DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1927, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

(by telegraph—per press association]

-GI.BOO MISSING. CHRISTCHURCH. May 11. At tiie Police Court a young woman, 22 years of age, whose name was suppressed. was remanded till Tuesday on a charge of theft of £2O from a firm of city merchants by whom she was employed as secretary. The police stated that the auditor's investigations of the hooks were expected to reveal defalcations amounting to CI.SOA.

’I he accuse.i was remanded on hail of £IOO. V -I ■ : e surety of £1 CO or two of £■•;! >

•-.'MALE THIEF. WEI-UNCION. -Mav II

Awaiting trial of having broken and entered To Am House, with intent to commit a crime, Jane Ann Johnston, married. l‘i. pleaded guilty at the Magistrate's Court to-day to four further charges involving stealing of goods of the value of £IOB-1 Pis lid. three of the charges being breaking, entering and theft from a dwelling in course of erection.

In at least one ease, license | employed a caller to remove the goods, hul in a stal.i incut to the polio.' sin would net divulge his name, as lie was in no way connected with the elm age.

When the police searched aeeiised s house, they fnimd all the stolen property. and produced it in court, a most, varied assortment. She was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, hail being refused.

GOVERNMENT MOVE. WELLINGTON. May 11

Following his recent review of the country's financial position, the Minister of Finance (Hen W. D. Stewart) announced the appointment oi a Special Committee of Departmental (lllieers who will scrutinise and review the estimates of expenditure for the current year.

The Committee will consist id the Public. Service Commissioner (Mr R. Verschaffcl), the Financial Adviser t > the Government (Colonel .1. J. Esson), the Chairman of the Railways Board (Mr F. J. Jones), the Secretary oi t lie Post and Telegraph Department (Mr (L .McNamara), and the Secretary to the Treasury (..Mr 11. I>. Park).

WO.M F.\ TFACIIERS. WELLINGTON. May 11. Alter discussion to-day at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Educational Institute on the question ol

employing married women in positions as teachers, a motion that the lusiitute should iillirm. as a policy that the marriage state should not iutorle*-.-with the employment ef women teachers was carried by (in votes to -L----while an amclidmiut tnat the question should ho deferred for twelve months and that during the year the Institute should take a referendum of members on the mutter, was Ic.-a.

RAPE CHARGES. CHRISTCHURCH. May 11. At the Supreme Court. Stanley Miller (aged 22) was found guilty of attempted rape on a girl seventeen seals of age in the Empire lintel right ol way. He was remanded until Friday for sentence.

A charge against a young man Main ed Treavor Hal diner of rape on a -0-year-old girl at Templeton was adjourned til! tu-morruw. PRIDF IN ( OLUSiON. CHRISTCHURCH. May 12.

A 'wide on Imr way to her wedding •,t St. Paul’s ( hurdi. Papanui. about • ;{) o'clock hist evening, received an ■iHoleasaui shook when a taxi in which die was travelling with her ninth; r an I L.t bridesmaid, was involved in a 'elision with a motor cycle. Ihe eyo.i-t was threw roughly on to the roan. Fortunately Tie did not suffer seii "i----injurv. Tim bride, greatly ilinros-e! hv the mishap, w o, forced to return to 'lev mother's home and it was man'll half an hour before she again tm *• load for church. A FATALITY. NEW PLYMOUTH. May 12.

A fatality was reported on the southern slopes of Mount F.gniont. A party of four. I.allmm, Taylor, Baines and Allan, the first being masters and the last-named a pupil of the Wanganui College. Apparently they as'ended the mountain and struck trouble on the way down, between the summit and Fatliam’s Peak. 'I hey were roped together, when one slipped. Taylor and Allen reached Dawson’s Falls and assistance was sent to tli:i others. The body of one was found mil it is uncertain which is the lourtli missing. Details are very meagre. Allen is all right, but Tavlor is suffering from shock. A search for tlie missing man is proceeding.

NF USE’S DEATH. AUCKLAND. Alav 12. Having disappeared from her home in Ilackett St. Ponsonliy lasi night. Nurse Margaret Campbell, was found dead, on St. Alary’s bench, bv a search party at 7 o'clock this morning, apparently drowned. Deceased served as a nurse for three years during the war. It is understood she had been mentioned in despatches. She had been in ill-health for some time as a result of her services in Franco, and had been unable to work on that account for a considerable period. She resided with her parents. She retired as usual last evening, and it was not until this morning she was discovered missing. No one saw her leaving the house. A SUSPENSION. AUCKLAND. Afa.v 12.

The Swimming Centre lias suspended ('. J. 'Sain tv, a commit .toman of the Ponsonby Amateur Swimming and Life Saving Club, until lie bus made a satisfactory explanation in. reference to his nomination of a. girl, whom he was coaching in tlie tiny tots race. It was alleged lie knew the girl was over