DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1927, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS

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HOMELESS- -MEN. WELLINGTON, May 26. Four men whose ages ranged from 32 to 41 years, who have been sleeping out in tiie scrub at the top of Constable Street were prosecuted to-day. William Lloyd, Arthur Bryce, and Alfred Charles, Welshmen, wore charged with being idle and disorderly, in that they had insufficient lawful means of support; and Robert William AJclnLyre was charged with being a rogue and vagabond for that reason, and a previous conviction tor being idle* and disorderly. The police report showed that all the men had a list of previous convictions. and it was stated they were addicted to drinking methylated spirits. Afclntyre got six months’ imprisonment, and the others three months.

AIISSTNG ALAN FOUND DEAD. DUNEDIN, Alay 26. The body of James Kennedy, who had been missing in the Aliddlemareh district for six weeks, .was found at Rockland Station on Wednesday. ’VARSITY DEGRESS CONFERRED. WELLINGTON, Alay 20. At a meeting of the New Zealand University Council on Tuesday last, the degree of Doctor of Science was conferred on Dr J. Bell Condiiffe, late Professor of Economies at Canterbury College. At the same meeting the Union Scholarship in Zoology was awarded to AH AY. R. B. Oliver, of Victor in University College. The syllabus revision committee continued sitting to-day, when further evidence was taken. It will also sit to-morrow, and will then adjourn to August. “GRAB” FALLS ON ALAN. AUCKLAND. Afay 26.

Severe injuries, including a fracture of the pelvis, were sustained by James Flight, a married man, employed by the Harbour Board, through being crushed underneath a “grab" at the King’s AA’harf this afternoon, and he died in the Hospital to-night. Flight was engaged in repairing the “grab ’ which was a heavy one. and while wheeling it on a truck, it overbalanced and fell across his body.