DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1927, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS.

[Br TELEGRAPH —PER PIIESB ASSOCIATION ] NEW PLYAIOUTH. April 14. .A. E. AVilson (retiring Mayor) was re-elected unopposed. Seventeen noniinatious for Council including all retiring councillors. Four nominations for two seats on the Harbour Board. No contest for the Hospital Board. A PECULIAR AFFAIR. AUCKLAND EAST, April 14. Cries for help on Mangere Bridge last night brought a prompt response from passers-lty-, wlio found one man on the ground and two others attempting to take something from him. Allen. senior, caught one man as he was attempting to jump a fence and held him until help arrived. His daughter sei etl the other fellow, who appeared to strike her a heavy blow, when Allen felled him with a right-hander. All three men concerned in the affray were - lodged in the police station where a handling, stated to be in possession of tho man assaulted, was found to tain opium worth about £2O. BOOKMAKER’S LIABILITIES. NEW PLYAIOUTH, Apri 14. The Chief Justice delivered his rereserved judgment on the points of law in tho Wa-itara betting case, in which Ernest Johnston claimed £l4B from Denis George, arising from a betting tramfiction, in which fraud avas alleg- * ed. Two questions were involved-—the recoverability or otherwise, by plaintiff. under tbe Gaming Act, of moneylost and paid by cheque, and the recoverability, -or otherwise of money* - * from, a person Carrying on the business of a bookmaker.

Sir E. P. Skerrott ruled that in the first case money was recoverable, hut \U_r if the transaction was with a bookmak- m or the amount was not recoverable. The effect of the judgment is that, to successfully defend the claim, George must establish that Johnston w»s a bookmaker. “PATH TO POAYI'.R.” FINE OF £lO ON VENDOR. AUCKLAND. April 14. A waterside worker, AYalter Hodgson, was last week charged in the Police Court with selling a document entitled “The Hath to Power,” which, it was r “ alleged, encouraged lawlessness and violence, contrary to the AYar Regulates Act. In his reserved judgment to-day, Mr AY. R, AlcKean. S.AL, bed thl'.t tho book encourages lawlesness, contrary to the Act, and that, as defendant sold the hook, he must he convicted. A liije' of £lO was imposed. LIBEL CLAIAL AUCKLAND, April 16. Air Morton Aldis, p candidate for a position on the Board of Trustees of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind, has issued a writ against the Auckland Sun, claiming £330 damages for Alleged libel. AVESTPORT, Apri 13. Mi- J. H. Hark ness, the well-known retired schoolmaster, has been elected as Alavor unopposed. There are 14 nominations for the nine seats on the Borough Council, and there are five nominations for three seats on the Hospital Board.