DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1927, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

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WINE FOR DANCES. CHRISTCHURCH, May 23. With tho idea, that someone was supplying liquor to the young people attending public dances in the city, the police set a watch on George Nelson Haskell, wine manufacturer, on Saturday evening. Haskell sold wine to a constable in plain clothes, and Haskell appeared in Court to-day. Tie was fined in all £l3 and costs on three charges, one of selling wine in a quantify of less than two gallons; one of selling wine in unlabelled bottles; and m .’ of selling wine after hours.

CONTESTANT FOR NEW ELECTORATE. .AUCKLAND. May 20. Mr V. IT. Potter, ALP. announced ho will contest tho new electorate in Auckland South at the next election. -Miss Melville will contest Roskill. I’otter's present seal, a.s a Reform candidate.

AUCKLAND LAND SALE. AUCKLAND. May 23. At the annual meeting of Tonson. Garlick and Coy. furniture manufacturers. the price at which its property in Queen Street was sold to John Fuller and Sons, who intend erecting a theatre on the site, was announced ns seventy-five thousand pounds, which works out at about eleven hundred and twenty-eight pounds a foot frontage.

The Chairman said that, by reason of the sale, the Company was able, after a long sequence of dividendless terms, to pay a dividend of eight per lent, as well as a bonus of live per cent. The property disposed of stood in the Company's hooks at approximately fifty-three thousand pounds.

DAIRY CONTROL. WELLINGTON. May 23. The Dairy Control Hoard met today. It urged the marking of New Zealand products as New Zealand. It was stated that it was anticipated that a payment of twopence per pound will lie made on all the whey blitter, also a payment of one penny per pound to all the cheese producers, covering the period when the advance oil cheese was .sixpence per pound, thus bringing all in line on a. sevciipeneeadvance basis. The estimated advance, in this cheese payment is £llO,000.

It is expected Hint a few necks later a further payment of one penny per pound will be made on all the butter in the second pool. This will approximate a. quarter of a million pounds.

Mr W. Goodl’ellow. who has just returned from England, considers that, tho suspension of the dairy control, price fixing policy was a colossal blunder. He said l lie Hoard should do tho whole thing, or nothing. Mr W. Goodfellow gave notice of motion, for next- meeting, to terminate tho pooling of dairy produce us irotn April 30th. Mr Bryant gave notice of a motion that price fixing be reinstated.

CAR TRAGEDY. WELLINGTON. May 23

In connection with the I lull Road smash, the previously unnamed victim is Grace Blown, of Kamri. Mrs McRae who with an infant had a miraculous escape, sitting alongside the driver is a (laughter of A. I), S. Duncan, the golfer. .Miss Williams is still unconscious in the hospital. 1 lie ear was missed by the owner 11. F. l.yon. wiu> pursued it in another ear without stopping to notify the police bill was unable to catch it. The Unit Road patrol policeman chased the ear and called on the driver to stop hut. without ellei-t. Soon afterwards tho collision ceuirred. Kenney, the dead driver of the service ear was very popular with travellers between Muxterton and Wellington, lie whs a '.married man with three young children. A few years ago he had a brot h-| or killed in a motor smash.

Ernest George Reid and Harry J-Skau. cy, 20 and 83, in the hospital, were unablo to appear when charged at the Police Court with unlawfully converting but not to he guilty of theft and remanded till Wednesday.

BETTING TELEGRAMS. CHRISTCHURCH, Alay 26.

The passage of betting telegrams through the Telegraph Office came in for some comment in the Alagistrate s Court to-day, in a case against a man for allegedly betting with Alfred Vivian AVhittn.

A telegram reading "Roy Mundane Licit)ins” was produced Mr Aloslcv, S.Af. said; in my ignorance I thought that telegrams (ike this were barred. Mr Brown who conducted the prosecution said that apparently there were some officers of she telegraph Department who “winked” at suen mes-

sages. The Alagistrate: Some of the telegrams would raise the suspicious ol a Tom Cat.

MARRIED TEACHERS. WELLINGTON, Alay 26

The Education Board had a. discussion on married women teachers’ question. One member bad issued a circular avowincr lii.s intention was to kill “the pernicious proposal to stop employment <>f married women. ’ By 7 to 5 it was decided to call lor a return of married women in the service, their status and dependents. A proposal ironi Auckland to circularise. all teachers and ask whet her they were in favour ol the present system or of giving Boards discretionary power, was rejected.

AEs.R. SURPRISE. AUCKLAND, Afay 23. Intimation that Ohenimuri was wiped out of existence took its member. A. Af. Samuel, completely'by-sur-prise. lie informed a “Star” reporter to-day lie certainly anticipated a slight alteration of the boundary and that the electorate would be made a geometrical square by the exclusion of Wailii and possibly the exclusi ui ol To Aroha.

While everybody knew a South fsland electorate had to go, Samuel did not expect a new electorate in the North Island would be created by the extinction of an old established electorate. It seemed to him like pulling up tin oak tree’s root and branch to plant tin acorn on adjacent ground. He bad yet to decide whether he would contest the new and unknown area.

FIVE YEARS' IMPOSED. DUNEDIN. .Alay 2(3. At the Supreme Court Arthur George Penney, who was found bidden in a loft of a wine spirit morehavßs' premises was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and declared an habitual criminal, on seventeen charges of theft and six of breaking and entering.

CYCLE THEFT SENTENCE. CHRISTCHURCH. Alay 26. For theft of a cycle valued at £6 Joseph AYilliam Groom, aged 22 was to-day sentenced to six months bard labour.

£7OO DAAIAGES. CHRISTCHURCH. Alay 20

The Supreme Court to-day awarded £7OO damages to Charles Gibson a labourer, in a claim against the Railway Department for damages on account of Injuries lie rereived ip well sinking.

A AY OMAN BANKRUPT. AUCKLAND, May 26. At a meeting of creditors in the estate of Afrs Florence Ohatterton, who traded as a beauty specialist under the name of Florence Mullen, the schedule showed liabilities £4SI os 9d, assets five shillings. Tn a statement the bankrupt said she conducted a beauty parlour at AA'ellington til! 1924, the average takings being £2O a week. She came to Auckland on account of her mother’s illness and started a beauty parlour here, which she got on a paying footing. Litigation over her mother’s will cost her about £4OO She. tried to start a business in Wellington, again, hut failed. The creditors deferred consideration whether they will provide money to bring the bankrupt hack from Wellington.

DRUNKEN DRIYER. OAATARU, ATa.v 26. A young man, Lew A'aile. for driving a ear while intoxicated was fined £7 and costs and prohibited from driving for two years by Air Bundle SAL, this morning. A’aile had been drinking in the afternoon. Ho went to the social at night and took a car from outside, and during a joy-ride collided with and damaged another ear.