DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1926, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS

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AFAQItt LAND

HASTINGS, July 24. The Maori Land Board yesterday confirmed the previous resolution passed by native owners of Puketitiri block for the sale thereof to the Crown. Next Thursday promises to be a rod letter day for tile ALioris for the Native Land Purchase Board will bo paying out about seventeen thousand seven hundred sterling as the purchase money for a bloek. Hastings business people especiallly are looking forward to Thursday.

ABATER IN BUTTER

AUCKLAND, July 24. At the Police Court, Alagistrate Hunt fined the Hineurn Co-operative Dairy Cov. Ltd., and Rotorua Dairy Factory each live pounds for sending butter for grading prior, to export, containing about sixteen per cent of water; Counsel for liotli companies stated the excess moisture was inadvertent so far as Hinuern was concerned. In correspondence with the Department both companies had been exonerated, though a prosecution was forced upon, as it was a matter of duty. A CHILD KILLED. CHRISTCHURCH. July 24. Seven weeks ago, Christchurch was horrified to read of the tragic death at Sumner of a child only a few weeks old, the circumstances being that it was caused hv an act of the child’s temporarily demented mother. The woman was afterwards found in the sea off the Espanade in a state of collapse. The tragic story was told at the inquest to-day. when a fourteen-ycnr-old hoy described his mother's action. The medical evidence showed that the child had been cut about the neck. The woman had shown every indication of pnperal mania, which sometimes followed confinement. A verdict was returned that the child, died from a wound inflicted by the mother while temporarily insane.