DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1927, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[ISY TELEGRAPH——PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WESTPORT BETTING FINE. WESTPORT. March 23. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day. before Mr Meldrum, Fuincis Higgins was fined £2O. with costs, for carrying on business as a bookmaker. TAKAPUNA TRAM LITIGATION AUCKLAND, March 23 Jusii e McGregor gave bis reserved jiulge'U'-ut on the application by corain Takapuna ratepayers for an injunction to restrain the Borough Council from i-king over the undertakings of the Tdcpuna Tramways and Ferry Comp;-!. • i.i respect of which the Conn til ha a ' ounecd a poll to authorise a loan. ■ Honour said ho was satisfied . the arrangenmts for purchase. or September, 21) 1923. were ultra vires of the Municipal Corporat- i ion Act. mil defendants must he restrained by an order of the Court from carring them into effect. As the ease may he carried to the Appeal Court or Parliament, authority is to he asked to draw up a new agreement in conformity with Justice McGregor's decision. which council for the company explains was evidently against the Borough taking over the whole of the company's business more than to the purchase of the trims and ferries thenselves.

DECISION RESERVED. WELLINGTON, March 21. The Appeal’ Court reserved its det ision in the case against the Dairy Control Board. REMANDED. AUCKLAND. .March 21. Abraham Wally Sal aman, 40, an Indian herbalist, was charged at the Police Court with attempting to obtain five/shillings by falsely representing himself as a person capable of diagnosing and curing ailments and skill in the treatment of disease. Chief Detective Cummings stated there were further charges pending. Accused was remanded on hail of £250.

CHEESE CRATE PRICES. HAMILTON, March 21

Advice has been received by the •Saw-millers’ Association that the Minister of Industries and Commerce has convened a meeting of representatives of interested parties in the manufacture. transport and use of cheese crates to ascertain if production is possible at a price enabling successful competition with the imported i-rar. s. WAL\IATx. flood. CHRISTCHURCH. March 21. The Waimakariri river broke through its hank in two places near Kaiapoi yesterday evening, Hooding paddocks, and roads, hut causing more inconvenience than damage. Now the waters are steadily subsiding. SAMOAN UNREST. WELLINGTON. March 24. Movements, designed to foment discord among the native population of Western Samoa and to undermine its confidence in the abiltiv of the New Zealand Government to continue the mandate ill the best interests of Samoan welfare, were dealt wilh at some- length by the Administrator of the territory! Sir George Richardson). In his speech delivered at a meeting of the Samoan Legislative Council at Apia on March loth. Richardson made it perfectly clear that theTio!icy whicli has proved so satisfactory in Une past, was not going to he changed in spite of the efforts advanced recently bv a few Europeans. Richardson stated Hint these Europeans were working against their own interests, the interests of other Europeans • and interests of the natives. The New Zealand Government was the trustee of the native race, and would not transfer the trusteeship to any section of the mercantile community or any other authority. The natives had progressed under the New Zealand Government’s policy and the European community was prosperous. REMANDS GRANTED. CHRISTCHURCH. March 21. Remands until next Thursday were granted in the cases of Alfred YiviWliitta. John Henry Bolt and "William Henry Cousins, who appeared before Mr Mosley. K.M.. this morning, on gaming bouse charges. Bail was allowed AYliitta £401) and one surety of '£'4oo. Bolt and Cousins were each allowed bail in £2OO and one surety of £2OO on condition that the men report daily lo the police.

A FIRE. WAIROA, March 24. A fire this morning badly gutted a cottage at North Clyde owned hv J. Robinson and occupied bv A. Dunnaeliie. Most of the contents were saved. It is understod neither building nor furniture were insured. The origin is unknown. PROBATION G B ANTED. GISBORNE, March 24. Rosie Kawoiyui was admitted to proha tion for two years at the Police Court on a charge of issuing a false cheque for £.3, which she admitted having done on the impulse of the moment, through straightened circumstances.. Accused appeared at Court accompanied by her two young children. She stated her husband was in a hospital 1 .

(OMMITTED FOR TRIAL. AUCKLAND, March 24. At the Police Court Roy Battup, aged 34, was committed for trial on a charge of uttering cheques to the* amount of £4O and £3O, knowing them having been forged, also with a breach of probation, the sentence on the latter charge being differred. SERIOUS FLOOD DAMAGE. BLENHEIM, March 24. A flood at Waihopai yesterday evening did great damage to Marlborough hydro-electric power headworks at Ben Hopai which will probably necessitate many thousands expenditure and a delay in completion of many months. Details are meagre. RUGBY RULE PLAY. WELLINGTON. March 24. At the immial meeting of the Mellington Rugby Union, Mr Mark Xicholls moved that in view of the visit to South Africa all representative matches North v. South, and trial matches, be placed under the old kick into touch rule. The opinion was expressed that New Zealand would he under a serious disadvantage if it did not prepare for the altered tactics necessitating by the old rule, that the International Board was not likely to ,liter. The motion was carried unanimously.