DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1926, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[UY TELEGRAPH PEP. PRESS ASSOCIATION.] MOONSHINERS CAUGHT AT TE KUITI. TE KUITI, February 13. j At the Police Court this morning : Alex. Greatbatch, Louis George Great-j batch and George Arthur Burling were charged with keeping liquor for sale and a plea of not guilty was entered in the first place, but after statements to the police had been produced the accused pleaded guilty. The police stated the men had been under observation for some time. Having received complaints on the day of the races the accused were watched and were seen to go to a bush carrying suitcases. A plain clothes eonstable followed them and fifteen bottles of liquor were found in a creek. A lonely whare in which the Greatbatchs lived, was searched and an amateur browing plant was found and a receipt for the manufacture of whisky was discovered. UNION .MEMBERSHIP LIMITED. WELLINGTON, Feb. 15. The memltership of the. Wellington Waterside Workers’ Union is to be limited to 1450, the employers and the union having agreed that that number is required to work the port on the average. Provision has been made to incorporate the limitation in the rules of the union. DAIRV CATTLE ELECTROCUTED. AUCKLAND, Feb. 15. The ‘‘Star's” Hamilton correspondent states that the. danger occasioned to human and animal life by the falling of high-tension electric lines was again exemplified when one of the wires passing through Mr K. W. Walter’s property at Lower Waitoa sno|>ped and fell among a valuable dairy herd. Four of the best animals were electrocuted, their bodies being cut practically in half, and but lor Lhe early intervention of Mr Walter's employees. several of the others would assuredly have been destroyed. As it is, his loss is heavy.

PRESENCE OF MIND. AUCKLAND, Feb. 15

Mr R. 8. Kalin, when cycling at - Paeron, came from behind a vehicle . travelling in the same direction, and i rode directly in the path of an ap- , pro,aching motor-ear. Realising that a head-on collision was imminent, and I with no chance of escape, h.e jumped off his bicycle and lay flat on the road- " way. s 'j'he driver of the ear l>y this time d had applied ltis brakes, and the car e passed right over Mr Kalin's prostrate form. Bystanders were amazed to see Mr Kaliu emerge with nothing worse II than a bruising. His bicycle was con- ” siderably damaged. DANGER TO NAVIGATION, n WELLINGTON. Feb. 15. The Secretary of the General Post , Office advises that the following navit gation warning was broadcasted from Melbourne radio station on February 11 14, at 10.35 p.m. t “Master Roocis reports striking subi- merged object at 5.,‘25 a.m.. February e 14, hit. 39cieg Omin south, long. 1 ICdcg. :- 29min. east, Wilson’s Promonotorv ,] hearing W.N.W. magnetic. three miles.” WELLINGTOX-OTAGO MATCH. 11 WELLINGTON. Feb. 15. The recent controversy regarding an t alleged unsporting incident during the i- closing staires of the Wellington-Otago i- Plunket Shield match at Dunedin was s brought to a final issue at a meeting of tho Management, Committee of the s Welington Cricket Association. Brice, captain of the team, furnished a report, which, stated that the conduct of I- tho team on and off the field was excino plary. Regarding the incident to which ( reference had been made, a misumlerc standing between two players occurred in the field through which a catch was dropped. It was merely a misnnder--11 standing, and had not affected the suls- ” sequent keenness of the players, Brice repudiated tho suggestion that the ine eident played the slightest part in v bringing about Wellington’s defeat. On r the run of play Otago proved the hetI tor team and thoroughly deserved the victory. 1 After a slight discussion, the report p was adopted and the matter was allowr ed to rest.

AUCKLAND JOY RIDERS. V AUCKLAND, Fell. Hi. s “1 do not see any reason why the names of jov riders ami persons who take motor cars should he suppresst ed.” said Mr J. W. Boynton, S.M., t at the Police Court to-day. in reply to s counsel who applied for the supprest siou of his client’s name. “The ofi fence is becoming such an evil that f , (tut of opinion that, in addition to the names of the offenders being piibli-h- ---’ ed, llieif photographs should also he published in the papers for the in- ‘ formation of ear owners and the ptib--1 li,- generally. Although several names have been supprssed in the past, no more will ho kept from the public in future." Chief Detective Cummings added that tin' taking of motor ears was l>oeoming a daily occurrence in Auckland. and that the police were being put to no end of trouble in tracing the thieves. CIIILDRKN I Lf.-TR KATKD. CHRISTCHURCH. February 10. George Arthur It vans was convicted and ordered to come up when called upon within 12 months, on n charge of ill-treating his two sons, aged 11 and Id. The police evidence showed the I children had been thrashed and kicked and their bodies had been badly bruised. Kvitns said his wife died recently leaving him with nine children, their ages ranging from 19 years to 10 months. The oldest girl had left home. The Magistrate. Mr 11. A. Young, said the accused had to work hard, and his lot Wits rather harder than the ordinary working man had to hear. He took that into consideration in determining the penalty. An application for a. suppression of the name was refused.