DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1927, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. ten pound fine. PALMERSTON N.. Sep. 1!). At the Police Court, Patrick Cunningham, a confectioner, was fined £lO for failing to close on the Saturday half holiday. An inspector stated he received numerous complaints of defendant having sold cigarettes. Evidence was given l>v a second inspector of having purchased cigarettes on a half holiday. Defendant said ho was in the hospital at the time.

PREMISES BURGLED. PALMERSTON N.. Sep. 19. On Saturday night the premises at Bull's of S. Avery, a linker, and V. Edliouse. a draper, were entered. The burglar’s entrance was made by breaking a window in the rear of the premises. At Avery's the cash register till was robbed of twelve shillings in coppers. At Edliouso’s a pair of boots was taken.

FARMING FATALITY. THAMES. Sept. 19. Thomas Perry, 57, single, employed by A. J. Houseman, farmer, of Hauraki Plains, was killed last evening by a stack of hay falling on him. YO UTHF UI, CRIMINALS. AUCKLAND, Sept. 19. Joseph Robert Salter, aged 16; Harley William Dear. 10; Walter Richard Dear (brother) 17 and Cecil George Robertson, 19 were sentenced to-day by Magistrate Hunt to one year’s Borstal detention on a series of charges of converting eleven motor cars to their own use. ANOTHER FATAL COLLISION. CARTERTON, Sept. .19. A fatal accident occurred at Cross Creek. FcaUierston Road on Saturday. At 730 p.in. three men Reg. Ilnyloek, train tester. Sam Monteiih. enginedriver and N. Doolian. labourer, all young, employed by the Railway Department at Cross Creek, were returning from Fentherstou on Haylock’s motor cycle and side ear. Haylock driving. Monteith was in tho side-car and Doolian on the pillion. Proceeding along the road they mot a motor lorry. When passing loose metal caused a skid and the eyele turned into the lorry. Haylock and Doolian were knocked off. the former falling between the cycle and the side-car. It is thought both knocked their heads on tho lorry. They were picked up and taken to Greytown Hospital, where Haylock died at 3.30 yesterday. Doohan’s condition is still considered serious. Monteith escaped injury. The inquest opens to-day.

THROWN FROM HORSE CARTERTON, Sept. 19. Miss E Gibous, a domestic employed, by Mrs D. C. Collins, ol Featherston, was thrown from a pony yesterday and admitted to the Greytown Hospital. The injuries, though serious are not considered dangerous. WOMAN DISAPPEARS. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 19. The disappearance of the married woman, Mrs L. J. Burt, aged 10 years, is causing her friends anxiety. She left home at 2.30 p.in. on Saturday for Sydenham Cemetery, where she proposed to place some (lowers on the grave of her mother. She was seen at the cemetery by a friend at 3.30 p.m. but since that time her movements are unknown.

ANOTHER .MOTOR COM, IS I ON. WELLINGTON, Sept. 19. By a collision between a motor-car and motor cycle on Upper Hutt Rond. N. Pa rata and J. Aldridge, two Public Works labourers who were riding a cvei'e had legs fractured, and are in a serious condition. J. Frame, who was in the car, received injuries to his head. MISSING FISHERMAN. WELLINGTON, Sept. 19. Although search parties, comprising the whole of the Island Bay fishing fleet were in the Straits all day yesterday, no sign of the two fishermen missing since Thursday could he found. Grave fears now are entertained for their safety, but tbe search is not yet abandoned. Enquiries also are being made in the Marlborough Sounds. BURGLARS SURPRISED. AUCKLAND, Sept. 19.

When two burglars forced with a crowbar the door of a Dominion Road confectionery at five o’clock on Sundaymorning, a son of the proprietress was waiting behind it with a baton with which he struck the first intruder on the head. In the ensuing chase the custodian brought to earth the second man with a. well-aimed bottle.

The police later took him into custody and subsequently arrested his mate at a lodgings in Newton. Both appear at the court this morning. Sydney Asheiulen, alias Robinson, 28, and Henry Richard Jeffrey, 28, wore the two men arrested on the’charge of breaking and entering the Dominion Road confectionery at five o’clock on Sunday morning. They were remanded to Setpember 22nd, bail being refused. SHOP BURGLED. DUNEDIN. Sept. 19. A clothing shop in the city was broken into during the week-end anct clothing valued at £3O was stolen. Entrance was effected through a cellar, thence through a trap-door into the shop. OPEN AIR CLASS-ROOM. NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 19. At the infant school this morning the Minister of Education, formally

opened the first open air class room built in the North Island and stated it was the Department’s intention to go on with the policy- of building similar rooms. WAREHOUSE BURGLED. AUCKLAND. Sept. 19. Irvin a Clark’s warehouse in Anzar Avenue was burglarised and enteied over the week-end. Cigars and tobacco to the value of £(>o were stolen, ’he thieves scaled a six feet fence and

found the barbed wire entanglement between the fence and the warehouse no barrier.