DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1927, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[llY TKI.ECItAI'II —I'liH l’itnss ASSOCIATION.] FORGERY CHARGER. NEW PLYMOUTH, .June 1. IU the Police Court. Hector Yictor Peuwardon. aged 27, pleaded guilty Lo two cliurges of forgery in respect to two cheques passed at New Plymouth and Eltham during February of a total value of £27. He was committed to the Supreme Court-. Wellington, for sentence. A detective said other charges were pending; ui other centres against accused lo which accused’s counsel said he would plead guilty.

IT.M.R. DUN EDI N RETURNING. WELLINGTON. May ID. The light cruiser Dunedin, which went Home about three mouths ago to he refitted, will leave Shceniess on llie return journey lo New Zealand on June lOtli, according to advice received by the .Minister for Defence Ghe linn. Mr Bolleston). According to the itinerary mapped out. she will lm at Bermuda from June 19th to 21st, at Kingston (Jamaica) from June 25th to 2!)!h, al Bullion Iron; July Ist, to Jt.li, at Nnltuhiva on July loth and Kith, and al I’apeele from July 19th to 23rd. She is due at Auckland on Sunday, Julv 31st.

AX INTERESTING POINT. WELLINGTON. .M:iv HI. AVhether a man who lias heeit legally separated from Iris wile is entitled to lie giyen credit under a deed nl' separation for {Gratuitous payments made to her hy the firm for which he worked for a considerable period was a point at issue in a reserved judgment by Air Page, S.At.. which was given today.

Rubinn Mason, of Otaki, sought to recover from Robert Little Mason LI 70 3s 4d, a bala nee allegedly due under a separation deed made in 1924. which gave the custody of one child to plaintiff, defendant agreeing to payor cause to pay his wife CIO Ills Sd each month. It was claimed hy defendant that payments, totalling £l3O. at the rate of £ls a month made hy his employers, should he credited as money paid or caused to he paid hy him. hut it appeared that he had allowed judgment to go hr default against him, when action was brought when he was allegedly five months in arrears. Mr Page said it had been the practice of the company to make payments to the wife in eases of voluntary resignation of employees who had been long in the service. They were, however, entirety gratuitous. By allowing judgment to go against him. defendant had concluded the matter in favour of plaintiff. for whom judgment for the full amount was given.

si'ict DAL PASSENGER. CMlilS'i v 1 i l ltd I, June 1. Mr Justice Frazer lt;i<l an adventure on the steninui' Waliine on licr voyage I'ioiii Wellington on Tin silav. A steward was attempting to restrain a passenger whom he suspected of having designs to plunge overheard. The steward was being hndlv worsted in the light, and lie was in sore distress. .Mr Justice Frazer was lying wakeful in his cabin. and lie had heard sounds of a distant struggle, hut when he heard the er.v “ Murder! Murder! ” he jumped from hed and rushed to Uie scene, arriving in time to save tin 1 steward from serious injury.

The judge pulled the steward's a

sailant away, hut tile man still fought furiously. Fair words and persuasion failed to pacify him, and eventually the judge agreed with the steward th.*t sterner measures were necessary. These were effective: The man was thrown and held till help arrived. DAIRY HOARD. RINFOEN. June I. The constitution of the Dairy Produce Control Hoard was roundly condemned at the annual meeting of South Island Dairy Association to-dav. A mot'on was unanimously carried that, in the event of any alteration being made in the Dairy Product' Control, (he Act he made so that the Hoard -dial! he made up only of producers’