DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1927, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) £IOO FINE. WELLINGTON, Sept. 26. Fritz Hugo Dolling, hairdresser, pleaded guilty of using a shop at Petone as a common gaming house. The police stated the premises were raided this morning. Records showed that the accused had been carrying on betting for some years. He had taken over three hundred pounds worth of bets on Saturday, and fifty pounds worth this morning before the raid.

The accused was fined £75 in 1922 for a similar offence, and he had appealed successfully against his convic-

The Magistrate imposed a fine of £IOO.

CAR FATALITY. GISBORNE. Sept. 26. Word was received in Gisborne this evening of a. motor fatality oh the Coast Road between Ruatoria and Port Awanui. A service car, driven by Jack Brennan, and containing four passengers, Michael Hichey, Mark Borlaee and George Richardson and the small son of Borlaee, left Port Awanui about dusk, to go. to Ruatoria. about six miles front the latter township, lhe car, in rounding a bend, capsized and rolled over three times. Hichey was dead when found. The other three adults were suffering bruises and shock. The small boy was uninjured. Hichey was a middle-aged man, married, with one child, residing in Ruatoria, (where he was in business as a plumber.

FATAL ACCIDENT. WESTPORT, Sept. 26. Mr Thomas Mahon, aged 72, married, chief officer of the s.s. Canopus, when having the hatches removed this evening in preparation for the loading of coal, fell into the hold and was killed instantaneously. Deceased held a master’s certificate, and had done a. lot of trading in sailing vessels in all seas. It is understood his wife resides in Christchurch and that he has a. grown-up family.

MEDICAL CONFERENCE WELLINGTON, Sept. 26. The Government has appointed Dr T. J. Hughes, District Medical Officer at Auckland, as the Dominion delegate to the second conference of Medical Officers of the Pacific Group, under the League of Nations interchange schemes. The conference will he held in Delhi, India, at the beginning of next year, opening on Jan. Ist., or 2nd. Dr Hughes will leave some time in December and part of the conference proceedings will include a tour of the Punjab the. United Provinces. Agra and Cadh, Bengal. Assam, Madras and possibly Mysore and Bombay. On his return he will report to the Health Department. DISAPPEARED. WELLINGTON, Sept. 26. A second-class assistant steward, R. O. Symons, 25, was missed from the Makura at sea on September 18th. He was last seen at one o’clock in tlie morning, shortly after the Makura left Papeete.

DERAILMENT STOPS TRAFFIC. WELLINGTON, Sept. 27.

Through some shingle wagons running out from a siding on to the main line in the Hutt Valley three were derailed and blocked the line. Usual traffic will he restored this morning. It only affects the train to Wairarapa.

THE VEGETARIAN DISCUSSION ’CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 23. There is prospect of a very interesting match race being arranged between (;. W. Prebble. the well-known Christchurch long distance rider, and W. Comaii, also a successful road rider of Christchurch. The course suggested is from Dunedin to Christchurch, or from Oainaru to Christchurch, and the object of the race isi to test the “green leaf” (vegetarian) principles of feeding against the everyday diet. George Prebble lias been an advocate of the green leaf diet for the past two vears.

A deposit of £2O has been made on behalf of Prebble. The suggested date for the race is October 29.