DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1927, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

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100 FEET FALL. FIVE AIEN HURT. HAMILTON, March 28. A party of Xgaruawahia motorists Hul a miraculous escape from death when their ear went over a high bank on the Raglan deviation at 8 o’clock last night. All were injurect. Tho occupants were:— Bert Fowldes, who sustained concussion. and compound fracture of the wrist. Harold Bernard McLean, spinal injuries. Archie Ernest Shields, a fractured wrist and shock. John Haggle, abrasions and shock. The accident occurred at a sharp bend, fifteen miles from Hamilton. Apparently the driver, Haggle took too wide a sweep when negotiating tne turn, and the car plunged over the top of an almost perpendicular bank. The car fell 109 feet, crashing through scrub and trees, to finish a complete wreck at the bottom, parts of the ctor being strewn everywhere. Nurses had to be lowered oil ropes, and the sufferers were pulled up on ropes before being sent to the AA'aikato Hospital CAR, FATALITY. HAAULTON, March 28. Edward Alilier Rouse was charged to-day in Lhc Alagistrate’s Court with alleged negligently and dangerously driving a motor lorry, and thereby causing the death of Alice Alyra Alorris, aged 16, whom he knocked down. The accused pleaded not guilty, and reserved his defence, being committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Bail was allowed in <a surety of £IOO. NEW PAPER AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND. March 26. A daily evening newspaper, the. Sun has made its first appearance in Auckland. It is an olf-shoot of the Christchurch journal of the same name, which was established 13 years

'The new journal is issued from substantial premises at tho corner of Albert and AVyndlmm Streets. Tho first number contained 24 pages and is probably a fair measure of the bid the newcomer will make for public support. Tlie directors and staff of the Sun entertained about 400 guests the other evening, when tho premises were officially opened. The visitors were received by Mr E. C. Huie and Air Robert Burns, chairman of directors. An inspection of the plant was made. An edition of the paper was printed containing a brief account of the reception. This enabled those present to watch the process through which the written word passes before it becomes the printed word. Music was provided on the editorial floor hv a string orchestra and later there was dancing. The premises were doom V-tod with flowers and greenery.

SERIOUS CM -URGES. WHANGAREI, March 28. Charles Roy Banton, taxi proprietor, of D.irgaville. and Ivor Vincent Settles, printer’s apprentice, also of Dargaville. were charged in the Magistrate’s Court before Air F. AT. Levien, S.M., to-day, with taking two young Whangarei girls aged 16 and 15 yotus respectively out of the possession of, and against the will of. their narents. with intent that the girls should be unlawfully carnally known. Banton was also charged with attempting to unlawfully carnally know a girl under 16 years. Scoles was also charged with abetting Banton in the commission ot tlie (alleged crime. The story concerned a motor journey to Dargaville last Saturday week. They occupied an unoccupied house, but they were soon found by Sergeant Griffiths of Dargaville, as a result of a mess-age wired through from the AVhangarei police. _ The charge against Scoles or abduction was dismissed, and lie was committed to the Supremo Court on the charge of abetting. Banton was committed on the charge of attempted carnal knowledge; the charge of abduction being dismissed. Bail in iV-ioh case was fixed at £l9O self and a surety of £IOO, the ease was heard at this evening, and the Court rose' at. 11 p.m. FARMER'S DEATH. CHRISTCHURCH. March 28. An inquest into the death of 1-ran-cis Joseph Rogatski, aged 52 a farmer concluded to-day. Rogatski foil from a drav on February 22, and tlie wheel passed over bis body. He died m Urn Christc-liiireli HosjntUl on March 10th. The verdict was tliat death had tollov - e,l internal haemorrhage, due to Rogatski being run over by a dray.

art union fine. WANGANUI, March 28. A ten non lid fine was inflicted upon George Ormsby, Secretary of the Castled iff Beach Improvement Society, at the Magistrate’s Court to-dav, for a, breach of the Regulations under which the permit for the Beach Tmproveinnt Ant Union was issued. Among the ton conditions, the defendant was not to deliver hooks of tickets indiscriminately, but was

await applications. Last month, however. the defendant sent out tickets with the covering letter, and some of the envelopes fell into the hands of the police.

During the police evidence, it transpired that the butts of one hook were found on the river hank. The seller of this apparently decamped with the money.

Defendant raised the novel point that if a person purchased a ticket in another Art- Union, it was sufficient acknowledgement that the purchaser was willing to act as agent. The circulars enclosed were only personal letters to agents.

The Magistrate. Mr J. S. Barton, held that the sentence —“I enclose a hook of tickets,” clearly indicated a breach of the permit conditions. The time had arrived for a halt in raffles, he added, which were becoming an intolerable nuisance in the community. In the case under review, there was a distint flouting of the Act, which made for had citizenship.