DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1927, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—l’er Press Association.) GOVERNMENT LOAN'S MEETING. WELLINGTON. July 16. At a, meeting ol the local Government Loans Board yesterday. there were, present R. E. I laves. Secretary to Treasury (Chairman), ]<". \Y. Uui'kert, iKiiginoot'-in-Chiel' of Public Works Department, G. ('. Godfrey, Secretary of the .Marine Department, W. J. Holdsu'oi'Lli, Chairman of the Auckland Electric Power Board, G. A. I.ewin, Town Clerk of Dunedin, and S. A. R. Alair, County Engineer of the Rangitikei County. Twenty-six applications for the sanction of loans, totalling £1.315,872. were deal! with and three loans totalling twelve thousand sterling for the relief of unemployment were sanctioned and also fifteen new loans for £988.115 and four renewal loans for £155,557 in all cases subject to conditions as regards repayment. The remaining applications were either declined. or deferred hack to the local authorities for amendment.

GRASS WORKS REORF.X. AUCKLAXT). July 111. Unemployment will be slightly relieved on Monday by the restarting of the glass works at Penrose which were closed for six months for lack el' orders. Seventy or eighty men are rci|iii rod. KX-ARMY OFF 1C I'll! FIXED. ArOKT.AXD. duly In. •Tames Phillip AValslie. an accountant, and an ex-Army officer, was fined £1 and costs, and suppression of his name was refused, for stealing one shilling belonging to a fellow boarder. He had borrowed money from the latter, and as nine single shillings bad been taken at different times, a trap was set for AYalslie. who was suspected and he was caught with a marked sTiilling buying cigarettes. Counsel said that because a man took one shilling it didn’t prove he took the lot. It may be that there was a professional thief about. The Magistrate (Air McKean): Acs, 1 think so. Regarding suppression, counsel said that there were other men with the same name and initials. Air McKean : Oh well there is safety in numbers. A local business man said that A\ nisi, e was his officer during the war. He had known him for ten years as a decent, respectable man. who was at present out of employment.