DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1926, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

(by telegraph- —per press association.] ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.

AUCKLAND, June 1

A fatality occurred at AVarkworth to-day, a farmer named Robert McKinney, aged thirty-four, single, being accidentally shot. Ho left his farmhouse alter breakfast to work on a portion of the farm about a mile distant, taking a, dog and gun with him, with the intention of doing some shooting on the way. The dog returned to the farm-house about ten o’clock, and when McKinney failed to appear for dinner his sister, who was the only ono home at the time, went out to investigate. She found her brother lying dead a few yards from a wire fence. Evidently the Occident had occurred when deceased "was trying to climb over the fence. TNTOX TCATED DR I VEIL HAMILTON, June 4. A young Maori Jack Leaf, a visitor to Hamilton from Waihi, was sentenced, to a month’s imprisonment at the Hamilton Court to-dav for driving a car while in a state of intoxication, unlawfully converting a car to bis own use, resisting arrest, .and assaulting a, constable. Accused admitted the charges. He resisted violently when the constable endeavoured to effect bis arrest, and was handcuffed after a desperate struggle. ROTORUA TRAGEDY. ROTORUA, Juno -I. Tho body of the last victim, Gustave the Rotorua tragedy, was recovered yesterday. An inquest was Hold to-day and a verdict of accidontaly death by drownfiig was returned. The evidence shov-d ; fiat deceased was divested of his heavy military overcoat. Reports that (lies were heard over ,;i prolonged period suggest that deceased remained trying to help his, comrades, who were iot swimmers. Tlip boat was a cranky craft, and unsafe in a seaway. ANZAC DAY. WELLINGTON, June 1. Tho Dominion Council of the R.S.A. has decided to request committees of bankers and Employers’ Associations to co-operate with the Association with a, view Lo introducing legislation providing for an amendment to tho Banking Act and existing legislation to provide that a bank holiday shall not he observed on a Monday wffim Anzae Day falls on a Sunday. A SCHOOL BURNT. TTMARU. June 5. Belfield School, three miles outside of Ornri, and twenty-two miles from Timaru. was completely destroyed by firo late last night. The building was an aged wooden one and was quickly demolished IMPORTATION OF SEEDS. WELLINGTON, June 5.

In accordance with a promise made when the embargo was first imposed against the importation of agricultural produce from California, Washing State, and Oregon that due notice would be given of any proposed modification of the regulations, the Minister of Agriculture announces that provided no s fresh outbreak of foot and mouth disease occurs in the meantime it, is the Government's intention after August Ist next, to modify the regulations to permit the introduction of seeds of flowers, vegetables, grasses, clovers and trees from these States, harvested since April Ist, 192(1.