DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1926, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[uy telegraph—peh p&ess association.] I AUCKLAND, May 1. Harry Robert Wills was charged at the Police Court with uttering threats against the Child Welfare League Officer in connection with a case in which his child was taken from him and was sent io a Training Farm. He was remanded till May .3, on his own surety of £lO9. on condition that lie shall report daily to the police. LOST r.N FOG. GISBORNE. May 1. An anxious experience befell a Waipiro Bay family on Wednesday night, when their infant, son did not return homo from school in the afternoon, j but wandered round the l>eacli where lie was overtaken by darkness. Ho then turned to tho* hills. His parents, in the meantime organised a search party which traced the child round the beach, hut failed to locate him. The searchers then built a driftwood fire on the beach, hoping that the child would see it. and he attracted to it. hut it was not until 8.30 a.m. on Thursday that the wanderer was found. IHBLK IN SCHOOLS. AUCKLAND, May 1. By 20 votes to 20. the Auckland Branch of the Educational Institute defeated a motion that selected portions of the Bible should he read in the schools. The Institute also resolved in favour of the age limit for the Junior National Scholarships being reduced from fourteen years to thirteen. EIRE AT PICTURE SHOW. GISBORNE, May 3. Ail outbreak of fire occurred at a country picture show at Tekaraka on Saturday night shortly after the interval. The hall in which the pictures were being shown was completely destroyed. A worehrit piece of film caught in the gate of the machine and when Powell, the operator, went to extinguish the flames another film caught alight, the fire thereafter spreading rapidly. Powell was slightly burned about the head and hands. A DUNEDIN TRAGEDY. DUNEDIN, .May 3. About 7 o'clock this morning Batrick John ,lager accosted Constable Watkins at South Dunedin police station and said he had murdered his mate. Arthur Creagh, who lived with him in tiu* same room in a private hoarding house in Cargill Road. Sergeant Murray went to the house and found Ureagh..lying on a lied with his throat cut. his head being almost severed. .lager said “I did the right thing, if I had not killed him he would have killed me to-night, lie is after me for my money. There is a gang watching me. I am not worrying about it. as I did the right thing.” Both men had been mates since boyhood and worked together for about 20 years as machinists at Dnnaghy’s rope works. Both are aged about 40 and they were always considered the best, ol pals. It is stated that J tiger had been behaving peculiarly lately, fie told the police that .he tried to drown himself yesterday. 'Hie theory is that the murdered man was first hit on the head with a bottle as when tile police arrived the parts of a. broken blue peter were found on the bed and floor. Prior to , giving himself up, .lager threw ninety- , three pounds in notes into the I rout garden of a house adjoining.