DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1927, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TKI.EOHAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION ] TEAM V. BUS. AUCKLAND, .March 3u. There was still another step in the contest over the Takapuua tram and ferry transport to-day, when the Transport Appeal Board presided over by Justice l-raser, heard an appeal by the Traill and Terry Co. against the granting of a license by No I licensing authority to the yellow bus service of Allied Henry Smith. These buses run Horn Pevonport to Milford through I akapuna Borough, and have since 1.921 resulted in a profitable ferry trains service being converted into a losing concern. Leary (counsel for the Company) opening his case, said by hook or by (Took we are de-

termined that the tramway system shall he carried on 'because it represents lhe life of a complete roinmuniiy.. .Either Smith must go or the Company must go.

THEM' CHARGES. AUCKLAND, March HU. Christian John Jaylor, (ML pleaded guilty at the Police Court to sixty-two charges ineluding si.xty-nne of theft anil false pretences, involving £2-12. He was a canvasser for the Reliance Printer.v on a fifteen per cent commission. Mr .McKean. S.M., said the case must go to the Supreme Conn. It will he taken to-morrow as an indictable otfellce. A CHURCH CALL. AUCKLAND. March HU. Rev. W. L. .Marsh, M.A., has accepted a call to the Devoiiporl I’resbyterian Church. bigamy charge. PALMERSTON X.. March MO. At the Police Court this morning a mail aged 29, whose name was suppressed. pleaded guilty to going through a form of marriage at Palmerston North in 1.92-'). having been -ueviously married in Birmingham. England, in 191 b. 'the police stated aicused did not get on too well with his wife in England and came to New Zealand in 1921, two years later ruing through a form of marriage ••! Palmerston North, not letting the second person know lie was a married ■uan. lie was committed to the Suoreiue Court lor sentence oil bail of -£bo-

STOLEN SAR HINES. AUCKLAND. March 29. Pol- stealing a tin of sardines valued -l eigr.tpenee from a city grocery firm -i sterday Helen Katherine Boyd (ol). carried, wa- this morning lined L't "I default tell days' imprisonment. T\vo employees admitted to counsel hat accused had dealt with the shop or two years and had always paid ash. The shop manager stated that the •yc.man wanted to pay tor the sardines md L'l "just to square things.” Witness renlied that it was too late. A police s - rgeani at'-" gave evidence hat accused desired to settle the mater in the shop. SOPRt E EUR POWER. TIM ARP. March 29. The lion. K. S. Williams Minister • f Public Works) visited Timani to-day n company with Mr I'. I. M. Kissel, hie!' E! -virion I Engineer, and tu-uight ■mule a statement as to the source from while Lake Coleridge power would next he supplemented. He .tnted that, a site on the Waifaki River, a few miles above Kurow. had j been chosen. This statement was made to representatives cJ the Sottlh ( auU rhtiry, Ashburton and \\ aitalvi Power Boards. SCREEN CONTEST. AUCKLAND. March 2'. Mi-s Bifiie Audreassen. the New Zealand winner the First National' Picture Company's screen contest, sails liv the Niagara eii route to Melbourne. where she will contest the Australian filial at the Green M.ill Palais. Both the National and Lyric Theatres were crowded on Saturday night when Mi s Andiea-sen made heist aui'i-a.rain e before going to the • III.; |* side. She was given a rousing send oil, n large crowd assembling upside the l.yrir Theatre to catch a last glimpse of the popular little winner. When her act was finished at both theatres she made a short speech in which she thanked the people lor flit ir support and hoped that she would lie a credit to New Zealand. Mi Audreassen was presented with a runipjele wardrobe by John Court, Ltd., where she is employed. The First National organisation gave her a . le.-qne for 929, and the management of the National Theatre gave her one for 9b. FIRE BRIGADES. AIASTKRTOX, March 30. Speaking at. the annual reunion ol the Mastorton Eire Brigade io-niglit. Inspector T. T. Hugo regretted t hai the annual lire brigade competitions were deteriorating in practical use. Ihe gear which was used, lie said was never used at fires, and was used merely to continue old-lasliioned methods. He hoped that those controlling the Phi ted Association would endeavour to effect a much-needed remedy, and to institute competitions which | would he of practical use to firemen. MAN MISSING. DUNEDIN. March 30. A man named Leslie Malvern Karetai is reported as missing. He attended a dunce at PortoLello on Saturday night, and on Sunday morning some of lii.s clothes were found on the wharf. It. is believed the man has been drowned, as a note attached to one of his garments intimated that he had taken his life. The police and fishermen have dragged the harbour in the vicinity for three days, hut no body has been found.

A CAR SMASH. AUCKLAND, March 30. 1 A ear driven hy Leslie Lees, a travel ler for a tailoring firm, crashed sixty feet over a gorge on tile llowick Wliili ford Road. Lees jumped clear from the ear just in time. The ear caught five at the bottom, and was totally destroyed, as also were £250 worth of samples. SAVAGE. ASSAULT. AUCKLAND. March 30. An Indian fruiterer. I>ah,va Tarim, who conducts a business in a small shop near Kdendale Tramway Terminus. was savagely assaulted at *.30 I last night. A youth came into Tarim's shop to purchase a pound of pears-. While Tarim was stooping down weighing the fruit, he was struck a violent blow on the head with a bar of iron. 11 is assailant then ran out i of the shop and escaped. Tarim sus- I tained a cut on the forehead, and was attended to by a doctor, who found it necessary to insert several stitches in the wound. Tarim obtained a good view of the youth, so he will be able to identify him should be he apprehended by the police.

NAVAL OUTLAY. I CHRISTCHURCH. March 39. ,1 At the annual conference of the | Navy League to-day the President. Mr ' ,T. J. Dougall, said that no progress had been made in regard to the naval | defence of tho Dominion in the past year. Sea cadets were still a dream of the future. The Government should he urged to educate more of the youths of the country for sen. as the defence of New Zealand hy sea was of pnraj mount importance. New Zealand-should I bear her full share of naval defence, ! and not leave the whole burden to liri- ! tain, which was already overburdened. A series of remits from Auckland I were carried, advocating an improvement in the class of cruisers on the New Zealand coast, also an increased expenditure on naval defence, and stating it was the League’s belief that it was the bounden duty of the Dominion to hear a full, fair and reasonable proportion of the cost of naval defence. i