DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1927, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS.

(I3y Telegraph—Per Press Association. BURGLAR CAUGHT. WELLINGTON, Oct. 31. Arthur Harold Anderson pleaded not guilty at the Supreme Court this morning to charges of having broken and entered the warehouse of Janies Staples, Egmunt Street, to charges of having stolen hoots, and to charges ol having received goods knowing them to have been stolen.

.Mr P. S. K. Macassey, who prosecuted. stated that there were three separate charges of breaking and entering the warehouse on April 27th, June I hh, and .July Kith. -After it was found that the premises were broken into a watch was set, Constable Bradlev and Henry Ei.sk waiting inside. About ten o’clock one night they heard a noise at the hack of the warehouse, and later the accused came into the place. He was accosted by the constable and a struggle followed. The constable succeeded in getting one handcuff on Anderson, who then broke

lie was followed by the constable who caught him in Jessie street, hut after another struggle, in which the constable used his baton, Anderson got away. He was interviewed the following day by the police, who found I’rosli cuts on his head and saw that Jiis wrist was slightly injured. When asked when he had done with the handcuffs he had replied that he had thrown them into tho sea.

Nothing was found in Anderson’s room, hut in a suit* case found on a shelf opposite his door were discovered ■shoes and hoots similar to those kept in the warehouse.

Alter evidence had been given for the Crown and counsel’s addresses and summing up had been heard, the jury this afternoon found Anderson guilty of breaking and entering with intent to commit theft, and he was sentenced to reformative detention for a period not exceeding three years. SEAMEN PROTEST. WELLINGTON. Nov. 1. The Eederated Seamen of New Zealand this morning resolved that this meeting of members of the Federated Seamen’s Union of New Zealand, realises that the proposed amendment to tho I.C. and A. Act has the following anti-working class characteristics:—

(I) In placing the pastoral workers outside tin' Ciuri, anil tiie refusal to grant any further awards covering that industry, the amendment is. in fact, a wage reduction to the weakest organised section of New Zealand workers.

:i) The provisions lor bargaining bciw.en employer and indivdunl worker known as " payments by results ” is a dirci t blow at the I iindameiital prim iple of ’I r.nle Unionism- mimeiy. collective

bargaining. Kl) Tiie proposal to substitute for a permanent assessor one appointed for a single dispute, is a direct attempt to make the present form of trade union organisation more susceptible to attack from the employing class. This meeting, therefore, declares its willingness to co-operate with the rest of the Trades Unions Movement in a light for the following as a reply to this manifest employing-elass attack on the workers of this country:—

(I) An agitation for the abolition of the Court, and a struggle for the right: to collective bargaining by Unions with Slate interference.

(2) All active campaign to ensure full trade union wages and conditions on all jobs, and whole-hearted support in the campaign for the further organisation of all country workers.

EXPLOSION OF OKI.IONITE. AUCKLAND. Nov. I. A verdict of aeeidontal dentil was returned by .Mr F. K. Hunt, 5.. M., at an int|nost eoneerning the death of George Hamilton AfeAlahon, of Alorningside, who died in the Auckland Hospital, as the result of injuries received in a premature explosion of Deceased had been employed by the .Mount Albert Borough Council, and was engaged in tunnel work. He was working an electric drilling machine, and boring rock in preparation tor blasting when the explosion occurred. ,J. Newton, Government Inspector, said he was satisfied the men engaged in boring were competent, and 'that the cause of the fatality was a premature explosion of the gelignite. STOREROOAL DESTROYED. CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 1. At six o’clock to-night an outbreak of lire occurred in unoccupied business premises owned by Soulcr and Coy. in Duke Street, resulting in the destruction of a small adjoining storeroom, one wall of the. premises being badly burnt. Despite the westerly wind, the brigade prevented the lire spreading. Five hampers of samples were ready packed for removal, containing soft goods and fur coats, to the estimated value of £IOOO, in the storeroom, were totally destroyed. They were the property of Snrgood, Son and Ewen. The promises, which were among the oldest buildings in Cambridge, were insured for 0100 jn the New Zealand Office. It is not known whether the samples were covered by insurance. GROCERS’ A WARD. WELLINGTON. Nov. 1. The Wellington grocers’ assistants’ dispute was heard in the Conciliation Court to-day. The only alterations made in the award are in respect to wages and the proportion of juniors outside the radius of thirty miles trom the city. The wages represent a slight increase.

THEFT CHARGES. AUCKLAND, Nov. 1. Frank Leonard O'Donnell, :M. was charged with breaking and entering and theft from the premises of John Burns anil Co., and Samuel Howard. 00. and John Kyle. JO. were charged with removing tin, valued at £3O 15s. All were remanded, bail of £IOO each being required of Howard and Ivyle. CHARGE AGAINST BANKRUPT. WELLINGTON. Nov. 1. The jury, after a lengthy retirement, were unable to agree in the case where Alfred George Wallace, merchant, of Wellington, was charged in the Supreme Court, before Mr Justice MacGregor. with having, while a bankrupt, contracted debts without reasonable ex poctation of being able to pay them. A new trial was ordered for the next sitting of the Supreme Court in February.