTOR MISHAP. HASTINGS, February 3. Mrs F. .). AlcKoowii. of Havelock North, with three children, and Mrs and Miss Hill, of Napier, who wore her visitors, was driving from Havelock to Hastings this afternoon when Mrs McKcnwn placed her fool inadvertently on ihe accelerator. The ear swerved into a deep drain at the side if the road. Leila, aged 14. sustained a fractured leg. The rest ol the party were cut and bruised. The oar was wrecked. AUSTRALIAN PIPE RAND. AUCKLAND. February I. The eleven Jremainiiig members nl the Australian Indies’ pipe hand deny the suggestion in the Sydney cablegram that they were having an unpleasant time in New Zealand. 'I lie manager. Mr Darwin, says if any of the seven returned girls had said anything to convey an impression that they had not been well treated by the people of New Zealand, there was no ‘ruth in it. The members, including the seven who bad gone, bad been most hospitably entertained. Their only grievance was against the Government officials.

INVERCARGILL REGATTA. INVERCARGILL. February 3. The Invercargill regatta was held in line weather on I lie Oreti River yesterday. The four oar race between loiithlnnd and Otago for the Edmond Challenge Shield, over a Iwo mile course was won by Southland. Tbs min' crew finished two lengths ahead. SHIP DELAYED. DUNEDIN. Feb. 3. When the Wanaka berthed at Port Chalmers last evening, to put an iniii red trimmer ashore, several bands went, ashore, and had not returned to the ship this morning. The vessel had not sailed for Lyttelton at 1 p.m., but hoped to get away some time today. CHIEF TEL TIG RA PH ENGINEER. WELLINGTON, Feb. 4. Mr E. A. Sbrimpton. Chief Tolerrimh Engineer, has tendered bis redgnatioii. this taking effect on .'list. March, though it is understood ho will probably cease active work before tlio end of the present month. Air Sbrimpton has been in the service of tlio Department for 42 years, and has occupied his present position ;ince 1918.

SUPREME COURT SENTENCES. TIMARU, February I. At the Supreme Court to-day, Stanley Gilbert Taylor was sentenced by fustico Adams to eighteen months hard labour for breaking, entering and theft. George Spencer Pearsc. who is now serving a term of three years' reformative treatment, was sentenced to a further term of three years for breaking, entering and theft, the sentence to tie concurrent with the present term. On a charge of arson, Pcarse, was sentenced to reformative treatment for five years, to take effect at the expiry of his present sentence. FIREMAN FINED £75. AUCKLAND, Felv •!. Robert Poole, a fireman on the Tofua, was fined seventy-five pounds for assisting three Chinamen unlawfully to land in New Zealand. The accused had the Chinese in a store room near the boiler, hut they were discovered by a ship’s engineer.